All ways are kosher for recruiting in Russia, including chasing people in the streets. Documentation from St. Petersburg shows conscription officers chasing a man trying to escape, they catch him and he will almost certainly be sent to the battlefield
A man in Russia tried to escape from recruiters who came to take him for conscription in Russia’s bloody war in Ukraine. He was captured after a chase by Putin’s military police.
Video taken from an apartment block in St. Petersburg shows the man fleeing after conscription officers showed up at his home. They have been recorded capturing him and he will almost certainly be sent to the battlefield. The video was shot in an apartment block in St. Petersburg.
Running through traffic, the man manages to avoid two policemen and is almost hit by a car, but two more catch up to him and stop him. Now he is due to be sent to a training camp and could find himself fighting and dying on the Ukrainian front in just a few weeks.
Putin ordered a partial mobilization last month, 300,000 men are to be sent to the battlefield. Many men, mostly from rural areas of Russia, were put on buses and taken to training camps. Although their families were told they would be matched for several months before going into battle, notifications of the deaths of some of them began reaching families after only a few weeks, the Daily Mail reports.
Putin’s conscript catchers chase draft-dodger through the streets of St Petersburg https://t.co/rm27sRffMa
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) October 17, 2022
Ukraine claims to have killed 65,000 Russian soldiers and disabled more than 2,500 tanks, 5,000 armored vehicles and hundreds of planes and helicopters. The Pentagon estimated as early as August that 80,000 Russians had been killed or wounded, or about half the force with which Putin originally invaded. The Russian Ministry of Defense implausibly claims that only 5,937 of its soldiers died, contradicting the recruitment of 300,000 more.