The men will be sent to the front when they receive full preparation
A day after announcing the mobilization of 300,000 reservists to fight in Ukraine, Russia begins to enlist them. Thousands of citizens from all over the country began yesterday to receive recruitment documents and this Thursday they have been put on buses to receive training, according to the newspaper ‘New York Times’. The calls began hours after the Kremlin chief’s speech, at the same time that thousands of other citizens fled the country by any means.
“They informed me that I had to report to the Rassvet CDC at 4 in the morning and here we are, waiting for the order,” says Vitaly, one of the recruits in Ulan-Ude, the capital of the Republic of Buryatia, in southern Siberia. . This man did military service in the Far East “a long time ago,” he stresses. Now 38 years old with two young children, he fears what lies ahead. According to the Russian media ‘Arigus’, the recruits will only be sent to the front when they acquire the necessary knowledge.
The military commissioner of the republic, Alexander Trubnikov, explains that citizens who have received a summons are obliged to appear at the collection point indicated in the letter. On the back of it he details the documents to carry: passport, military ID, toiletries and bank account details to receive the monetary allowance after being sent to a military unit. Then the training will proceed and “only after complete preparation, the acquisition of certain skills, will military personnel be sent on a combat mission,” Trubnikov ditches.
“A Peskov will not go to the front”
Despite the obligation to appear indicated by the Commissioner and the Russian Government, it seems that the rules are not for everyone. Or so Nikolai Peskov, son of Kremlin spokesman Dmitri, thinks. “Being a Peskov, it is not right for me to be there,” said the 32-year-old, referring to fighting on the front lines. Although his words were sincere, the call to recruit him was not. In a video that has gone viral, a blogger has a phone conversation with Nikolai in which he poses as an Army recruiter.
“A summons has been sent to you today,” says Dmitri Nizovtsev, host of ‘Popular Politics’, a YouTube channel created by members of the circle of imprisoned Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalni. “In it, there is a number that you have to call and tomorrow, at 10:00 in the morning, you have to report to a call center,” he continues live. Young Peskov, concerted for a moment, replies: «Obviously I won’t go. You must understand that, being a Peskov, it is not correct for me to be there».
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