Amid increasing public anger about Russia's mobilization drive, two of the country's most senior lawmakers ordered regional officials to solve the “excesses” that have stoked protests and seen flocks of military-age men attempt to flee.
The country's forces then drove farther into the contested Russian proxy-controlled, forcing the Kremlin’s units to fall back quickly, losing soldiers and military hardware.
There have also been multiple reports that people with no military service have been issued with draft papers, despite Shoigu guaranteeing that only those with special military skills or combat experience would be called up. “Such excesses are absolutely unacceptable. And, I consider it absolutely right that they are triggering a sharp reaction in society,” she said in a post on Telegram.
A Russian officer checks the temperature of recruits as they lineup to be registered at a military recruitment center in Volgograd, Russia, on Saturday.The editor in chief of Russia's state-run RT news channel, Margarita Simonyan, also expressed frustration over how the mobilization was being carried out on Saturday.
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