On Russia's mobilization kerfuffles.
@Annatar_I has pointed out that Russia didn't have a reservist system as such from 1991 to August 2021.
(Incidentally, that's just one month after Putin's article "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians" en.kremlin.ru/events/preside…
@Annatar_I has pointed out that Russia didn't have a reservist system as such from 1991 to August 2021.
(Incidentally, that's just one month after Putin's article "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians" en.kremlin.ru/events/preside…
Which is yet another piece of evidence that the decision to go to war with Ukraine was only made in summer 2021, but I digress.)
Anyhow, all that Russia really has is a list of ~25M names of people who served in the military or did military courses in university.
Anyhow, all that Russia really has is a list of ~25M names of people who served in the military or did military courses in university.
Moreover, military commissariat workers are not exactly the cream of the crop.
Hence the calling up of students, engineers in missile assembly plants, other non-eligibles, etc. It's a bureaucratic nightmare, but one that's generally resolved when the mobilized reach their units.
Hence the calling up of students, engineers in missile assembly plants, other non-eligibles, etc. It's a bureaucratic nightmare, but one that's generally resolved when the mobilized reach their units.
This Rybar post on how mobilization is going seems representative: t.me/rybar/39263
I do not consider claims of mobilization being heavily loaded towards ethnic minority republics likely to be true. The West and Ukraine has an open (and logical) agenda of trying to incite dissatisfaction and separatism amongst Russian minorities. Take with a grain of salt.
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