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Forced mobilisation is gaining momentum in Russia. New cases of men being detained and subsequently sent to the war against Ukraine have been recorded in Udmurtia, the Krasnodar Krai, the Arkhangelsk Region, the Jewish Autonomous Region and Buryatia, according to the "Idite Lesom" project. In total, from 10 to 18 August, human rights activists received 14 reports from relatives of the victims. Men were taken from the street, from work, and after being detained by the police. One was seized as he was leaving a shop, another while returning from a class reunion, and a third was taken to a department allegedly for a document check.
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In Izhevsk, a man was detained on the street on 10 August and taken to the military enlistment office. Three days later, he was already being taken to a military unit in the Rostov region. In another case in Udmurtia, relatives were unable to prevent a man who was registered with a psychiatrist from being sent to the Donetsk region: the relevant insert disappeared from his military ID card, after which he was deregistered and forced to sign a contract.
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In Novorossiysk, a detainee was beaten at the police station and, according to his sister, drugs were planted on him. He was then offered a choice between a criminal case with a sentence of up to 20 years and being sent to war. In the end, he signed a contract and was taken to a military unit.
In the Arkhangelsk region, a man was detained for drinking alcohol in a public place. The next day, his relatives learned that he had signed a contract and was being prepared to be sent to war.
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A similar situation occurred with a 62-year-old man with health issues and an exemption from mobilisation obtained at work. According to his relatives, after his arrest, a passport and a military ID card were issued for him in a few hours so as not to let him go home to get his documents, and he was taken to Crimea.
Forced mobilisation also continues in Omsk. Human rights activists have reported at least two new cases. One man was taken straight from work and held at the department. In the end, according to his relatives, the police signed a contract for him. Another was stopped near a shop by people in civilian clothes under the pretext of a drug test, after which he was sent for a medical examination. The man claimed that he did not sign the contract, but he was still taken out of the region.
Earlier, there were reports of forced mobilisation in Penza and Ulyanovsk. "Ideite Lesom" advises relatives of detainees to find out their whereabouts as quickly as possible and to check the documents they have signed. The project also recommends documenting the circumstances of the detention, the names of officers, calls and correspondence, and seeking help before a person is sent to another region or military unit.
And yet they're still press-ganging people, so either they don't have that many poor and desperate as you think, or even the poor and desperate aren't so poor and desperate that they'd choose war over not.