Officials who work in the Moscow city administration and in the federal government of the Russian capital flee from partial mobilization, writes dpa.

“In some departments (of the Moscow administration), the number of male employees who left Russia is 20-30% of the total number of employees,” the Viorstka site writes.

In particular, the Haitians fled to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the website says.

This is because many civil servants, especially at the lower administrative level, are not immune to the possibility of being mobilized in conditions where they are not considered “indispensable”, explains Verstka.

The death in Ukraine of the head of the department of the Moscow City Hall just a few days after the partial mobilization in Russia not only hit the front pages of newspapers, but also caused panic among his colleagues.

Paralyzed activity

According to the cited website, this outflow has paralyzed activities in several departments, such as the housing and communal administration or the health and education departments, writes Agerpres with reference to DPA. In subordinate federal ministries, institutions also noticed the consequences of a lack of personnel.

The political and military leadership of the Russian Federation promised some groups of Russians to release them from mobilization, especially the Aitishniks. However, confirmation of this status is associated with a long bureaucratic procedure.

The Russian authorities do not officially comment on the information about the escape of officials from Russia.

President Vladimir Putin on September 21 announced what he called a “partial mobilization” aimed at recruiting 300,000 men into the armed forces, in the context of a series of military defeats in Ukraine.

The decree sparked outrage across the country, with a series of violent attacks on local officers in charge of mobilization, and more than 2,000 people arrested for taking part in anti-mobilization protests.

Since then, hundreds of thousands of men of draft age have left Russia, most of whom have gone to visa-free countries such as Georgia, Armenia and Kazakhstan.

Russian authorities have admitted to “mistakes”: older or immature men are mistakenly notified of mobilization.

Almost half a million Russians have been mobilized since mid-October

A statistical analysis by the independent Russian media outlet Mediazona shows that around 492,000 men could have been drafted into the army after Russian leader Vladimir Putin announced the “partial mobilization” of 300,000 men on September 21, the Kyiv Independent quoted.

Mediazona’s estimate was extrapolated from the explosion in registered marriages, as recruited men can register in a day instead of waiting a month as usual. Mediazona counted the number of registered weddings in 75 regions, comparing this number with the percentage of unmarried couples to get the proportion mobilized, resulting in a final estimate of 492,000 across the country.

On October 14, Putin announced that this campaign of “partial mobilization” of Russia would end in two weeks. The 300,000 figure was met with skepticism from the start, with the liberal Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reporting on September 22 that the real target was one million.

Russia sends untrained soldiers to the front

The chaotic method of mobilization caused a national scandal in Russia and protests in some regions, the scale of the violations was so great that even television stations in Moscow were forced to pay attention to the topic.

But despite assurances from Russian officials and propaganda television, numerous messages and videos have appeared on social media, some of them filmed by the recruits themselves, that men mobilized in Russia after September 21, when President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization, are being sent to the front almost without preparation.

Some of the recruits mobilized over the past month were captured by the Ukrainian military just a few days after they received their enlistment orders and were urgently sent to the front.