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Oct 16 6 tweets 1 min read
1/ A 57-year-old baker with no military experience has been recruited by the Russian military to work as an army doctor, according to the "Watch out for the news" (ON) Telegram channel. Translation follows. ⬇️
2/ ON reports: "A 57-year-old father of three children, who works as a baker, is being mobilised as a doctor in the Sverdlovsk Region.

Sergey Karelin, a resident of Verkhnyaya Sinyachih, was served a summons on 13 September.
3/ According to his niece, the military enlistment office was interested in the education of a hygienist-epidemiologist. The man was told that all doctors have the right to mobilize before the age of 60.
4/ However, Karelin has not worked in his profession for a long time, and in recent years he has been working in the local bakery. He has never served in the military, having only studied in the military department of his university and received the rank of Junior Lieutenant.
5/ According to the official criteria of the Ministry of Defense, he should not be drafted. The man is now at home and is expected at the enlistment office next week, after which he will be sent for training.
6/ Karelin's wife and three children, two of them minors, are staying at home."

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