Conscripts from all regions of Russia are sent en masse to the Kursk region, – FT

Conscripts from all regions of Russia are being sent en masse to the Kursk region, – FT Diana Kvasnevskaya

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Russia is sending conscripts from all over Russia to the Kursk region. Although earlier Russian dictator Putin promised that they would allegedly not participate in hostilities.

It is worth noting that there were also conscripts in Kursk region during the Ukrainian Armed Forces' entry, who were captured by Ukrainian soldiers. Now a representative of the Russian public organization “Go to the Forest”, which helps Russians avoid mobilization and participation in the war against Ukraine, says that people are scared.

What is known about the transfer of conscripts

We are inundated with requests and can barely keep up. This began in some regions, but now it is clear that conscripts are being mobilized from all over Russia, said Ivan Chuvilaev.

Senior research fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Dara Masikot said that the first force in the Kursk direction were:

• FSB border troops,
• Akhmat fighters from Chechnya,
• local ground units withdrawn from the Moscow or Leningrad military districts.

Now they have attracted additional forces, subordinated to the Leningrad and Moscow military districts, some of them are conscripts, – explained Masikot.

Military analysts and Russian pro-war social networks write that Moscow has probably transferred several battalions from Ukraine to Kursk region, including the Kharkov, Luhansk and Zaporizhia regions.

The Lithuanian Defense Ministry also wrote that the Russians redeployed troops from the Kaliningrad region. However, Russia has not transferred forces to the Donetsk region.

The publication writes that the pace of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' advance in Kursk region slowed last week, and the Ukrainian military is advancing several kilometers a day deeper into Russian territory. At the same time, Putin does not want to transfer significant resources from Ukraine.

Putin hopes to contain Ukraine's advance primarily with conscripts. But will they be able to push back the Ukrainian troops? I doubt it, said Russian military analyst Yuri Fedorov. He explains that: the various contingents that Russia had assembled in the Kursk region had no experience of operating together and had no time to learn; even after reinforcements arrived last week, Russian forces remained significantly fewer in the region than Ukrainian ones, although Russia has air support. Pavel Luzin, a senior research fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis, says that Russia has 300,000 conscripts, who are practically its only significant reserve. accessible to the Kremlin.

Ivan Chuvilaev explained that now in Russia conscripts are forced to sign contracts, and documents are forged to make it look like they have been serving for a long time. After all, according to Russian law, conscripts can only be sent to a combat zone if they have served for more than 4 months and have special skills.

But the law can be easily broken, the publication writes.

A representative of the Russian public organization “Go to the Forest” said that:

• According to the organization, more than 250 people were transferred from a military unit in the Leningrad Region to Kursk;
• They received requests for conscripts from at least 10 units, so we can say that they transferred approximately 1,000 people.

Also on the Russian website Change.org, several petitions from mothers of conscripts have appeared, reminding Putin of his promise not to involve their children in combat operations and demanding that they be withdrawn from the Kursk region.