Friday, March 29

Mobilization for Ukraine war ignites Russia’s periphery


Not all regions contribute the same number of soldiers to the conflict between Russia Y Ukraine. This is the information that comes from the republics far from the big cities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg, such as Siberia and the North Caucasus, where ethnic minorities live. “From our village, where there are only 300 men, they took all of them,” explains a man from Yakutia, in one of the coldest parts of the Russian Arctic, who prefers not to be identified. He adds that in other towns in the region they have taken “60, 50, 47 men…”, most of them small. In these regions of the cold Siberian tundra, where there is no central heating or running water because it can reach negative 55 degrees in the harshest moments of winter, the role of men is essential. They are the ones who are in charge of the hardest tasks when the cold arrives, such as hunting and fishing.

This same man explains that he is expecting his “fifth child”. He suspects that he has been recruited because he served in Chechnya “for 3 years, in the special forces.” “They told me I’d go anyway, no matter how many kids I have,” she adds. He and other men from the surrounding area were sent to Khavarovsk, a major city in the Russian Far East. there they will receive training for 10 days and then they will be sent to different parts of the front.

In another part of Siberiaspecifically in Ust-Ilimsk (Irkutsk), a 25-year-old man shot a recruiting officer on Sunday when he pretended to want to enlist voluntarily. He entered the office and, before opening fire on the soldier, he yelled “everyone home.” Presumably his motivation is that they previously called his best friend, of whom he says that he has no experience and did not do military service. Ruslan Zinin now faces charges of illegal possession of a firearm and assault on authority. The officer is seriously injured.

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The spark of the Caucasus

For many years few protests have been seen on the north side of the Caucasian mountains. But recruitmentonce again, of men and boys of Dagestan, has filled the glass. This Sunday police officers were seen totally overwhelmed by groups of women, who asked for peace and not to take their children, as well as men threatening or even beating those law enforcement officers who arrested locals. Police officers were even forced to fire into the air to try to disperse a crowd that managed to cut off the state highway. The Kremlin has admitted the “hysteria” over the military mobilization, although it has blamed the regions for these protests.

There were even threats on the internet from some groups, who assured that if the detainees were not released on Sunday, they would start burning buildings. This Monday the images of civilians demonstrating have been repeated and the police have even been forced to use tear gas to repel the protesters.

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On Telegram, several channels urge the citizens of Dagestan not to go to work and thus paralyze the life of the republic until the authorities comply with their demands to cancel the mobilization.

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He had previously been dissatisfied with the policy of mobilization Russian in this part of the country, but until now it had not exploded in this way. Not only are they protesting against the draft, they are also hearing “no war” at the rallies, as they chant in the video below.

The south of Russia is a hot zone due to historical precedents, the two Chechen wars took place here, many of the Russian citizens who were part of Islamic Statein addition to now being a transit point for thousands of vehicles that want to leave the country through Georgia either Azerbaijan.




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