Russian President Vladimir Putin is using press gangs to kidnap unwilling army recruits off the street and drag them into the conflict in Ukraine.
To apprehend draft evaders, "conscript-catchers" conducted raids in Moscow and St. Petersburg. They even stopped a holiday flight to seize the co-pilot.
Russia's Mobilization Tactic
Face-recognition cameras have been used by teams of agents touring neighborhoods under the protection of dubious FSB operatives. On street corners, in metro stations, and next to apartment buildings, police thugs and enlistment officers wait to pounce.
According to reports, the armed recruiters even prowl offices looking for men for Putin's despised mobilization for the "meat grinder" war in Ukraine. Men of mobilization age were stranded by the entrance to the Polyustrovo Park residential complex in St. Petersburg while summonses were being delivered.
According to The Sun, summonses were delivered in bulk at subway stations in Moscow. Security goons interrogated male passengers, served some of them with call-up papers, and then whisked them away in police cars, according to eyewitnesses.
Tourists were detained for nine hours as a result of the first cop being enlisted by one of Putin's snatch gangs. After passengers had already boarded the AzurAir flight from Ufa in the Urals to Antalya in Turkey, the junior pilot was hauled away.
Vladimir Putin's most recent act of savagery and retaliation may have been motivated by his rage over the destruction of his iconic Crimean bridge. But the possibility of a horrifying new twist in a terrible war is also increased by his indiscriminate targeting of Ukrainian civilians, as per CNN.
On Monday, Russian missiles destroyed a major tourist attraction in Kyiv with a glass bottomed footbridge, destroyed busy junctions, and came down close to a playground. In strikes that echoed the terror inflicted on civilians in the early days of the invasion but that had largely subsided in recent months, power outages rolled throughout the nation, in some instances cutting off water supply and transit.
In advance of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's attendance at an urgent virtual conference of G7 leaders, Russian forces initiated further attacks on Tuesday, firing rockets at two energy installations in western Ukraine. The attacks stole away the appearance of normalcy that city people had managed to reestablish and stoked worries of further attacks after spending months earlier in the war in subways converted into air raid shelters.
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Russia-Ukraine War
The globe could clearly see the message. Putin does not want to be made to feel bad. He refuses to concede defeat. And in response to his record of defeats on the battlefield, he is very willing to cause civilian deaths and unleash widespread terror.
However, the targets on Monday were similarly of limited military significance and, if anything, helped to highlight Putin's need to identify fresh targets in light of his inability to humiliate Ukraine militarily.
The bombing of power plants in particular on Monday seemed to be an overt indication of the suffering the Russian President may bring about as winter approaches, despite the fact that his forces are retreating in the face of Ukrainian troops equipped with Western weapons.
With reports that two high-level officials have defected and are disclosing additional information about Russian war crimes and covert operations in Ukraine, there is more evidence of panic in Moscow's major military organizations tonight. A military commissar in charge of recruitment for Vladimir Putin's disorganized mobilization effort was discovered dead close to his home, prompting Russian authorities to open a murder investigation, Express reported.
Senior sources in Crimea, however, issued a warning tonight, saying that Russia remained unconvinced and was preparing to sanction the use of chemical weapons as part of a new offensive that will take place in conjunction with the G20 summit in Bali in November.
A senior mercenary with the Putin-supporting Wagner paramilitary group and a female FSB intelligence officer with operational knowledge of Russian troop movements are now reportedly in safe exile in France, where they have applied for political asylum.
According to Russian human rights activist Vladimir Osechkin, who made the defections public, the two defectors' information will both help assemble the case for war crimes against Vladimir Putin's war machine and aid Ukrainian forces in their counteroffensive in Donbas.
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