Home POLITICS Valentina Matviyenko, chairwoman of Russia’s upper house, slams Putin’s mobilisation fiasco

Valentina Matviyenko, chairwoman of Russia’s upper house, slams Putin’s mobilisation fiasco

by asma

Valentina Matviyenko, the chairwoman of Russia’s upper house, the Federation Council, and a key Putin Ally, said she was aware of reports of men who should be ineligible for the draft being called up.

“Such excesses are absolutely unacceptable. And, I consider it absolutely right that they are triggering a sharp reaction in society,” she said in a post on the Telegram messaging app.

In a direct message to Russia’s regional governors – who she said had “full responsibility” for implementing the call-up – she wrote: “Ensure the implementation of partial mobilisation is carried out in full and absolute compliance with the outlined criteria. Without a single mistake.”

The warning comes after the editor of Russia’s RT news channel voiced her concern about sending call-up papers to the wrong men.

“It has been announced that privates can be recruited up to the age of 35. Summonses are going to 40-year-olds,” the RT editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, railed on her Telegram channel.

“They’re infuriating people, as if on purpose, as if out of spite. As if they’d been sent by Kyiv.”


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Image: Kremlin.ru


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