About 300 residents of Russia’s Yakutia who were drafted by mistake have returned home, head of the regional civic chamber Nikolay Bugayev said.
“Approximately 300 men mobilised by mistake have returned home, all of them are in the republic,” Bugayev said, quoted by Russian state news agency TASS.
The coordination centre of Yakutia’s civic chamber has received 209 claims regarding the partial mobilisation. Over the past three days, 63 people have called the centre’s mental health hotline, the official said, adding that “each claim is processed personally”.
“Medical boards have opened at draft offices to carry out an initial medical examination of the men drafted within the partial mobilisation. The help centre for the mobilised continues to function as well. A significant number of sleeping bags and additional equipment have been sent to the Khabarovsk and Primorye regions,” Bugayev stated.
On 25 September, local women took to the streets in the city of Yakutsk to protest the mobilisation of men for the war in Ukraine. The police dispersed the protesters, while regional officials stated that it was a rally “in support of the mobilised”. On the same day, the first plane transporting unlawfully drafted men took off to Yakutia to bring them home.
Earlier today, head of Russia’s Khabarovsk region Mikhail Degtyarev stated that the region’s military commissar Yury Layko had been fired from his job. This happened due to the fact that half of the mobilised residents of the regions had been drafted by mistake, the governor said.
On 30 September, governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov announced that 111 people drafted by mistake in the region had returned home. On 27 September, military commissar for the Magadan region Sergey Baranovsky was fired for the mistakes committed during the “partial mobilisation”. The Magadan regional governor ordered the officials to monitor the complaints filed by relatives of citizens mobilised by mistake.
