KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO — SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2022, 18:51
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has stated that the Russian command sends newly mobilized soldiers directly to the front line without any training to replenish units that have suffered losses.
Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, information from 18:00 on September 25
Quote: “The command of the Russian occupying forces sends newly mobilized soldiers without any training directly to the front line to replenish units that have suffered losses.
This has a significant effect on lowering the morale of Russian military personnel and the quality of the performance of their duties.”
Details: The General Staff also reported that Russian recruitment agencies have been working around the clock since September 22, and those who try to avoid mobilization are threatened with criminal liability.
In Sevastopol in the temporarily occupied Crimea, about a thousand convocation letters have been distributed to conscripted men. Representatives of the occupying forces assure the mobilized personnel that their service will take place in the temporarily occupied territory of Kherson Oblast until the so-called “special operation” is over.
Later, Mediazona, an independent Russian news channel, reported that the wife of one of the recently mobilized men from Lipetsk said he was sent to the front after only one day of training.
Tatyana Dotsenko said her 45-year-old husband, Andrey Kozyrev, received a call at 5 a.m. on September 22. Two hours later, at 7:00 AM, he went to the military service office. “Around 10:30, two buses [carrying mobilised reservists] left for Belgorod Oblast [Russia]’ explains Dotsenko.
She said the training only lasted one day. On Sunday, September 25, her husband told her that he was being sent to the front. “A thousand of them [are being sent to the front]. There wasn’t even a medical exam,” she added.
Background:
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Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the “partial” mobilization in his speech to the Russians on the morning of September 21.
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Officially, 300,000 reservists are called up. It later emerged that the mobilization decree contains a secret paragraph that allows the Russian Defense Ministry to hire one million people.
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