Raids for forced recruitment into the Russian army have been intensified in Penza, Russia
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In Penza and the Penza region of Russia, according to reports from local residents and Russian opposition projects, police and military enlistment office employees are conducting mass rounds on men. According to them, those detained are being forced to sign contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry for further sending to the war against Ukraine.
This is reported by Russian media.
It is noted that on June 17, a video appeared on social networks showing men in military uniform being forcibly pushed into a minibus near the military registration and enlistment office in the Zhovtnevy and Zaliznychny districts of Penza. According to local media, the video was filmed on Skladskaya Street, where detainees are taken after raids. In the footage, women are trying to block the car.
According to local residents, the raids are taking place in various areas of Penza. They claim that police are stopping cars and public transport, and men are being taken from the streets, workplaces and their own cars and taken to military registration and enlistment offices.
Other media outlets published a message from their subscriber, who claims that men are being sent en masse to military registration and enlistment offices to sign contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defense.
According to journalists, the raids have caused panic in Penza. Local residents are exchanging information in chat rooms about the locations of the raids and claiming that local media is not reporting on them.
According to eyewitnesses, similar raids are also taking place in Kamianets-Podilskyi and Kuznetsk in the Penza region, where military, police, and traffic police officers are setting up checkpoints and stopping traffic. Unconfirmed reports are also circulating in local chat rooms about an alleged plan for security forces to recruit 1,500 people.
The head of the Center for the Study of Occupation, Petro Andryuschenko, stated that in Penza, a forceful “busification” with forced signing of contracts has actually been launched.
“This indicates an acute shortage of personnel in the Russian army,” Andryuschenko said.
According to Radio Liberty, one of the residents of Penza reported that such raids began in January, but recently they have significantly intensified.
By the way, a new wave of forced mobilization in Russia is unlikely to help the Kremlin improve the situation at the front and may further worsen the condition of the Russian army.
Earlier, it was reported that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia is preparing additional mobilization to increase the occupation group in Ukraine.
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