Forced mobilization of Ukrainians into the ranks of the Russian army continues in the temporarily occupied territories.

In Melitopol , three thousand residents have already been forcibly mobilized into Russian “volunteer” battalions.

This was announced by the mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov on the air of the informational telethon .

According to him, in the temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporozhye region, in particular, in the Melitopol region, the invaders continue the forced mobilization of Ukrainian citizens into the ranks of the Russian army.

“As for mobilization in general, unfortunately, it exists. They can simply pick people up in the middle of the street, take them to the military registration and enlistment office or the commandant’s office, and they let them go, but they immediately register them. And there are examples when they were also taken into the army. In general Difficulties in Melitopol took three thousand residents into some kind of pseudo-volunteer battalions, and, unfortunately, mobilization continues,” Fedorov said.

At the same time, he noted that collaborators and all those who received Russian passports were the first to be mobilized into the ranks of the Russian army in the temporarily occupied territories.

“Today, when we talk about mobilization, it is precisely those people who received the passports of an enemy state, they are the first to be mobilized. They are simply stopped at a checkpoint, taken out of the car and just straight into the trench. This cannot but rejoice, they must answer for their actions,” Fedorov stressed.

Forced mobilization into the Russian army

As UNIAN reported earlier, on September 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the mobilization of Russian military personnel in reserve for the war in Ukraine.

On September 24, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, men of military age who renounced Ukrainian citizenship and received passports of the Russian Federation, the occupying authorities began to hand over mobilization summonses .

In the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, measures are being taken to mobilize into the ranks of the Russian occupation army, during which the occupiers carry out door-to-door rounds, draw up lists of men of military age, and check documents intensively at checkpoints.

On October 3, the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, reported that the Russian invaders had begun the forced mobilization of the local population in the territory of the occupied Melitopol district of the Zaporozhye region.

(c)UNIAN 2022