Partial mobilization completed in Moscow

Moscow has completed conscription as part of partial mobilization, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. Collection points for the mobilized are closed today, October 17, at 14:00.

“Summons sent out in the process of mobilization to the place of residence and enterprises cease to have effect,” the mayor wrote in his blog. He promised, together with the leadership of the regions where Muscovites serve, “to promote the improvement of life in military units.”

Partial mobilization has been announced in Russia since September 21 by decree of Vladimir Putin. Mobilized Muscovites pay an additional 50 thousand rubles. per month. Sergei Sobyanin also introduced additional measures to support the families of citizens who have fallen under mobilization. In particular, their children will receive free two meals a day at school, and psychological assistance will be provided to the whole family. In addition, relatives of mobilized may receive payments for them.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that 300,000 people were planned to be drafted across Russia. The number of conscripts in Moscow and the Moscow region is unknown. Russian President Vladimir Putin last week declaredthat the mobilization will be completed within two weeks.

On the progress of mobilization in the Russian Federation – in the publication “Kommersant” “Amendments from” stupidity “”.