10,000 are all volunteers who didn't wait for call-up papers - Russian agencies
10,000 are all volunteers who didn't wait for call-up papers - Russian agencies
Newsweek: Russia's neighbors Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have all threatened their citizens with jail sentences if they join the Ukraine war, hours after Moscow announced it was opening a military recruitment center for foreign fighters.
"Russian President Vladimir Putin is himself giving directions directly to generals in the field, two sources familiar with US and western intelligence said"
Reportedly video of mobilized men at the Sokol airport in Magadan loading onto An-12 aircraft.
Putin's #mobilization self-own: Employees at the Khrunichev State Space Research and Production Center in #Moscow (you know - rockets, missiles, ICBMs) are getting conscripted. The staff of this strategic plant is freaking out.
Congress tells Pentagon to speed review of large drones for Ukraine
“It’s not a partial mobilisation, it’s a 100% mobilisation.” Midnight summons, vodka-fueled farewells, and showdowns at the draft centers. Russia says it’s recruiting 300,000 but the real number could be 3x higher.
Given how insane this is... makes one wonder if this is part of the sabotage of mobilization being conducted by the FSB.
Meanwhile, it only took a few hours for another group of mobilised Russians to get dead drunk. "What are we going for? Where are going? F*ck knows!", one concludes.
This also comes as the Estonian Ministry of Defense has ordered Snap Military-Readiness Exercises on its Border with the Russian Federation, these Exercises as set to include multiple units from the Estonian Reserve Army.
Full steam ahead... Update: The Pentagon: Putin's threat of possible use of nuclear weapons will not affect our aid to Ukraine.
Mobilization in Makhachkala in full swing.
U.S. is taking "seriously" Putin's veiled threats to use nuclear weapons to defend areas in Ukraine: NSC spox Kirby
In Moscow, men in the street are simply stopped, handed military summonses, asked to show their passports and checked against the database.
#Geolocation of this video showing a cleric blessing(?) a Russian army formation. Location is Vlasikha--home of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces near Moscow: 55.68452542201098, 37.19710146098129
"When the one with the rifle gets killed, the one who is following picks up the rifle and SHOOTS!"
Ukraine war: Russian-occupied areas hold 'referendums'