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| The logistics of the Kremlin's mobilization plan |
| 2022-09-22 |
| [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 |
| #6 If US/NATO was smart about it, they would be laying in guerilla and partisan warfare sets, and pushing them into Kherson, and the areas around Melitopol. Almost in a WW2 fashion. My understanding is that's already happening. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2022-09-22 20:24 |
| #5 According to Novaya Gazeta, classified 7th paragraph of Putin's decree on mobilisation put number of mobilised at 1 million |
| Posted by: Snash Shairt9621 2022-09-22 17:28 |
| #4 Quick Question: Where are the tanks coming from, aren't they already drawing down on T62's and some other reserve stored armored vehicles? And what about artillery, whis that coming from as well as the various support/technical vehicles and equipment that are needed to properly equip and support 300K new-ish soldiers coming from? The same goes for officers and unit cadres. If they just throw them into the fight, especially if they do it piecemeal as they trickle in, they will be decimated fairly quickly. If US/NATO was smart about it, they would be laying in guerilla and partisan warfare sets, and pushing them into Kherson, and the areas around Melitopol. Almost in a WW2 fashion. |
| Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 2022-09-22 17:21 |
| #3 ^ No problem. The same people who say anyone who questioned the last US election belongs in jail will question the votes in Ukraine. And see neither hypocrisy, irony nor inconsistency when they do it. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-09-22 14:15 |
| #2 The catch-22, the breakaways (LPR + DPR + Kherson + the other one I cant spell) they vote to join the Russia Federation sometime soon and that will make them Russian Territory which legally opens the door to move conscripts to the fronts. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2022-09-22 14:03 |
| #1 That's what I read, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said partial mobilization will affect 1% of 25 million who have combat experience. He also said, Those who are serving under conscription - it [mobilization] doesn't apply to them either, he said: "They are not subject to any mobilisation and direction for the 'special military operation... Our conscripts also continue to serve, as they did, on the territory of the Russian Federation." |
| Posted by: mossomo 2022-09-22 13:55 |