❗ The sixth day of the “partial mobilization” announced by putin on September 21 showed that, despite the reassuring speeches of the authorities and their promises, the “partial mobilization” quickly turned into a total one. The level of rigor in conducting the mobilization is off the charts. In addition to military commissariats, points of recruitment and provision of mobilization began to work in other institutions – in schools, theaters and museums. In Buryatia, classes were canceled in some schools due to the fact that temporary work stations with conscripts were set up in the buildings of educational institutions. Raids began on the streets and in public places.
🔻In national republics, the military surrounds populated areas and forcibly removes all men. About 700 conscripts were mobilized in the village of Kurumkan in Buryatia with a population of 5,500 people. The rules of partial mobilization announced earlier by the authorities are not followed – the groups of people who were announced to be mobilized are not taken to the war. Summonses are given to parents with many children, men over 60 years old, people with disabilities, from the budget sector, and even the dead.
On Saturday, September 25, putin signed a decree exempting full-time and part-time students from mobilization. But last Thursday, summonses were handed to the students of the first year of the Faculty of Buryat Philology of the Buryat State University.
In response, those who can potentially be mobilized flee from russia, hide, protest, and set fire to military commissars. Or arrange a shooting at them.
❗Since the beginning of the mobilization, 17 military commissariats have been set on fire, and there have been 37 of them since the beginning of the war. In the capital of Dagestan, Makhachkala, on Sunday, a spontaneous rally near the military commissariat was accompanied by physical clashes with the police and the blocking of the federal highway. On the same day, several dozen women residents of Nalchik in Kabardino-Balkaria rallied in front of the government building of the republic and beat men away from police officers who tried to detain them. In Yakutsk, about 400 people, mostly women, held a round dance in the city square, chanting “No war!” and “No genocide!”.
🔻Mobilization gained special intensity in the poorest subsidized national republics of russia.
From the evening of September 21, in Buryat villages (uluses), men aged 18 to 72 were handed summonses and demanded to go to the conscription point immediately. Residents of the republic say that the men were given half an hour for the meeting, then they were often put in cars without clothes and belongings and taken to Ulan-Ude. Then the men are sent by military aircraft to the city of Borzya in the Trans-Baikal region, and after training – to Ukraine.
🔎 However, everything indicates that the local authorities of the republics will not be able to fulfill the kremlin’s “request” and provide the “planned” number of mobilized. Despite the public statements of kremlin propaganda about the patriotism of russians of non-Slavic appearance and their readiness to carry out the commander-in-chief’s order to protect “russian world” in a neighboring state, this time everything went wrong.
🔻 For example, the Buryats assessed the new conscription as ethnic cleansing and genocide of their people and try to avoid mobilization in any way. After all, since the beginning of the war, this russian region has remained among the leaders in terms of human losses, despite the fact that out of almost 400,000 inhabitants of the republic, ethnic Buryats make up only 30%, and in russia – 0.3%. Even according to the official data of the ministry of defence of russia, Buryatia ranks second after Dagestan among russian regions in terms of the number of people killed in the war with Ukraine – 267 people. In fact, there is not a single family left in Buryatia that was not affected by this war. For many Buryats, the very idea of “denazification of Ukraine” is surprising, because the Buryat national minority constantly faces racism and discrimination in russia. They remember how in the army of the russian federation, Buryats are considered “dumb, but disciplined and determined”, so the command uses them without thinking as “cannon fodder” when “the russians feel sorry for them”.
🔻 In response to forced mobilization, russians flee the country en masse. In Telegram channels, proposals to “depart” from mobilization and leave for other countries are gaining popularity.
Most often, russians of “non-professional” nations go to Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and from the middle of the week there are kilometer-long queues of cars and buses filled with men in front of the borders. Moreover, Mongolia is ready to receive people fleeing putin’s mobilization. Instead, for residents of Buryatia who do not want to be mobilized, evacuation buses to Mongolia are organized, which are paid for by representatives of the Buryat diaspora from all over the world. Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan also help Buryats who do not want to be mobilized to leave.
☝️ Thus, the impossibility of a “final solution to the Ukrainian issue” turns into a “final solution to the Buryat, Dagestan and Crimean Tatar issue” for the kremlin. After all, the extermination of national minorities by means of mobilization is part of the strategy of russian clans to gain control over the political elite and the population of national republics.
❗putin’s announced “partial mobilization” will require Ukraine to use more manpower and weapons in order to regain the captured territories and win the war.
However, the kremlin’s focus on repeating the “Donetsk” scenario of gradual annexation and subsequent annexation of new territories in Luhansk, Donetsk regions and the occupied part of Kherson and Zaporizhia regions to russia is doomed to failure. After all, putin’s attempt to replenish the army for the war against Ukraine at the expense of sending untrained and unprepared conscripts, mostly from regional republics, to the front line is encountering significant resistance.
🔻 Total mobilization does not happen at all in the way it is portrayed by propagandist federal TV channels. Native Buryats, Udmurts, Dagestanis, and Tatars no longer want their nationality to be associated with the atrocities of the russian army in Ukraine, and massively avoid “partial mobilization.”
