Anti-mobilisation protests break out in Dagestan, police respond by shooting
UKRAINSKA PRAVDA — SUNDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2022, 17:27
Residents of the village of Endirey in the Republic of Dagestan blocked the Khasavyurt-Makhachkala highway with an anti-mobilisation protest on the afternoon of Sunday, 25 September. The police opened fire into the air.
Source: Meduza’s Telegram channel
Details: 110 people have been called up from the village as part of the mobilisation, and people came to the demonstration to protect their sons, brothers and husbands.
Footage filmed by eyewitnesses shows the police attempting to disperse the protesters by firing into the air. It is not known whether there are any casualties or detainees.
According to Meduza, anti-mobilisation demonstrations began in various regions of Russia on 21 September, the first day of the draft. Since then, more than two thousand people have been detained in various cities in Russia, the largest number on 21 September, when over 1,300 people were detained.
Ukrainska Pravda reported that a protest has been held in Ordzhonikidze Square in Yakutsk, Russia, where women came out to demand an "end to the genocide" and the return home of their men from the war against Ukraine.
Background:
- On the morning of 21 September, Vladimir Putin announced partial mobilisation.
- Later it turned out that there was a hidden seventh paragraph in the Russian President’s decree on partial mobilisation that allows the Ministry of Defence of Russia to call up 1 million people, mostly from rural areas.
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