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Putin and Shoygu's plan in disarray. They won't raise their army of "disposable soldiers"
They were referred to as "disposable soldiers" because, on the battlefield in Ukraine, a Russian recruit can usually be sent into battle only once - he is killed or wounded immediately afterwards. Russian conscripts on a massive scale avoid being called to the army. From this year's plan to appoint 150,000 of young people under arms, Russian military officials have implemented only 26 percent.
Spring conscription to the Russian army has failed. Young Russians are avoiding vocations en masseSource: East News , photo: Pool Sputnik Kremlin
- Spring conscription soldiers will not be sent for a special operation in Ukraine. They will serve in Russia, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu assured back in April.
Spring conscription to the army was then announced . In less than two weeks, several stories have been discovered that contradict his words. Yegor Szkrebets, a Crimean cook who had been incorporated into the Russian navy shortly before, died on the destroyed Russian cruiser Moscow.
His father, Dmitry, alerted the local media and publicly inquired about how it happened that a conscript immediately entered the service on a warship. The soldier's father was contacted by other parents looking for their sons, who had been called up for military service and lost in Ukraine.
A similar story was publicized in the media in Dagestan. Arsen Khachajbragimov and Karib Sultalijew were to serve in the Belogrod Oblast on the border with Ukraine. Ultimately, they found their way to the Ukrainian front. The military promised Khachaybragimov's mother that he would return to service in Russia, but this did not happen until June 20, the local newspaper Chernovik reported.
Panic in Russia. There will be no conscripted army
- Due to the distrust of Russian propaganda and military officials, the spring conscription campaign completely failed. Russian conscripts are hiding from summons to serve, they are leaving the country, writes Petro Burkowski, journalist of the Ukrainian Media Detektor service. He estimates that
despite the plan to appoint 150,000 less than 40,000 recruits joined the Russian army. men (26 percent of the plan). Conscription is expected to end on July 15. This means that Russia will not quickly gather forces which, after training, would join the ranks of the fighting in Ukraine.
Media Detector based its report on official communications from the Russian district military commissions. Here are some examples: in Samara, out of 3200 conscripts, 100 showed up for the service. In the Voronezh region (close to Ukraine), out of the planned 2800 callings, about one hundred were entered into service. Orenburg and Saratov provided around 400-500 recruits - one fifth of what was planned. The head of the draft commission in the city of Nizhny Novgorod boasted about the implementation of the conscription plan at 44 percent. In turn, in the republic of Tula, every third recruit went to the army.
The Magnitogorsk administration did not give the numbers, but the official Grigory Kosenok at a press conference threatened that evaders would pay 3,000. penalty rubles. - These are people who have received several summons and still avoid coming to the military station. Without a certificate of completion of service, they will not find legal work, he said.
- According to our information,
the Russians have huge problems with recruiting to the army. Already in the first days and weeks of the war, many young people of recruiting age left the country, for example, for Georgia. Those who remained in Russia are now doing everything possible to avoid being drafted into the army , says WP Irakli Komaxidze, an analyst at InformNapalm, which analyzes the Russian media and describes the backstage of the war in Ukraine.
He estimates that the funerals of the Russian "heroes and liberators of Ukraine" took place even in such distant and small communities as Chukotka (the north-eastern corner of Russia). Therefore, conscripts have a feeling that being called to a military commission is a risk of death or injury in Ukraine.
Who are "disposable soldiers"?
The Russian commanders themselves call the new recruits "disposable soldiers." This is because, as inexperienced, they usually die or get wounded on the first task. The wording became known when the Ukrainian intelligence overheard the conversation of Russian officers from the front in Donbas. "Drop 40 more disposables here, drop 50 more disposables there," ordered one.
The "disposable soldiers" are, apart from the Russians, the inhabitants of the occupied territories in Crimea, Kherson, and the vicinity of Lugansk and Donetsk, who are forcibly enlisted. 30 trucks with "disposable" vehicles are to be delivered to the front in Donbas daily.
- I do not see any chances for a quick reconstruction of the human potential of the Russian army. In Ukraine, they executed experienced non-commissioned officers, the core of the front-line officers. Rebuilding the morale of such a beaten and scarred army is a task for years, not - several weeks of preparation - said the Polish Army Col. res. Andrzej Kruczyński from the Institute of Social Security, former GROM officer, participant in missions in Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq.
According to the Ukrainian media, Russian conscripts are escaping e.g. to Montenegro, where there is a center for "military age refugees". Boys from the intelligentsia houses of St. Petersburg and Moscow are to go there. As the center's founder reported, "they do not want to fight, they believe that Putin's team are old men who drag the country into a bloody conflict."
Parallel to the conscription in Russia, contact soldiers are being recruited for the war in Ukraine. It is also supposed to be reluctant, because mostly contract soldiers refuse to extend the contract. To break this resistance, Russian governors and mayors are racing to promise volunteers extra money and various bonuses. For example, the wives of the soldiers of the Rosguard unit could benefit from free mammography, visits to the gynecologist and gastroenterologist. In turn, the children of the soldiers of the 106th Airborne Division will go to the Black Sea colonies for free.
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