The military commissioner of the Russian city of Konakowo wants to recruit volunteers for deployment in the neighboring country via video call. For at least three months, the possible candidates should commit themselves with a payment of up to 6800 euros. In Ukraine, the call was met with ridicule.
To reinforce Russia's troops in the war in Ukraine, the military commissar of the Russian city of Konakovo has video called for volunteers to fight in the neighboring country. There are contracts for a period of three months or more with a payment of 200,000 to 400,000 rubles (3400 to 6800 euros), said military commissioner Yuri Negowora in the video. He didn't say what period the money is for. "It is necessary to have good health - and the desire," he said. The city, around 120 kilometers northwest of Moscow, published the appeal on its website.
In social networks in Ukraine, people made fun of the call of the old man in uniform, who is always looking for words. So far it is already with the deployment of the Russians that such calls are necessary.
There are repeated reports in Russia that members of the security structures are fighting back against a combat mission in Ukraine. In the Pacific region of Primorye, the governor Oleg Koshemyako had previously announced the formation of a volunteer battalion for the fight in Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov welcomed the initiative. She deserves "the highest esteem". He only hopes that the governor himself will continue to do his job and not go into battle.
Responding to media reports that such a regiment had been set up in the name of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and was being financed from the city budget, Peskov said: "No, we don't know anything about that."
Almost five months into the war, reports are mounting that Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin does not have enough personnel to invade the country. That is why there has long been speculation in Russia about a possible general mobilization, which the Kremlin says is not planned.
