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The logistics of the Kremlin's mobilization plan
[Meduza] Meduza has learned from sources close to the Kremlin and to the leadership of several Russian regions that responsibility for carrying out Russia’s newly announced mobilization will fall primarily to regional governors. According to the sources, the federal authorities, including the Defense Ministry, plan to give the governors approximate numbers of people to be sent to the war in Ukraine.A source close to the Putin administration told Meduza that the basic procedure for the upcoming mobilization has already been determined. According to the plan, many Russians will be summoned to their enlistment offices in a just a matter of days. "[First,] they’ll call them in to verify their data. [Then] they’ll insistently propose that people sign contracts voluntarily. They’ll successfully manage to pressure quite a few people by mentioning the new articles in the Criminal Code, among other things. Not everyone is legally literate. And those who don’t agree will be released and then mobilized later — and that time, it won’t be voluntary," said the source. In addition, according to Meduza’s sources, the Kremlin intends to use mobilization to fix personnel shortages in the "military civil administrations'' they've set up in Ukraine’s occupied territories. While many ambitious officials from Russia’s regions were willing to travel to the Donbas, the Kherson region, and the Zaporizhzhia region earlier in the war, the number of volunteers "greatly diminished" after Ukraine’s successful counteroffensive and the deaths of multiple Russian-backed occupation officials. A source close to the Kremlin said the following: Now things will be simpler. If you call a [reluctant] official to the enlistment office, he won’t be able to evade [his appointment]. He’ll be given a simple choice: "You have an in-demand officer’s education after graduating from a university’s military department or serving in the army, and you’re being drafted. But there’s another option: you can work as a housing official in Kherson or Melitopol. Sound good? State corporations, as well as "government-adjacent" companies, will help regional governments with the mobilization process. A source close to the leadership of one state company told Meduza that businesses have already been given "approximate guidelines" as to how many employees will need to be mobilized, and that these numbers amount to about one percent of the total number of employees on reserve. (Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said that Russia’s "partial mobilization" will affect "300,000 reserve troops" out of the full 25-million-person "mobilization reserve.") Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 2022-09-22 |
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