In a video captured in the Russian city of Penza, women sob as their loved ones are loaded into a van by recruitment officers, apparently after the men were forced into signing military contracts. Similar reports have emerged from several Russian regions in recent weeks.
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Over more than four years of all-out war, Russia has used financial incentives, coercion, and threats to keep up the flow of men…
Police officers and military enlistment officials in Penza and Penza Oblast, Russia, are carrying out mass round-ups of men.
Earlier reports suggest recruitment efforts in Penza are widening as mobilization challenges grow.
The Russian state formerly avoided openly grabbing men on the street to force them to fight in Ukraine. A local official said it…
Russia is increasingly pressuring men into military service as voluntary recruitment slows, with military recruiters and police…
One local recruit reportedly died in combat just weeks after being coerced into signing a military contract.
