The partial recruitment in Russia has begun - and with it the chaos has also begun:
now it is not just about the long lines of citizens trying to escape through border crossings to the neighboring countries or in a panic for plane tickets to destinations open to citizens of the Russian Federation;
In the last day there were also occasional signs of agitation against the draft.
Thus, alongside photographs of the first recruits boarding the buses on their way to training, cases of opposition to recruitment were also uploaded to the web.
In the Republic of Dagestan in the North Caucasus, a highway was blocked to traffic.
Roadblock in Dagestan // Telegram channel Sprosite u Rasula
In another document, also from Dagestan, men gather near a local recruiting office and argue with the employee of the place.
She screamed at them, "My son has been fighting inside Ukraine since February, if necessary - I will go fight too," the worker tells one of the men, "My grandfather also fought so you can eat white bread."
The man replies to her: "My grandfather also fought for our homeland."
Another man agrees and says: "Back then (in 1941, during the Wehrmacht's invasion of the USSR; DD) it was war. Now it's just politics."
The office clerk throws to those present: "We are fighting for the future" - and hears in response: "What future? We don't even have a present."
Confrontation with a recruiter in Dagestan // Social networks
The Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) and the cult surrounding it were and still are the cornerstones of the Putin regime, on which the invasion of Ukraine was also based, which was defined in terms of a struggle against the Nazis, as in Moscow they define the rule in Kiev.
A confrontation as in the documentation provides initial evidence from the field that the official narrative has cracked for wider circles of the population, or at least that the fear of publicly challenging it has decreased.
The police in the city of Delnarchansk announces the recruitment // Social networks
But the unrest surrounding the recruitment does not end only with protests and attempts by tens of thousands to escape.
In just the last day, there were three attempts to set fire to recruiting offices - in the Orenburg region of Kazakhstan, in the city of Nizhny Novgorod east of Moscow, and in St. Petersburg.
An attempt to set fire to a recruiting office in St. Petersburg, photo: social networks
At the same time, there are also cases of delivery of conscription orders to those who are supposed to be completely exempt from service.
Thus, for example, Minister Shoigu and other security officials claimed that only reservists with relevant professions would be recruited, with an emphasis on those with experience, but already today the first cases of the violation of the guidelines were revealed.
Thus, a video of a high-tech man from Moscow, Vitaly Bogreiv (32), who was called to report even though he had never served in the army, let alone lacked combat experience, is circulating on Telegram news channels.
In another case, a father of five from Buryatia was called to the flag, although the law prohibits the conscription of fathers of four or more children.
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"In practice, it is possible to raise up to a million", photo: IPA
Meanwhile, the website "Novaya Gazeta. Europe" revealed that the presidential order regarding the partial recruitment allows the Kremlin to recruit more than 300 thousand people, which are officially required.
In the order, which was published on the official websites, section 7 appeared, called "for administrative purposes", but an official in the Kremlin told "Novaya" that the secret section allows the recruitment of one million people.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied the publication.
"It's a lie," Peskov told the state news agency RIA.
However, commentators in Russia mentioned that Pskov previously also denied the intention to conduct a recruitment - the last time about a week before the announcement about it.
Another question is whether the Kremlin really intends to risk a large and unpopular recruitment, and furthermore - what will it arm the hundreds of thousands of new soldiers with.
The reason: Russia does not have enough helmets and weapons for the soldiers of the regular army either, as is revealed time and time again in the campaign in Ukraine.
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