As newly mobilised men return from the front in coffins, critics complain of aggressive recruiting, low morale and poor training• Russia-Ukraine war latest – live blog
The newly minted soldiers died within weeks of Vladimir Putin’s mobilisation announcement on 21 September. On Thursday, the Chelyabinsk region announced the deaths of five mobilised soldiers from a single military commissariat. Reports on Saturday said that another four had died from the Krasnoyarsk region alone. Family members of some men who died said they hadA drafted reservist says goodbye at a recruiting station in St Petersburg.
Yet deaths happening so quickly, some just days after men have been called into service, have caused anger at home. Roman Super, a Russian journalist who has reported on anger among state employees, said that Martynov’s death had led to a“Military leaders, now is not the time to lie,” wrote Loseva. “You have no right to lie and now it is a crime.”
“The line of contact is 1,100km, so it is almost impossible to hold it exclusively with troops formed from contractors,” said Putin. “This is the reason for mobilisation.”
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