Yury Layko, the military commissar of Russia’s Khabarovsk region who was fired earlier today for the mistakes made during the “partial mobilisation”, was appointed to the same job in the Magadan region, state news agency RIA Novosti reports, citing the press service of the Eastern Military District.
“Colonel Yury Layko, the military commissar of the Khabarovsk region, was appointed military commissar of the Magadan region for service-related reasons. This position has been vacant since August 2022,” the press service said.
Governor of the Khabarovsk region Mikhail Degtyarev announced Layko’s resignation earlier today. “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,” he said.
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.
It turned out later that Baranovsky had been taken off the draft board back on 22 September, on the second day of the “partial mobilisation”, with Yevgeny Derkach filling in as acting military commissar. Derkach was the one who signed the regional mobilisation order on 21 September.
