Military commissar of Russia’s Khabarovsk region Yury Layko has been fired from his job, regional governor Mikhail Degtyarev said. According to him, half of the residents mobilised in the Khabarovsk region were drafted by mistake.
“In ten days, several thousand of our guys have received call-up papers and came to the draft offices. We returned about half of them home, as they do not fit the criteria for contract service. <…> All cases of overzealousness must be stopped. Furthermore, military commissar for the Khabarovsk region Yury Sergeevich Layko has been fired today from his job. This will in no way affect the fulfilment of goals set to us by our president,” Degtyarev said during a session.
Earlier, the Telegram channel of the Khabarovsk regional People’s Front reported that a man diagnosed with schizophrenia had been drafted in Khabarovsk. His wife told the channel that he had been taken to a military unit in Bikin, although he has been under medical supervision due to his mental health condition since 2017. It was also reported that a single father raising a disabled daughter had been mobilised in Khabarovsk.
On 27 September, military commissar for the Magadan region Sergey Baranovsky was fired for the mistakes made during the “partial mobilisation”. The Magadan regional governor ordered the officials to monitor the complaints filed by relatives of citizens mobilised by mistake.
