Who is called as – Newspaper Kommersant No. 176 (7377) of 09/23/2022
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On Thursday, the Ministry of Defense reported that, without waiting for subpoenas as part of partial military mobilization, 10,000 Russians had already turned up at the military registration and enlistment offices on their own. “Kommersant” looked into several commissariats to check how the mobilization campaign was going.
“V” and “G” did not sit on the pipe
“During the first day of partial mobilization, more than 10,000 citizens arrived at the military commissariats on their own, without waiting for a summons,” Vladimir Tsimlyansky, a spokesman for the main organizational and mobilization department of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, reported yesterday about the start of the campaign. At the same time, Mr. Tsimlyansky gave an official explanation of which of the Russians was exempted from conscription as part of the mobilization:
- “Reserved citizens, these include employees of defense industry enterprises;
- Citizens recognized as temporarily unfit for military service for health reasons;
- citizens engaged in constant care for a family member or who are disabled people of group I;
- citizens who have four or more dependent children under the age of 16;
- citizens whose mothers, in addition to them, have four or more children under the age of eight years and bring them up without a husband.
Thus, the military department for the first time clarified that, due to health reasons, only those liable for military service of the so-called category “G” will avoid being sent to the unit. There are five categories in total. “A” – fit for service, absolutely healthy and has no health problems. “B” – good with minor restrictions. “B” – limited fit for military service (exemption from conscription in peacetime). “G” – temporarily unfit for military service. The basis for enrollment in the latter category is an illness or injury that suggests a likelihood of recovery. A delay in this case may be given for at least six months, with the possibility of its extension. “D” – unfit for military service (a citizen is exempted from military duty in general). Earlier discussions were raised by the question of whether the mobilization of Russians who have a mark with category “B” on their military ID. The Ministry of Defense gave an unequivocal answer: this category does not appear in the list presented by Mr. Tsimlyansky.
Vladimir Tsymlyansky also said that the order of conscription of citizens from the reserve has not been established. “Nevertheless, priority is given to citizens who have suitable military specialties,” the representative of the Ministry of Defense noted. “It must be understood that the number of drafted citizens is determined by the regular needs of the completed military units. One of the main factors is that the citizens called up from the reserve have combat experience.” Mr. Tsimlyansky also named priority categories that are “necessary to complete tasks”: “These, of course, are shooters, tankers, artillerymen, drivers, driver-mechanics.”
The military department also emphasized that citizens who “are outside the country on a short trip and are registered with the military at their place of residence in Russia can be called up for military service as part of partial mobilization.”
Moscow was not built in a day
Despite the partial mobilization announced the day before, there were not many people near the capital’s military registration and enlistment offices, which Kommersant’s correspondents looked at on Thursday. We are talking, in particular, about the Tver and Ostankino Commissariats. “I came voluntarily, I didn’t receive a summons,” said driver Denis, 29, whom Kommersant met on the outskirts of the military enlistment office of the Butyrsky district. “If I don’t come here voluntarily, they can attack my family. And I have a five year old son. According to him, the military registration and enlistment office gave instructions to come on Saturday: “To the training center and further along the distribution. There is a military unit in the Moscow region, everyone will be trained. I served in the Airborne Forces ten years ago, there is a lot to remember.” A 30-year-old man in a jacket said that he “came to submit information about himself, expressed a desire to serve”: “This is my country, which I love and want to protect. In 1941 there were traitors and there were patriots. I’m a patriot”. According to him, he was also given the task to appear in two days. “We will get to the distribution point, and from there the formation of the parts that are needed will begin,” he specified.
On the contrary, it was crowded near the military commissariat of the Savelovsky district. Men periodically entered the building – some with thin folders, some with bags. Half an hour later, the first hurriedly left the territory, the second, with things, stood at the fence and nervously lit a cigarette. “They called me to three o’clock according to the agenda,” says a plump 27-year-old Kirill. “Now let’s go.” He nods at a white van parked nearby. The destination, according to him, was not reported at the military registration and enlistment office. He says that he “served the usual term” and he has no combat experience. “I feel fine,” Kirill smiles nervously, throwing a small black backpack behind his back. “In America, they have always said that war is the defense of the homeland, so they perceive it more easily. And we have always associated war with blood. That’s why everyone is afraid. But there’s nothing to be afraid of yet.” A young man in a green sweatshirt with a white bag from Auchan and two men over 40 with bigger bags are also smoking near the fence. They have no desire to communicate with journalists.
“It’s hard for us to do this too, but we have presidential decrees,” says Elena, who introduced herself as an assistant to the head of the military registration and enlistment office. “We have a lot of controversial issues and sometimes even doubt whether a person should be called up. For example, he has a small child, and he says he wants to go because he has to.” According to her, they began to appear on the agenda from Thursday. “It’s not so easy, you have to send it out to everyone,” she says. “And this is the fate of every person. It’s not a herd. So we look into each case.”
