JACOB PAUL
Vladimir Putin has allegedly started the forced military registration of migrants with Russian citizenship as Russia continues to suffer staggering battlefield losses, local media reports have claimed.The Kremlin appears to be rolling out a desperate plan to sign up migrants living in Russia to its military following major police raids, according to local reports.
St Petersburg police carried out a two-day raid at a vegetable warehouse where they detained and delivered about 100 migrants with Russian citizenship to a military registration and enlistment office for their military registration, according to a report in Perlid.
The authorities were checking and sending migrants with Russian passports to the office as part of a so-called “new option” in the framework of migration raids, the report claimed.
They discovered up to one hundred men from Central Asia with Russian citizenship who were not entered registered in the military register.
A police statement read: “From the point of view of the main goal of the raid, this category of citizens is of no operational interest. However, taking the opportunity, the police do not miss the opportunity to further educate the Russians: citizenship gives not only rights, but also obligations. Including the constitutional obligation of military service.”
Meanwhile, several men who had recently received Russian citizenship who were not registered with the military were also detained in Cheboksary and Novocheboksarsk.
They were reportedly taken to the military registration and enlistment offices by force and ordered to enroll.
Valery Fadeev, head of the Human Rights Council, said following the raid that “new citizens of Russia should have not only rights, but also duties” such as “defending their homeland.”
Russia’s first wave of mobilisation amid the Ukraine war sparked a major outpouring of chaos and fury across the country when over 300,000 men were conscripted to fight in the war. An even larger number are thought to have fled Russia.
In April, Moscow rushed through a new law to make it significantly harder for Russians to dodge conscription while also banning conscripts from leaving the country.
And last month, Russian lawmakers approved legislation likely to raise the upper age limit for mandatory military service from 27 to 30 in a bid to expand its military.
It comes as Russia reportedly suffers a vast amount of losses, perhaps more than expected, amid its illegal invasion of Ukraine.
Defence Minister Ben Wallace said in March: "The Russian forces have some really significant and deep systemic problems at the moment in their efforts.”
However, it is difficult to establish accurate figures for the actual number of losses Putin’s troops have suffered in combat.
According to Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence website, a cumulative total of the number of enemy personnel “liquidated”, along with other combat losses, was listed as 249,110 as of August 5.
But Russia far downplayed the figure, claiming it had lost just 6,000 soldiers.
According to John Kirby, the White House’s National Security Council spokesperson, the US estimated that Russia had suffered 100,000 casualties between December 2022 and April 2023.
He said: “It’s really stunning, these numbers.
“It’s three times the number of killed in action that the United States faced on the Guadalcanal campaign in the Second World War.”
According to a leaked US intelligence document dated February 17, Putin and his Kremlin officials were allegedly fearful over their plan to sign up 400,000 new soldiers could spark a huge public revolt.
To avoid a public backlash, reports claimed that Mosocw was plotting to secretly sign-up hundreds of thousands of soldiers in secret to bolster Russia’s depleting army.
Colonel Hamish de Bretton Gordon, a weapons expert and former British Army officer, told Daily Express US Putin was targeting millions of untrained recruits to enroll in secret in an act of "complete desperation".
He said: “I understand from an excellent source that the Russians have for some time identified four million people across Russia who they think will not be noticed if they disappear.
“These are people of low intellect, they are people who are drug addicts, alcoholics, homeless, because they need to feed this meat grinder. It is shocking.
“It is not the elite going. They are looking for people who just won’t be missed and it is unbelievably cynical.”
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