"There May Be Localized Pockets Of Resistance."

Will Russians protest against hidden mobilization?

The Kremlin is preparing to drop two million more Russians into war. The new law will allow Putin to use the mobilization reserve without declaring mobilization or martial law. Experts believe that this shows the colossal losses of the Russian army and the crisis of manpower on the front.

Will Russians protest against the hidden mobilization? This question Charter97.org asked a military expert, co-director of foreign policy and international security programs of the Razumkov Center in Kiev Alexei Melnik:

- It is unlikely that even in the Kremlin itself, someone can unambiguously answer this question. Queues at the border, as in 2022, most likely, there will be no more - the relevant preventive work has been done in advance. Reservists may try to leave, but they will simply not be released.

The system of electronic summonses was recently launched, which also applies to conscripts. Now even those who simply want to leave the country will not be able to do so. Figuratively speaking, with a single movement of a computer mouse, summonses can be sent out, after which citizens are automatically blocked not only from traveling abroad, but also from many other rights, and serious administrative inconveniences are created. The Russian authorities, at least, have already solved this problem.

As for the reaction of society, this is a complicated question. Russians can limit themselves to the formula: "Well, yes, I don't want to go to war, but where will I go?". They will go wherever they are told to go. This is one of the probable scenarios.

Nevertheless, it cannot be ruled out that local centers of resistance may emerge in some regions or at the individual level. However, this is only a hypothesis. In order to understand what the real reaction will be, it is necessary to wait for the practical implementation of these decisions.

It is absolutely obvious that the new mobilization will be another deception. According to the project in question, reservists are mobilized for a period of two months. But if no truce is reached during this time, no one will let them go. Most likely, the fate of the same "chmobiks", as they called the mobilized of 2022, awaits them. That is, this draft will actually become indefinite.

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