Yesterday five searches were conducted for people who never showed up for enlistment in an area of Moscow yesterday.
According to the Russian telegram publication Bazabazon, the servicemen are “young people, who, in the spring and autumn campaigns, received summons for military service, but did not appear at the Moscow military registration and enlistment offices and did not provide any documents in their defense.”
People are arrested for this kind of evasion in Russia under a criminal law which threatens soldiers with fines and in the worst case scenarios can end up in two years in prison.
This month, Ukraine’s military intelligence claimed Russia is set to call upon an additional 500,000 conscripts this month on top of the 300,000 Russia tried to mobilise in October.
A Ukrainian military chief said the mobilised troops wil make up a large offensive over spring and summer.
