Is the next wave of mobilization already underway in Russia?

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“It could be a long process,” Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, 70, said in December of the war in Ukraine.

This is how it looks at the moment: the Russians have not been able to make any significant territorial gains for months. Countless soldiers die at the front every day. Putin is gradually running out of his fighters.

Now there are increasing signs of further mobilization in Russia. Summonses were issued to conscripts in St. Petersburg. According to the independent Russian-language news portal Meduza, students in the Russian capital Moscow will also be drafted into the army.

«Restrictive measures»

In the first wave of mobilization, the conscripts in the major cities of Western Russia were largely spared for political reasons; instead, poor areas such as eastern Russian Buryatia were called out disproportionately. This now seems to be changing.

In St. Petersburg, the summonses are explicitly threatened with serious consequences if they do not appear. Grigory Swerdlin (43), head of the anti-war initiative Go by the Forest, reported this on Facebook on Wednesday.

Sverdlin had posted a subpoena addressed to a St. Petersburg resident. “Danger! If you do not report to a military recruiting agency within the specified time, you will be subject to restrictive measures,” the letter said.

The target is students in apartment buildings

At the same time, Meduza published a report describing how a student in Moscow was taken directly to the recruiting office by three police officers. The student reportedly wrote to his acquaintances after the incident: “I will be drafted into the army.” Since then, contact has been broken.

Not an isolated case, reports an anonymous human rights activist. The government should pay particular attention to students living in student houses. Police officers and agents went door to door handing out subpoenas.

Summons recipients are not allowed to leave Russia

The subpoenas come just two weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin, 70, signed a law allowing military subpoenas to be sent electronically. The law greatly restricts the rights of conscripts. Summons recipients are not allowed to leave Russia until they report to a draft board.

Several tens of thousands of conscripts had been called up during previous waves of mobilization. Many of them have since been killed or wounded in battle.

Source: Blick