these young Russians who said no to the general mobilization

He kept his military booklet: category A and health B. But he wants to keep his identity secret because he refused to fight in Ukraine. We will therefore call him Dmitri. Thursday, February 23, he confides why he refused the mobilization decreed by Vladimir Putin in September 2022. “I categorically refuse to participate in any way in the Russian military operation in Ukraine and to be sent to the front. You have to know how to resist the state and its administrative apparatus, even if it means going to prison.”

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“There are many ways to circumvent the mobilization”

In his twenties, Dmitri lives in hiding in Moscow while other Russian men have fled the country to avoid this general mobilization. “There are a lot of ways to circumvent the mobilization, like not reporting a move, which I did. Settling in a lost hole, the country is big and there are a lot of places to hide, and avoid gatherings so as not to be controlled by the police.”