The video surveillance system is used in Moscow to ascertain where potential recruits reside, Moscow’s chief military enlistment officer Maxim Loktev told TASS.
“The video camera surveillance system is used in Moscow to determine where conscripts live, organisations where they work report their personal details to military enlistment offices on the Moscow mayor’s orders. Educational institutions help us find out where conscripts study,” he said.
According to him, the key reason why people refuse to show up at their designated military draft offices is because they do not reside at the place they are registered at. This prevents them from receiving draft notices. The number of those evading the mandatory one-year conscription is reducing with every year which is thanks to “the meticulous work of explaining the potential liability to citizens” for evasion, Loktev clarified.
“Even more so that they have nowhere to hide considering the resources we are employing,” he added.
Loktev said that more than 5,000 people will be called up for the conscription’s spring campaign. The conscripts will not be sent to the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, or Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine, the chief officer vowed.
Loktev earlier said that the spring enlistment campaign will run a trial to test draft sendouts via Gosuslugi, Russia’s government services portal, if the government makes this decision. The spring campaign will be held in Russia until 15 July.
On 14 April, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the digital military summons bill. On 12 April, Russia’s upper house of parliament approved the document: 163 senators voted for it and only one, Lyudmila Narusova, opposed it. On 11 April, Russia’s lower house of parliament adopted the bill in its second and third readings. It took lawmakers less than 24 hours to first publicly announce the bill and then pass it. The Russian General Staff said that there would be no sweeping distributions of digital notices.
