Russia is now taking a new measure to recruit more people for the army. According to a media report, male employees of state-owned companies are laid off if they can be dispensed with. However, they should not be used at the front.
According to a media report by Novaya Gazeta Europe, some state-owned companies in Russia have been commissioned to lay off male employees between the ages of 18 and 60. They are to undergo “military retraining” and be deployed to the Russian military.
Accordingly, the instructions come directly from authorities in the region around Saint Petersburg. Russian government officials should first ask the companies how many employees are expendable. Then notices of convocation should be published.
According to a representative of the recruiting office, the men were at local drafting stations the very next day. According to him, they are not sent to the front, but are needed for the “repair of equipment” that arrives from Ukraine.
A correspondent for the independent news site tells of 20 selected men who left the town of Gatchina south of Saint Petersburg on Thursday.
According to his own statements, one of them was convened without notice. This is how he describes the admissions process: “On August 1st, when I wasn’t at work, my bosses had visitors. They would have been instructed to send him to the draft office the next day. I come in, they give me the summons and tell me that I have to come to the office tomorrow, from where I will be taken to a military unit. You didn’t say which one. […] They just told us that we will not go to Ukraine.”
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