Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Thousands of Russian men are reportedly being summoned to military recruitment offices, likely in connection with an announced target of recruiting an additional 400,000 professional soldiers. However, it may not yet be a true second mobilisation.
news.yahoo.com/russian-army-r…

2/ People in various parts of Russia are reporting that they have received orders summoning them for "background checks" to "verify their data", according to the independent media outlet Verstka.

3/ Authorities in Russia's Voronezh region have announced that they will issue summons "at citizens' places of residence and work". According to a source, people summoned for "background checks" will be asked to go to fight in Ukraine as volunteers, but are allowed to refuse.

4/ The Russian military hopes to make up for the loss of personnel in scarce capacities such as artillerymen and armoured vehicle operators but does not exclude the possibility of recruiting "desperate people, marginal people who have nothing to lose".

5/ According to Verstka's source in Voronezh, "It will be the same story, all over the country. We simply decided to warn people in advance." The Russian human rights activist Pavel Chikov says that summonses have been issued in 42 regions of the country.

6/ However, Chikov does not believe that this is an actual second wave of mobilisation. Instead, he suggests, the military authorities "are updating information to replenish the unified electronic database of conscripts."

7/ The first mobilisation in September 2022 was severely hindered by bad data – records were out of date, held only in paper format and were not unified across Russian government agencies. This led to many well-publicised problems with ineligible people being mobilised.

8/ To address this issue, the Russian government has been working on digitising records, linking government databases and creating a single unified database on everyone who is eligible for mobilisation (see the thread below).

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1627295158516559873

9/ The Russian presidential spokesman Dmitriy Peskov has said that the current activity is "common practice – work is under way, data should be clarified." He has denied that there have been any discussions of a further mobilisation.

10/ The latter is very likely untrue – the entire point of the current database work is to make a new mobilisation much more efficient. /end

Sources:
t.me/svobodnieslova…
t.me/megapolis_ugra…
t.me/pchikov/5463
t.me/pchikov/5464
t.me/news_sirena/12…