1/ Non-Russians in Chelyabinsk are being given mobilisation orders, despite partial mobilisation supposedly having ended and despite not having Russian passports or even residence permits, which should make them ineligible. ⬇️
2/ SOTA reports that employees of a sugar refinery in Chelyabinsk have been "handed mobilisation summonses on Monday through their management, demanding their attendance at the military registration and enlistment office" today (1 December).
3/ Among those receiving the summonses were citizens of Belarus and Uzbekistan, which as SOTA notes, ignores "their lack of Russian passports or even residence permits."
4/ A source at the refinery tells SOTA: "I can't afford not to go. After all, I am threatened with dismissal, and almost all the other guys have already left and gone home.
5/ The foreman says that there's a decree from Putin, and that even non-citizens of the Russian Federation are being drafted. They tell me "they won't send you to the war, they'll only check your data", but I'm still afraid.""
6/ The source likely has good reason to be afraid, particularly if they lack a residence permit: other migrants have reported being given a choice between being mobilised or face being deported from Russia. Many migrants in Moscow have reportedly been forcibly recruited.
7/ This may have led to a mass shooting at an army range by two forcibly recruited Tajiks on 15 October, in which 27 mobilised Russians were shot, with 11 reported dead. The Tajiks were reportedly detained in Moscow and sent to train soon afterwards.
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