Last Updated on 10/29/2022 by てんしょく飯
＜The disastrous reality of “mobilization” in Russia. The conditions are so bad that they are sent to the front lines without preparation or supplies. Fearing this, officials in the capital city have caused a mass exodus.
In Russia, there has been a “mass exodus” of citizens trying to escape conscription.
Nearly one-third of Moscow city officials fled the country within a month after Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a partial mobilization of reserve officers to be sent to Ukraine, local media reported.
Local media outlet Nestka reported that male employees in large departments, including housing, regional services, health care, and education, as well as specialists in the IT sector, all fled en masse, according to sources familiar with the situation.
Many of the employees have not formally resigned and have not reported the incident to the authorities, the sources said. They left their personal belongings at work without washing their mugs,” one source said.
On September 21, Putin announced that 300,000 reservists would be mobilized to fight in Ukraine. In the following two weeks, more than 370,000 citizens fled to neighboring countries such as Georgia, Finland, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia to avoid conscription.
In mid-October, a drafted Moscow city official died in Ukraine, leading to the mass resignation of the city’s employees.
On October 14, Russian journalist Roman Supel reported on his Telegram channel that Russian government sources told him that a string of city employees had submitted their resignations following the death of Alexei Martinov, 28, who was head of a Moscow city government department.
Martynov was drafted on September 23, despite having no combat experience, and died during combat in Ukraine on October 10, according to the report.
A government source told Supel, “There has been a mass exodus. Officials are leaving with notes: IT technicians, advertising, marketing, and public relations personnel, as well as civil servants in general. It is truly a mass exodus,” he said.
Supel noted, “It was revealed yesterday that Alexei Martynov, a mobilized Moscow city government employee, was killed.
■Died in combat a few days after enlisting.
Natalya Roseva, deputy editor-in-chief of Russia’s state media broadcaster RT, said on her Telegram channel that Martynov died in Ukraine just days after joining the army.
‘He served in the Semyonovsky regiment as a young man,’ Roseva noted. ‘He had no combat experience. （He was sent to the front a few days (after enlisting) and died a hero on October 10,” he said.
According to Meduza, a Russian-language independent news media outlet based in Latvia, the Semyonovsky Regiment is responsible for security for the Russian president and the Kremlin.
Ksenia Sobchak, 40, a prominent Russian journalist and former presidential candidate, also fled Russia to Lithuania. According to intelligence agencies in the country’s capital Vilnius, police authorities conducted a forced search of Sobchak’s home in Moscow on the morning of October 26.
The Russian state news agency TASS reported that security officials received an order to arrest her as a suspect in a criminal case along with Kirill Suhanov, Sobchak’s media representative.
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