48-year-old Vyacheslav comes out of the military enlistment office with two small colored bags: “Personal belongings and mineral water. What else does a soldier need? Everything else will be given by the commanders. Vyacheslav found a summons in the mailbox the day before, “smiled” and appeared at the military registration and enlistment office. “And now I am happy that I will go with the rest of my fellow citizens,” he says. “All is well! Let’s hope everyone comes home. Because everyone is waiting. Nobody wants to fight, to be honest, but you need to defend yourself.” According to him, he has no combat experience, he served in the army, with the rank of senior sergeant. When asked where they would take him, he waves his hand: “What’s the difference? Some fees, in the suburbs. Where, I did not specify. A few minutes later, he was already telling someone on the phone: “We were told that it would be a therodefense, but we don’t know how true. They say somewhere in the suburbs.
“Yesterday, police officers came to the house, handed it to my mother against signature,” a young man of about 25 shared. “Mom is in shock, she suffered a heart attack last year.” He works as an auto mechanic, served as a private in the army for a year. “Of course, I don’t want to go,” he admits. “But they handed me the summons, they threaten me with an article, they promise ten years. And what’s better? Here we are promised two months, but ten years are threatened. At this moment, the girl who came with him starts crying. The young man also mentions: “They said we’ll go to the territorial defense.”
The concept of “territorial defense”, which was previously used only when referring to Ukrainian military formations, also exists in the legislation of the Russian Federation. According to Art. 22 of the Law “On Defense”, “territorial defense is a system of measures taken during the period of martial law to protect and defend military, important state and special facilities, facilities that ensure the vital activity of the population, the functioning of transport, communications and communications, energy facilities, facilities representing increased danger to human life and health and to the natural environment”. It is emphasized that this system is being introduced “on the territory of the Russian Federation or in its individual areas where martial law has been introduced, taking into account the measures applied during the period of martial law.” Martial law in Russia, we recall, is not currently introduced. Kommersant sent a request to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation to clarify the information, but did not receive a response.
Afghan veteran Oleg told Kommersant that, having received a mobilization order the day before, which indicated the team number, military registration specialty, military position (scout) and rank (private), he appeared at one of the military registration and enlistment offices in the north-west of Moscow, but found only the duty officer there. The elderly woman, according to Oleg, was very surprised: “They usually run away from us, but you yourself came.” Soon the company was made up of two former paratroopers who participated in counter-terrorist operations in the North Caucasus. All three were in their fifties. “They recruit up to 30-35 years old,” said the duty officer, suggesting, however, that the visitors become instructors for recruits.
Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora human rights group, said on Thursday that the group’s hotline receives thousands of requests from citizens who, for various reasons, do not want to join the ranks of the mobilized. In this regard, he recalled the provisions of Article 59 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation: “A citizen, if his beliefs or religion contradicts the performance of military service, has the right to replace it with alternative civilian service (ACS).” The current legislation, Mr. Chikov recalled, enshrines the right to ACS only in case of conscription. The passage of the ACS during the period of mobilization or martial law “is determined by federal constitutional laws.” “There are no such legal acts at the moment,” Mr. Chikov emphasized. “But this should not deprive citizens of the right to alternative service. If serving with a weapon in your hands contradicts your convictions, you have the right to apply for the ACS, and in case of refusal, appeal the refusal in court.
Lockout position
Mobilization events, as Kommersant reported, are also taking place in other regions. On the eve of the Kursk region became the first subject, where the authorities forbade citizens in the reserve to leave without the permission of the military registration and enlistment office. In Tatarstan, on Thursday, such a measure was introduced by the military commissar of the republic, Sergei Pogodin, for those liable for military service. We are talking about “officers, ensigns, midshipmen, sergeants, foremen, soldiers and sailors of the reserve.” The press service of the President of Tatarstan could not explain how the restriction will be controlled. Organizations where conscripts work must pay them their wages and release them from work, the order says. If citizens in the reserve live in Tatarstan temporarily, they are ordered to “immediately leave for the place of permanent residence.” Sergei Pogodin ordered residents and organizations to “deliver serviceable vehicles, road construction, underground transport and other machines and mechanisms” to the military registration and enlistment offices, however, without specifying their list. A similar provision is contained in the order of the military commissar of the Lipetsk region Valery Gerasimenko and the decree of the head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov. At the disposal of the military commissar of Moscow, we note that there is no clause on restricting travel outside the city for those who are in reserve, but do not yet have mobilization orders in their hands and have not received a summons.
In Crimea, the head of the region, Sergei Aksyonov, promised to pay each mobilized Crimean a one-time payment of 200,000 rubles. According to him, an application for payment can be filled in the military unit, and the money will be transferred to a bank card within five working days. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin ordered to pay 50 thousand rubles. monthly, as well as 0.5-1 million rubles. in case of injuries and 3 million rubles. upon the death of a soldier.
On Thursday it became known that the government of the Russian Federation approved a decree on the preservation of jobs for mobilized citizens: they will retain their employment contract and later can return to their original place. Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Chernyshenko announced that since Thursday, a hotline 122 has been activated to answer questions from citizens about partial mobilization in Russia.
In Kamchatka, the chief federal inspector of the region, Yevgeny Makarov, and deputy chairman of the regional government, Sergei Mironov, themselves announced their decision to join the army. The governor of the Kamchatka Territory, Vladimir Solodov, told Kommersant that the experience of the business executive, Mr. Mironov, “will be more in demand in restoration work in the liberated territories.” Earlier, the Kamchatka media disseminated information that the official had received a summons to mobilize. The regional government did not deny this information.
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