Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged 'mistakes' in the mobilization process on Thursday, and said anyone who was called up despite not meeting the draft criteria “must be sent home.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged "mistakes" in the
on Thursday, and said anyone who was called up despite not meeting the draft criteria “must be sent home.”70% of Russians say they felt fear or alarm as a result of Putin's partial mobilization, and 66% believe full mobilization is possible, according to the independent pollster. The proportions of Russians believing the war isn't going well and wanting peace talks also increased in the new poll.draft officers who drove through the city of Derbent demanding that "all male citizens" report to a conscription center. Describing them as "morons," he asked, "Who authorized them?"
Dagestan has reportedly suffered disproportionate casualties in the war, and Putin's mobilization order sparked unrest in The North Caucasus.Alexander Baunov of the Carnegie Endowment describes Putin's Russia as a "country of fences," where citizens sacrifice political rights for security, but keep a fence around their private lives.
Putin has now breached that fence — and violated his "unwritten contract" — by taking "husbands, sons, brothers into the army," Baunov says., street protests in Russian cities are still mainly limited to a small pro-Western, anti-war segment of the population, he says.
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