Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Moscow students are reportedly being handed mobilisation orders along with their diplomas, literally at the very minute that their exemption from military service expires. This is happening at the same time that Russia is reportedly seeking 400,000 new soldiers. ⬇️

2/ The independent Russian news outlet Verstka reports that the Moscow Aviation Institute – a well-regarded university which feeds engineering graduates to Russia's aerospace industry – is refusing to give students their diplomas unless they agree to go to the enlistment office.

3/ "They don't issue a diploma until you sign a summons [to go to the military enlistment office]. The military commissar sits right in the office where they issue the diploma," one of the students says.

"Along with the diploma they require you to sign a contract at once.

4/ This is for those who have been studying for five and a half years as a specialist. They do not care, especially the Golovinskiy Military Registration and Enlistment Office, which does not dismiss summonses even if the temporary registration has expired."

5/ Another graduate, who went to the enlistment office but refused the offer of a contract, says: “They are trying to get people with higher education to sign a contract.

6/ And brazenly, you come to the military registration and enlistment office with this summons and they immediately say, go there and sign a contract."

7/ This appears to be a separate effort from the still-ongoing compulsory mobilisation. Russia is reported to be seeking 400,000 new volunteer professional ("contract") soldiers to replace the numerous troops it lost in the first phase of the war in Ukraine.

8/ However, recruiting highly trained engineering graduates for military service has obvious drawbacks – not least that it takes them out of the workforce for an extended period, further harming Russia's economy. /end

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