A local official said, on Monday, that the head of military recruitment in a Russian region in the Far East has been suspended, after thousands of people were mistakenly called up to fight in Ukraine.
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The Military Commissar of the Khabarovsk Region, Yuri Laiko, was suspended from his duties. “This will not have any impact on the goal that the president has set for us,” Governor Mikhail Degtyarov said in a video on Telegram.
He did not say the exact reason for this comment, but implied that it was related to several errors.
Within ten days, several thousand of our compatriots received summonses and went to military police stations. “We sent half of them home because they did not meet the selection criteria to join the military,” the governor said.
According to a military spokesman, quoted by RIA Novosti, the suspended soldier was transferred to the same center in the Magadan region, where the current military commissioner was dismissed last week due to errors during mobilization.
The TASS news agency quoted an official in Yakutia, a vast region in eastern Siberia, about 300 men were mistakenly mobilized and sent home.
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On September 21, Vladimir Putin ordered a “partial” mobilization to fight in Ukraine, where the Russian army is having difficulty. Officially, it should interest 300,000 reservists with military experience or useful skills.
But multiple cases of mobilization of elderly people, students, patients or conscripts without military experience have been reported, which sparked resentment and the reaction of the authorities.
Last week, Vladimir Putin demanded a “correction of errors” in the mobilization, which has also led to demonstrations in Russia and the flight of thousands of men abroad.
Anti-mobilization rallies in particular were held in Dagestan, an impoverished region of the Russian Caucasus with the highest number of dead soldiers in Ukraine, according to death notices posted online.
And in the Dagestani town of Derbent, cars recently circulated with loudspeakers calling on all men, without distinction, to report to the authorities to mobilize, according to videos posted on social media.
In response, Derbent’s military commissioner, Farid Musaev, apologized last Thursday in a video clip on the municipality’s account on Telegram, and assured that officials who spread these “wrong” messages would be punished.
