Lists of men subjected to mobilisation have been received by border crossing checkpoints in Russian airports, including those of Moscow; the controls of men of military age in accordance with the lists have begun, some of the men have been prohibited from going abroad, reports media outlet The Bell, citing four sources in the aviation industry.
Three interlocutors of the media outlet said that this development did not concern all men subject to mobilisation. If a military enlistment office has already issued an enlistment or mobilisation notice for a citizen, then they could have ended up on the lists. The Bell’s source from one of the Moscow airports claims that 20 men of military age had been prohibited from crossing the border during the last 24 hours in the source’s airport.
A source from another airport told the outlet that the first restriction lists based on military enlistment offices’ orders had started coming in the early hours of Saturday, 24 September, even more of them had come in on Sunday, 25 September. According to one of the sources of The Bell, information on each individual citizen being prohibited from leaving Russia gets uploaded to the common information system of border control MIR (Peace); the system is updated more often than every two hours — “restrictions from military offices come in in batches, and at different speeds from different regions”. “It probably depends on how well cooperation has been established [in each separate region],” the source speculated.
According to two sources of The Bell, the restrictions apply not only to passengers but crew members too — there have been cases of pilots and flight attendants being prohibited from leaving the country. In those cases, crew members were replaced.
The outlet notes that a photo of a document of an exit ban based on a military enlistment office’s decision, issued in Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, was spread on Telegram channel this morning. The authenticity of the document has not been confirmed.
