Russia: 10,000 people volunteered to fight in Ukraine on the first day of mobilization

The Russian Army's General Staff announced Thursday that about ten thousand people volunteered to mobilize to fight in Ukraine in the last 24 hours, after President Vladimir Putin announced in this regard.

"On the first day of the partial mobilization, about ten thousand citizens spontaneously arrived at the recruitment centers without waiting for their summons," Vladimir Tsimlyansky, a spokesman for the General Staff, told Interfax.

Scenes circulated on social networks showed the mobilization in one of the regions of Yakutsk in Siberia, in which men without any expressions appeared to say goodbye to their relatives before boarding a bus.

In other scenes posted on the Mash network on Telegram, a column of men can be seen standing at night in front of a plane transporting soldiers parked on the runway.

In a video recording purportedly taken in Chechnya, the Russian republic in the Caucasus, dozens of young men are seen walking along the road escorted by police.

The Ministry of Defense did not publish any official scenes of the mobilization and did not indicate the number of those called up to join the army.

On Wednesday, the Russian president announced a "partial mobilization" of about 300,000 reservists with "military experience".

But many Russians fear a broader mobilization.

More than 1,300 people were arrested in Russia on Wednesday during spontaneous demonstrations against the mobilization.

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