The Ministry of Defense announced the dispatch of mobilized to the self-proclaimed LPR and published footage of the meeting of armed soldiers with the inhabitants of the region.
“Complete bullshit”. How mobilized Russians are being prepared for war in Ukraine — the story of a private from Kaliningrad
In the video, women of different ages thank the servicemen and give them soft toys as a gift. The explanation says that the mobilized are being trained at one of the training grounds in the LPR, the specific location of which is not indicated.
“The population [of the region] is Russian-speaking, but we were forced to communicate only in the Ukrainian language,” one of the local residents tells the soldiers.
Mobilized on camera say that the population sees them as «liberators» and that «people here have learned to smile again.»
“Thank you all for your help. If we had known that this would happen, we would have arrived earlier,” said one of the servicemen.
A person mobilized from Kaliningrad told Mediazona that their training consisted of one-off firing at the firing range and 15-minute lectures on medicine, tactics, and the placement of mines.