Russians Began To Be Issued "mobilization Orders" En Masse

Documents are pasted into military ID cards after summonses to military enlistment offices.

Russian citizens in early 2026 more often began to receive "mobilization orders" when visiting military enlistment offices, where they are summoned for "clarification of information" or by electronic summons. This is evidenced by the statistics of search queries in Google and Yandex, as well as information from lawyers, writes The Moscow Times.

The surge of queries using the keywords "mobilization order" Google began to record from the end of March, and their number peaked in early April. As a result, the queries "mobilization order pasted", "how long is the mobilization order valid", "red mobilization order" received the status of "super-popular" in Google Trends.

"Yandex" Wordstat recorded Russians' interest in "mobilization instructions" since last fall, and then revealed an almost 4-fold jump in such requests in winter and early spring: in April there were about 40,000 of them against less than 10,000 in January.

Mobilization instructions are issued on the basis of a decision of the municipal draft board. It contains instructions on what a citizen must do in case mobilization is announced: where and when to come and what to take with him. Usually the prescription is pasted or inserted into a military card.

The project "Appeal to Conscience" wrote in early April that people who receive summonses from military enlistment offices report "mobilization prescriptions". Its experts recommended "not to give your military card to (military enlistment office) employees" in order to avoid pasting the prescription.

The human rights project "Go to the Forest" in February reported about the seizure of military cards from employees of a large company with the subsequent issuance of summonses and the suggestion to "paste the mobilization prescription". In March, in Altai Krai, the administration of the village of Novoromanovo posted lists "for receiving mobilization orders", obliging men to show up with military IDs.

Recruits from Novosibirsk and the Chelyabinsk region also reported about pasting the order. A representative of one of them said that military commissions are now "working on commands, checking everyone and adding people to the group of those who 'may be useful to the army,' calling it preparation for general mobilization and selection of candidates."

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