While the Russians themselves are fleeing from mobilization, residents of the occupied territories who did not have time or did not want to leave their homes are issued subpoenas to the Russian army and are forced to kill their own. First, the enemy received a human resource in the form of collaborators who received Russian passports. But due to huge losses, the invaders launched a new wave of mobilization and now they are rowing everyone: healthy and sick, guys under 18 and men over 60. They don't care what the cannon fodder will look like, the main thing is to have as much of it as possible.

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Targeted mobilization.

The most active mobilization is taking place in the Donbass, where it began in February 2022 and continues to this day..

“My son turned 18 and hasn’t left his apartment for six months.. Because men are taken to the front straight from the street. Our neighbor abuses alcohol, when he was returning home from another booze, the Russians put him in a car and took him to no one knows where, ”complains a resident of the Luhansk region.

In December 2022, the number of summonses to men increased again due to the heavy losses of Russians in the Donetsk and Luhansk directions. But back in February-March last year, according to the representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate Andrei Yusov, the occupiers “raked out” 42.5 thousand people in the Donetsk region, and now there is simply no one to mobilize there..

The aggressor needs resources so much that in Donetsk they take even women to the front. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 28 women have already been called up and sent for training by the occupying Kalininsky District Military Commissariat of Donetsk. The figure can be much higher, but now, due to the large internal migration of the population in Ukraine and abroad, it is, unfortunately, very difficult to see the real picture..

In Crimea, the situation is also deteriorating. After the start of the mobilization campaign at the end of September 2022, panic arose, and Ukrainian citizens left the peninsula en masse. Some of the residents later returned home.. And in January 2023, the conscription was restored, but it is selective and mainly directed at the Crimean Tatars, because many of them support Ukraine for almost all these nine years of occupation. Therefore, many Crimean Tatars of military age are forced to hide or run away from Crimea.

“A lot of relatives and friends of the Crimean Tatars, who received summons. If they do not have time to leave the occupied territory and receive a summons, we advise you to surrender to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the first safe case.. We have the opportunity to do this,” advised Andrey Yusov, representative of the GUR.

In Crimea, the Russians create private military companies, where they invite former military personnel and other employees of law enforcement agencies, in particular officers. In the temporarily occupied Melitopol, collaborators organize companies where they recruit volunteers from all over the occupied Zaporozhye region for the Sudoplatov battalion. The mayor of the city, Ivan Fedorov, reports that the enemy even brought mercenaries from Serbia - among them are two executioners who are wanted by Interpol.

Now, on the left bank of the Kherson region, men try to go out only when absolutely necessary, because from time to time the invaders kidnap young guys in broad daylight. And civilians in the occupied territories are forced to play Russian roulette. But unfortunately not everyone is lucky..

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Or stay at home, or give the data.

The Russians studied the information about the inhabitants of the occupied cities, bypassing the courtyards of the locals and interrogating their neighbors. Many women unwittingly provided the enemy with personal data about their men when they applied for assistance in rubles.

Since help from the Russians has decreased, and information about men needs to be obtained somehow, the occupiers completely restrict the movement of people who do not provide any information about themselves. In Melitopol, they announced a ban on crossing checkpoints around the settlement from March 1 last year without special passes, which can be obtained at the so-called commandant's office only after providing personal information.

Occupiers don't even let Ukrainians work if they don't have a Russian passport. Therefore, civilians have two options: hide or run.. But how? The last and perhaps the only way to Ukraine - through the Vasilyevka checkpoint - has been blocked for more than a month, despite the promises of the occupiers to restore work there in mid-January. Therefore, men are forced to go through filtration camps and openly declare themselves: provide a passport, a military ID. If, for health reasons, they are fit for service, there is a high risk that the enemy will force them to join the army..

But this is not the only reason forcing Ukrainians to flee.. In order for as many people as possible to pass the filtration, the occupiers began to brutally shell the occupied territories and offer free “evacuation” to the Krasnodar Territory.

Those who were left without money agreed to be deported. Men seem to have gone through filtration camps and left for safer places, but will they become potential mobilized in this “evacuation”? Indeed, during the check, the Russians may not immediately take them to the front, but at the same time take away the Ukrainian passport and hand over the Russian residence permit. And then men, already as “new” citizens of Russia, are obliged to defend their “motherland”.

Tips from GUR.

How to protect yourself from Russian mobilization Today, the only way for residents of the occupied territories to leave is through Russia, but this window of opportunity is shrinking very quickly, because the Russian Federation is closing the borders to keep the population.

There is an option to travel to Europe through the territory of Belarus. The border with Russia is open there, and checkpoints with European countries also work.

First of all, the Russians issue subpoenas to those who were previously given a Russian passport.. That is, the obvious way is not to agree to receive Russian citizenship.

In case of forced mobilization, you can report it on the website of the National Information Bureau. If a Ukrainian stubbornly defends his rights, then there is a possibility that he may be thrown into prison, but he will not fall into a meat grinder on the front line.

You need to use any methods: health certificates, religious beliefs, anything so as not to become cannon fodder.. For the sake of saving your life, you can try to break out of the filtration camp even into hostile Russia and dissolve there until the end of the war, in order to return to Ukraine later.

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What to do for those who received the Russian agenda.

If you have already served a summons and there is no way to leave the occupied territories for controlled Ukraine or hide, you should use the state Ukrainian project “I want to live” to surrender. For this, the Ukrainian GUR advises to contact the hotline operators in advance or register in the project via a chat bot, stock up on a means of communication and, if possible, on the front line, agree on a voluntary and safe surrender to yourself or the entire unit. The main thing is to find a way to inform the Ukrainian defense forces and special services about their intentions..

" Here at least there is a chance for survival and understanding that you were forcibly mobilized, you didn’t fight, you can be released from responsibility and lead a normal life in the future,” said Petr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol.

In order to protect the rights of Ukrainians and punish participants in forced mobilization, at the beginning of January 2023, people's deputies proposed establishing criminal liability for forcing a citizen of Ukraine to be drafted into illegal armed or military companies..

On January 9, people's deputies submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a draft law "

But how to safely surrender? How Ukrainian courts will distinguish between cases when men went to fight voluntarily and when they were forced to? Will the Ukrainian who stood at the enemy checkpoint be punished

Andrey Yusov, a representative of the GUR, says: “If a citizen contacts the I Want to Live project in advance, leaves information on the website of the National Information Bureau that he was mobilized by force, this information will be taken into account. But the investigation must still prove that the mobilized did not commit war crimes against brothers-in-arms..

One way path.

So far more questions than answers. Now, not a single representative of the authorities can give specific advice, because we do not know what is really happening with all civilians in the occupied territories, and we will find out about this only after the complete de-occupation of Ukraine.

But we know one thing: now the main resource of Russians is people. And they do not spare this resource in order to achieve the goals of Putin and his entourage.. If the invaders send their men to hot spots after two weeks of training in 1948 outfit, what can we say about the forcibly mobilized Ukrainians, whom the military-political leadership of the Russian Federation is trying to simply destroy.

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