Correspondent in Moscow
Vladimir Putin himself conceded this, Thursday evening, before his Security Council
: “This mobilization raises many questions.
We must correct all errors and ensure that they do not happen again.”
Remarks, broadcast on television, and intended to respond to the growing dissatisfaction of the population with the often chaotic summons of the conscripts.
Mobilization of the elderly, students, the sick or recruits without military experience, all supposed to be exempted: Russian social networks are overflowing with testimonies on the incongruities of the largest call-up - officially 300,000 men - that the country has known since World War II.
Friday, a report on the federal channel Perviy Kanal showed mobilized in training, confident and well equipped.
But videos testify to very different realities depending on the region and to glaring deficiencies.
Mobilized people were advised…
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