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1/ Police officers from the Donetsk region have reportedly been rounded up and taken to Mariupol in preparation for deployment to the front line. Their wives are protesting that they have been taken under false pretences and that none of them have agreed to military service. ⬇️ 
2/ The ASTRA Telegram has published a video of a wife angrily protesting to 'Donetsk People's Republic' (DNR) officials. She says that her husband and employees of other municipal departments have been taken to a training ground in Mariupol for pre-deployment training.
3/ According to the man's wife, the policemen were told, "This is the last time you are training today, the commander is coming, and you are being taken to the first line of demarcation in the 'Cascade' battalion."
4/ She protests: "Why are they in 'Cascade'? None of them signed a contract.... You are a personnel officer, you understand, if Vasya Pupkin does not want to serve, he does not agree, they cannot force him, just like that, stupidly take and force him, like a dog, into some order.
5/ "Now they all want to write a resignation letter, according to the law on service in the Interior Ministry, they have the right to do so. Melnikov is now telling us that 'I'll put them in jail and they won't get out alive'".
6/ In response, an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs told the relatives that "training is underway at the training ground as part of professional training in case of a collision with a [Ukrainian] sabotage and reconnaisance group."
7/ The mobilisation of municipal employees appears to be taking place in several locations in the DNR. According to the 'Mobilisation DNR Live' channel, police officers from the town of Torez in the eastern Donetsk region were rounded up.
8/ The channel says that "their wives organised themselves and picked them up from their place of deployment. The men were then chased as deserters."
9/ More policemen are said to have been rounded up in Amvrosiyivka, south of Torez. There, Mobilisation DNR Live says, "about 30 women recaptured their men."
10/ The men are probably being deployed to reinforce Russian troops facing the Ukrainian counter-offensive. It's likely a sign of how serious the situation is for the Russians that they are mobilising even municipal employees to fight in southern Ukraine. /end
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