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> Putin announced a mobilisation of people with relevant experience and reservists and said they would be trained first.
> Following this Shoigu went into more detail. He said they plan to mobilise 300,000 people, they will not mobilise students
It's fucked up completely, even pro-government people try to soften what happened now. Voenkomats (military recruiting centers) grabbed everyone on random, even 60+ yo people with serious health conditions, often without any medical check at all. No one knows would it be 300k or million, or more, there are only rumors. There are reports that some of mobilized already gone to Ukraine without training, but it is hard to confirm now. Dagestan has local unrest, Chechnya was smarter and said that they wouldn't mobilize anyone.
Biggest thing is that Shoigu said something about ages and experience, but published government order had no restrictions at all - they can grab anyone.
Basically, everything in full panic now. Thousands run for borders to visa-free countries (like Georgia or Kazakhstan), airline tickets skyrocketed and hard to find. Borders aren't closed for everyone, but some people already got restriction. Different government branches trying to find how protect valuable workers in hurry, because mobilization was unexpected even for them. Some entities like Digital Technology Ministry have partially implemented solution for some workers (only for specific registered companies, but even this isn't fixed in law now), others still in talks with MoD.
> refusing mobilisation will be punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Only if you signed under mobilization notice in voenkomat. At least for now, but situation changes pretty fast.
I don't meet Shoigu conditions for multiple reasons, but there is a chance that everything would be bad for me too, they've mobilized some people like me already. I took some effort in hiding though, but don't know if it would be enough.