Among the hundreds of people who have been arrested during protests in Russia, some have received a summons, asking them to report quickly to a military office.
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Demonstrating opposition to power can lead to the front in Ukraine. Artem Kriger, of the independent online media SOTA, covers a demonstration in Moscow on Wednesday (September 21). He was arrested and imprisoned with 23 other people. “I was broadcasting livehe says. We were taken to the police station. The next morning, an old soldier came to us and summoned all the young people of military age to the military office. Everyone, indistinctly! There were those who had done their military service, those who had military experience… and then me.”
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In Russia, it is these military offices that issue mobilization orders to go to the front. Artem Grigory is still a student. He is therefore officially safe, because exempted, but he does not want to take the slightest risk: “I consider it intimidation. If you plan to go to demonstrations, they will scare us with this kind of summons.”
“I’m not scared, but I really don’t want to go. Anything can happen.”
Artem Kriger, journalist for the SOTA news siteat franceinfo
The young man would like to leave Russia. “But I don’t have enough money”, he said. He thinks of quitting his job as a journalist. Being arrested because of one’s activity is one thing, being sent into battle is another.