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Any trustworthy source that verifies those men are sent to military conscription offices?

I would guess that the video is just another crackdown on LGBTQ, as they have been doing: https://apnews.com/article/russia-lgbtq-crackdown-nightclub-...




One of the issued draft notices: https://t.me/ostorozhno_novosti/31737

Most of such stories are on Telegram, another example: https://t.me/akaloy/7128

Human rights activists advise young men to live somewhere else than their official address and to avoid public transportation, because raids at metro stations are commonplace, as the local news report:

  After the beginning of the autumn call, the police regularly conduct raids in which deviators are identified from military service. Security forces come to the hostels for migrants and warehouses in Moscow and the region, as well as check passengers in the subway. Over the past day, the police conducted raids near the metro station “Electrozavodsk”, and also presented 26 subpoenas to the army in the Krasnogorsk hostel.
Auto-translated from: https://msk1.ru/text/incidents/2024/11/01/74285744/




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