Agents from Russia’s national intelligence agency, the FSB, detained a Volga region blogger who had accused authorities of arresting men on the street in a major city to force them into military service, independent Russian news agencies reported on Friday. Reports said Penza city resident Stanislav Morozov, a local internet personality known as a Russian nationalist critical of corrupt big government and big business, in late June published comment on platforms he operates stating law enforcers were stopping men on the street, in shopping areas, in public transport and even after exiting homes and forcing them to travel in police vehicles to Ministry of Defense recruitment offices.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Russian military officers ordered to dragoon new men into military service accompanied the police squads in the city of Penza and the satellite communities of Kamenka and Kuznetsk, the SOTA news agency reported. According to SOTA and Morozov’s claims, once at the recruitment center authorities used pressure tactics to force detained men to sign military contracts “voluntarily.” If confirmed, the incidents affecting a reported several dozen military-age men would possibly be the Russian Federation’s first-ever deployments of press gangs operating in public and searching for men to force to become soldiers. Since Russia’s second invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Kremlin – faced with ballooning combat losses – has mobilized reserves, recruited in prisons, hired foreign fighters and pressured drafted soldiers to sign professional contracts to fill gaps in the ranks.