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☆ Senior Russian lawmakers express concern over Putin's mobilization drive 'excesses'
  + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Hyder Abbasi | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +5 min
Amid increasing public anger about Russia's mobilization drive, two of the country's most senior lawmakers ordered regional officials to solve the “excesses” that have stoked protests and seen flocks of military-age men attempt to flee. “Appeals are coming in,” Volodin, speaker of the Duma, Russia’s lower chamber of Parliament, said in a post Sunday. Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin in St. Petersburg in April. It said hundreds of people had been detained by police across Russia for protesting against the mobilization and the war. The territory controlled by Russian or Russian-backed forces in the four regions represents about 15% of Ukrainian territory.
☆ Complaints about Russia's chaotic mobilization grow
  + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Kevin Liffey | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register"It has been announced that privates can be recruited up to the age of 35. Reports have surfaced across Russia of men with no military experience or past draft age suddenly receiving call-up papers. "Some (recruiters) hand over the call-up papers at 2 a.m., as if they think we're all draft dodgers," he said. There has been a particular outcry among ethnic minorities in remote, economically deprived areas in Siberia, where Russia's professional armed forces have long recruited disproportionately. The interior ministry of the Russian region of North Ossetia advised people not to try to leave the country for Georgia at the Verkhny Lars frontier post, where it said 2,300 cars were waiting to cross.
☆ Putin announces partial mobilization of Russian military
  + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Yuliya-Talmazan-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Yuliya Talmazan | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +6 min
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the partial mobilization of his country’s military Wednesday, calling up military reservists in a significant escalation of his war in Ukraine after a series of setbacks that led to growing pressure on the Kremlin to act. Until now, Putin had resisted calls from nationalist supporters and pro-military bloggers for a general mobilization since launching his full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. The Kremlin has insisted that what it calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine is going according to plan, but military observers have said Russian forces are depleted and increasingly dispirited. It wasn’t clear if the proposed annexation would cover the entire territory of the provinces or only the areas currently occupied by Russian forces. “We are aware of reports that President Putin may be preparing to enact mobilization measures.
☆ Many Russians seek ways out as call-up orders arrive
  + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Caleb Davis | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
In St Petersburg, Pavel Chikov said recruitment offices had handed packs of conscription papers to homeowners' associations. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said the army was calling up people with experience of service and military "specialists" to fight in Ukraine. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterBut there was little clarity as to who these would be. In the city of Kursk, one woman married to a soldier said: "They're not letting people out of Kursk. read moreFor now, Shoigu said Russia would not call a general mobilisation, nor recruit students or send current conscripts to fight in Ukraine.
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