​Russia had to send home more than 9,000 people who were “illegally mobilized,” Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, CNN reports.

“By the efforts of supervision [Procuraturii Generale]More than 9,000 citizens who were illegally mobilized were sent home, including those who, due to their health, should not have been mobilized under any circumstances,” Krasnov said during a televised meeting with Putin in the Kremlin.

Mobilization in Russia has not been held for a long time, he added, and “many significant problems have been revealed.”

In addition, according to Krasnov, most of the problems with the supply of body armor and uniforms to the front have been “solved”.

“We are currently monitoring the provision of winter uniforms to mobilized servicemen, as well as the formation of proper and safe warehouses for them,” he said.

Russian citizens used crowdfunding to outfit the military stationed in Ukraine, as the military said it did not have even basic equipment.

Putin announced a “partial mobilization” in late September 2022 after Russia suffered a series of major setbacks on the battlefields of Ukraine.

The controversial project sparked protests and a flight of men from the country before it was suspended on November 1 after a target of 300,000 employees was reportedly reached.

Putin admitted that there are problems with reservists’ equipment

Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted in early December 2022 that there were certain problems with the purchase of equipment and clothing for the hundreds of thousands of soldiers that Moscow had recruited to fight in Ukraine in recent months.

He said then that some supply problems for the 300,000 men called up for a mobilization campaign in September and October were beginning to ease.

Also, in mid-December, Putin ordered the creation of a so-called working group to coordinate issues of mobilization and training of mobilized reservists.

Putin’s reaction comes after Russian soldiers and their relatives have complained for months about the conditions in which they are sent to war.

Russia’s first mobilization since World War II faced dissidents on the battlefields or refusing to fight in a context where they were not properly equipped or simply had nothing to eat, were not provided with equipment, and were also not trained.

On Nov. 25, Putin met with so-called mothers of soldiers fighting in Ukraine and promised to look into reports of violations in training, food supplies and lack of proper uniforms for soldiers fighting in what Russia calls a “special military operation.”

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Soldiers’ dissatisfaction with the lack of equipment led to violence

Dozens of videos and testimonies have gone viral on social media so far, showing the soldiers’ discontent and the shortage of any equipment and lack of training.

Thus, the problems begin with the training centers, which are archipelagos, and the soldiers get headaches, as in the case of the training centers of Russian soldiers in the Sverdlovsk region.

“Local doctors are not provided with the minimum necessary equipment, and patients are not provided with medicines,” reports SOTA.

SOTA notes that the mobilized live in extremely crowded conditions, as if in some kind of gym, which probably contributed to the spread of the disease.

A video that surfaced on social media in September shows new Russian conscripts in training being told to get absorbent pads and tampons to stop bleeding in case they are shot.

Another video that appeared on social networks shows how Russian conscripts, who have received an order for enlistment, are forced to build a fire in the forest in order not to freeze to death while waiting to be transported to training centers.

Sometimes the soldiers’ grievances lead to violence against their superiors. Let us recall here the case of a Russian officer who was beaten and cursed by a soldier, dissatisfied with the lack of equipment and training.