Anatoly Razinkin, Russia’s First Deputy Prosecutor General, said on Tuesday that the Russian prosecutor’s office had discovered a huge number of illegal conscriptions into the Russian armed forces after the partial mobilization decree last year, Interfax reported.

“We discovered more than 12,000 violations of the law in this area, filed more than 3,500 response acts and stopped unreasonable measures to recruit 15,000 citizens,” said Razinkin, speaking before the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament. presentation of the Prosecutor General’s report.

He noted that the prosecutor’s office “round-the-clock” monitored all stages of the partial mobilization after Russian President Vladimir Putin issued an order for it to be held on September 21 last year.

Given that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced in a televised speech immediately after Putin that the Russian army was mobilizing 300,000 “reservists,” Razinkin’s figure of 15,000 illegally incorporated individuals is 5% of the total force, on whom Russia intended to include in its armed forces.

Razinkin also told Russian senators on Tuesday that prosecutors were also included in the constituent commission, and thanked them for “stopping some abuses in time.”

“Partial” mobilization, the subject of a national scandal in Russia

The manner in which the mobilization was carried out last year caused a national scandal in Russia, the scale of the violations was so great that not even television or the state press in Moscow could cover them up, but they blamed the excesses of recruitment. or officials from different regions of the country.

Putin himself was forced to plead guilty after numerous recruits complained in messages and videos on social media that they had been illegally registered in violation of rules set by the Russian Ministry of Defense itself.

On October 5, the Russian president announced that he had signed a decree to correct “mistakes” made in the process of mobilizing “reservists.”

“This mobilization raises many questions. It is necessary to correct all mistakes and make sure that they are not repeated,” Putin reprimanded during a video conference with the Security Council, which was broadcast on Russian television.

He directly mentioned the challenge of the heads of large families, people with serious illnesses and the elderly, who should be exempted by law.

Previously, the press secretary of the Kremlin, Dmytro Peskov, in turn, admitted that “mistakes” were made during the mobilization, where it was supposed to involve reservists with military experience or useful skills, such as truck drivers.

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