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☆ A Russian man who was called up to fight in Ukraine shot an official at a local enlistment office, reports say
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A Russian man shot the head of a local military draft committee in Siberia on Monday, reports said. A video of the incident shared online shows an official collapsing on stage after a shot rings out. The gunman was detained and the official is in critical condition, the reports said. The video shows two military officials on stage in front of a group of new recruits who had been called up to fight in the ongoing war in Ukraine, The Insider reported. Suddenly, a gunshot rings out and one of the officials collapses as everyone else runs out of the enlistment in panic, the video shows.

☆ Putin ally admits he created the Wagner mercenary group linked to wartime atrocities: 'I cleaned old weapons myself'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Yevgeny Prigozhin admitted to founding the Wagner mercenary firm in 2014. "I cleaned old weapons myself," the billionaire, known as "Putin's chef," said in a statement. Prigozhin previously denied founding the group and sued those who reported on his Wagner ties. "From that moment, on May 1, 2014, a group of patriots was born, which later acquired the name PMC Wagner." Timothy Lay, a coauthor of the report, told Insider that Wagner's actions — including widespread looting — were akin to "criminal violence."

☆ Russia expected to ban men of military age from leaving the country as thousands try to flee Putin's call-up, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia is expected to stop men of military age from leaving the country, according to Meduza. Russian men have tried to flee the country since Vladimir Putin announced partial military mobilization. Current laws permit Russian men up to 40 and foreigners up to 30 to serve in the military. The ban would allow a small number of men of conscription age to leave the country only after procuring "exit visas," Meduza reported. To get these visas, men of military age would have to seek permission from enlistment offices, the media outlet said.

☆ Putin allies express concern over mobilisation 'excesses'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Governor of the Novgorod region Andrei Nikitin in the city of Veliky Novgorod, Russia, September 21, 2022. Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Pool via REUTERS/File PhotoSept 25 (Reuters) - Russia's two most senior lawmakers on Sunday addressed a string of complaints about Russia's mobilisation drive, ordering regional officials to get a handle on the situation and swiftly solve the "excesses" that have stoked public anger. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterRussia's top two parliamentarians, both close Putin allies, explicitly addressed public anger at the way the mobilisation drive was unfolding. Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the State Duma, Russia's lower chamber, also expressed concern in a separate post. The Kremlin has twice denied it actually plans to draft more than one million, following two separate reports in independent Russian media outlets.

☆ Russia drafted an old man with diabetes, a 17-year-old, and people with no training to fight in Ukraine, reports say — a sign of desperation
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial military mobilization on Wednesday, pledging to call up 300,000 people, but only from Russia's existing pool of military reservists. A 63-year-old man from the Volgograd region was also drafted as part of the mobilization, the independent Russian news site The Insider reported. The man, identified only as Yermolaev, has second-degree diabetes and a brain condition known as cerebral ischemia, The Insider reported. One man from Buryatia, a mountainous region in eastern Siberia, told The Insider that recruitment officers are "combing through the villages." There are 400 people in our village, and they took 20 men," the man, who was not named, told The Insider.

☆ Secret clause in Putin's mobilization decree may allow him to draft up to 1 million reservists, an independent Russian outlet reports
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( John Haltiwanger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A secret clause in Putin's mobilization decree allows one million to be called up, a new report says. The Kremlin denied the report, maintaining that 300,000 reservists will be drafted. The West says Putin's partial mobilization shows he's failing in Ukraine. The Pentagon in August said the US estimates the Russian military has seen up to 80,000 casualties in the war so far. Western leaders and officials said Putin's decision to announce a partial mobilization stood as an acknowledge that Russia is "losing" or "failing" in Ukraine.

Starting in 2012, the year Mr. Putin retook the presidency, Roskomnadzor built a blacklist of websites that the companies were required to block. In 2021, authorities throttled access to the social media service to a crawl. It gathered information about government critics and identified shifting political opinions on social media. watch opponents and identify new threats to Mr. Putin, Mr. Voronin said. In the records, censors flagged ProUfu.ru for the critical Ukraine editorial written about Mr. Putin in February.

☆ Pranksters called the son of one of Putin's closest allies and told him he is being enlisted in the army — but he refused
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Pranksters called up the son of a top Kremlin official and said he had been enlisted in the army. Dmitry Peskov's son said he did not intend to go and will resolve the issue "on a different level." The hosts of the Russian YouTube channel Popular Politics called the 32-year-old son of Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday. the younger Peskov told the pranksters, according to a video shared by independent Russian news website The Insider. When he returned to Russia from his studies in the UK, Peskov served in the Russian army from 2010 to 2012, the news site Kommersant reported.

☆ Legendary Russian pop star condemns the invasion of Ukraine, saying it is making Russia a 'pariah'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Iconic Russian singer Alla Pugacheva has condemned the war in Ukraine. She asked to be designated a "foreign agent," like her husband, a comedian who has also spoken out. Russian singer Alla Pugacheva in 1987. Galkin was named a foreign agent under Russian law on Friday, according to independent Russian news site Meduza. Russia's "foreign agent" law was introduced in 2012.

☆ How the Russian officer elite was decimated in Ukraine – 29 generals and commanders who were killed in action
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-01 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

Vitaly GerasimovMaj. Gen. Vitaly Gerasimov became the second senior Russian commander reported to be killed after Ukrainian military intelligence claimed he was shot dead in Kharkiv. Ivan GrishinColonel Ivan Grishin, commander of Russia's 49th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade, died in Ukraine, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Vyacheslav SavinovLieutenant Colonel Vyacheslav Savinov, who headed Russian artillery intelligence, was killed in Ukraine, a Russian artillery school confirmed. A damaged Russian military vehicle is seen after Russian Forces withdrawal as Russia-Ukraine war continues in Izium, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine on September 14, 2022. The Ukrainian military said that Botashev was killed when a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft was shot down over the Lugansk region.

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