Russians' enthusiasm for mobilization wanes — opposition politician
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Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:58:00 +0200

Russian opposition politician Mark Feygin stated this on Espreso TV."The Kremlin is acting more cunningly regarding mobilization – the Duma has determined that reservists (i.e., people who have served in the army) located on the territory of the Russian Federation can be forcibly sent to defense facilities. And this is a very broad list – these facilities can be in Crimea or in the Donetsk region. They are already looking at conscripts; formally, a conscript can be sent to Crimea and to the Kherson or Zaporizhzhia regions – not to the front line. But where is the non-front line there, considering UAVs? Previously, every six months (now they have made it a year-round conscription), up to 120,000-130,000 conscripts were recruited – the plan was 150,000, but 120,000-130,000 were recruited across the country every six months. Since there is no autumn and spring conscription now, the same 220,000 per year will be collected. But this is the reserve they are holding to throw into the war at some point," Feygin said.According to the politician, fewer and fewer Russians are being lured by money. The reason for this is the massive losses at the front. "The last option is mobilization. Not general, but some stage of partial mobilization, when people with military registration specialties of the 2nd category, older people who have long served their conscription, will be taken – such a probability is very high. Perhaps they will draw from reservists, people of other categories. After all, contractors no longer cover the deficit. You rightly said: the cumulative environment in which one could be lured by the ruble, or by threats, or from prison – but they are becoming fewer, they are dying in industrial quantities. Those who remain – no one is stupid, after the 4th year of the war, everyone has already understood that bullets are not paper," he added.Feygin emphasized that there is almost no family left in Russia that does not have dead or wounded in the war. Russians understand that this is a one-way street. Therefore, the Kremlin will resort to forced mobilization."And enthusiasm is decreasing. After all, after four years, there is no such family, street, or house where someone would not be somehow connected to the dead – acquaintances, neighbors, relatives. And this is not an abstract death – they are buried in cemeteries. No one has any illusions left; a trip to the front in Ukraine is not a fishing trip or a hunt. No, everyone has already realized that this is a one-way street. Therefore, it will be increasingly difficult to find volunteers for contracts; they will have to look for a form of coercion. There is no doubt they will find it," he concluded.In July, the Russian State Duma adopted amendments providing for the termination of Russian citizenship for refusing to register for military service and other crimes.On Tuesday, October 28, the Russian State Duma adopted a law providing for conscription for military service throughout the calendar year.








