Mobilised workers in Luhansk Oblast replaced by Russians – Haidai

TUESDAY, 6 SEPTEMBER, 2022, 09:48

Russians have been carrying out a so-called military draft in the occupied territories of Ukraine, taking men away from enterprises and sending Russian workers or women to replace them.

Source: Serhii Haidai, head of Luhansk Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram 

Details: This situation is being observed at the Alchevsk metallurgical plant and at the Dovzhanska-Kapitalna mine.

According to Haidai, men practically have no choice because of the policy of so-called LPR [self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic]: either they must hide until the territory is liberated, or to agree to go to their deaths.

The head of Luhansk Oblast Military Administration said that more than 400 men were forcibly mobilised recently at the once leading Dovzhanska-Kapitalna mine, and women and pensioners were recruited in their place.

At the Alchevsk metallurgical plant, forced mobilisation affected even those who had an exemption [from mobilisation].

Quote from Haidai: "That is, it does not matter whether production will be able to continue in the future without these specialists, the most important thing is to carry out the plan of the [self-proclaimed] Military Commissariat. The men who still remain in the town understand that to get a job at the Alchevsk metallurgical plant means to receive a mobilisation order right after the first salary. That is why they are not going there. 

Men from the Russian Federation are working at the metallurgical plant. They say that they will not be in town all the time. And over time, shift workers will be replaced by others, who will earn a little extra and then go back to their families. Alive, because the local military is also detaining them on the street for mobilisation, but then they apologise and let them go. It's unacceptable:  it’s local people who have to die."

Details: Meanwhile, Haidai says, in Luhansk, "there are a large number of militants who have been killed who are difficult to identify."

Genetic material is being sampled among relatives of servicemen from the so-called "people's militia of the LPR" in the hopes of identifying the dead.

Quote from Haidai: "It is more difficult to come back alive for those who were captured. As their wives say, Russia has abandoned their husbands in Ukrainian captivity and does not want to exchange them. They exchange only captured Russians, and nobody needs those mobilised people from Donbas. The only chance of seeing their husbands is liberation".

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