These are the keys to the partial mobilization in Russia announced by Putin

300,000 reservists will be called up, 1% of Russian citizens with military experience who could be mobilized. Surrender or desertion without justification could lead to prison sentences of up to ten years.

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The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, announced this Wednesday partial mobilization to, as he said, protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country, as well as to guarantee the security of the citizens of the occupied Ukrainian territories.

These are the main aspects of the measure decreed by Putin:

– The Army russian has more than two million menhalf of whom are technical and administrative staff.

– During partial mobilization they will be called up 300,000 reservists.

– The Minister of Defense, Sergei Shoigú, has encrypted in 25 million the number of Russians with military experience that could be mobilized. Partial mobilization will affect 1% of the total. Among those mobilized there will be specialists who work in state-owned companies.

– Russia rules out that students over 18 years of age can be mobilized, referring to university students and those who are studying vocational training.

– The reservists could be legally deployed in the Donbass and the occupied territories in the south of Ukraine if the Kremlin accepts their entry into Russia after the integration referendums that those territories will hold starting on Friday.

– The Duma or Lower House approved on Tuesday amendments to the criminal code, which prison sentences for soldiers for surrender and desertion without justification are toughened up to ten yearsin case of mobilization or martial law.

– Failure to comply with direct orders from a superior to participate in military or combat actions can also be punished with up to ten years in prison.

– Mobilized men could leave the service only for health reasons, if they reach the maximum age to serve in the army, or if a civil court orders their imprisonment.

– According to some local media, a majority of Russians opposes the Kremlin declaring general mobilizationalthough, according to official polls, two thirds of the inhabitants of this country support the military campaign.

– Shoigu has recognized the death of almost 6,000 Russian soldiers in Ukraine since the so-called “special military operation” began in February.

– The peace movement Vesná (Spring) has called a national protest against mobilizationto prevent fathers, brothers and husbands from being sent to the “meat grinder of war”.

– The Russian president prohibited in March the sending to the front of young Russians who were fulfilling compulsory military service.

– According to human rights organizations, the Army has deployed thousands of recruits in military units near the Ukrainian border in recent weeks.