IT specialists without military experience mobilised in Moscow
THURSDAY, 22 SEPTEMBER 2022, 17:17
In the capital of the Russian Federation, Moscow, an IT specialist, Viktor Bugreyev, received a mobilisation notice even though he has never served in the army.
Source: Dozhd TV channel, citing the Telegram channel Ostorozhno, Moskva, which posted Bugreyev’s video comment
Details: The first men mobilised gathered near a military enlistment office of the Svaliava district on 22 September. The government wants to send them to the Moscow suburbs for training.
A resident of Moscow city, Viktor Bugreyev said that he received a mobilisation notice on 21 September - the same day the Russian President Vladimir Putin announced "a partial mobilisation".
Bugreyev has a PhD in Economics and is working at Sberbank as an IT specialist. He has no military experience. The military enlistment office said that his ‘group B’ would now be subject to mobilisation.
"I have never served, never performed military service, I don’t have a military specialty, I have never studied at a military department [in university - ed.]. I am going to go - what else can I do? Otherwise, I will have a criminal record… I have come today, they will send me today," Bugreyev said.
He said that he would be sent to a so-called territorial defence unit in Naro-Fominsk (Russia).
Viktor Bugreyev is 32 years old, is married and does not have any children.
Background:
- On the morning of 21 September, Vladimir Putin announced partial mobilisation. He claimed it was necessary "to defend the country". According to Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, only reservists will be called up; the official plan is to mobilise 300,000 servicemen.
- Protest rallies against mobilisation began in Russian cities; protesters were detained. In Moscow and Voronezh, mobilisation notices were handed to those who were detained at the protests against partial mobilisation.
- The mobilisation decree caused panic among Russians who rushed to flee the country; prices of plane tickets to so-called safe countries soared sky-high, and huge queues lined up on Russia’s borders, in particular with Finland and Mongolia.
- Finland is considering closing the border for Russian citizens after the decision to start mobilisation in Russia.
- British Intelligence assumes that the mobilisation will be extremely unpopular in Russia.
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