In Dagestan, a poor Russian region in the north Caucasus that has seen some of the biggest protests against Vladimir Putin’s mobilisation drive, governor Sergei Melikhov knew who to lay the blame on: overzealous local draft officers.
“Are you fucking morons?” Melikhov asked in a televised government meeting, reacting to a video showing a police van driving around towns blasting a message ordering all men to report to the draft office.
In Khabarovsk, in Russia’s far east, the governor this week sacked the local draft officer after half of those who had been called up were sent back home when it emerged they had been selected by mistake.
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