Flights to the few cities abroad still offering direct service to Russia — most destinations have been cut off by sanctions — were suddenly sold out. “So, I doubt I will be spared now.”Military analysts said it was far from certain that the partial mobilization would be able to turn the flagging military campaign to Russia’s advantage quickly, if at all. Relatively contained but significant protests erupted not only in the big cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg, but also in Novosibirsk in remote Siberia. AdvertisementWhile Putin stopped short of declaring a full mobilization, which would entail a national draft, the partial mobilization immediately began upending the lives of reservists. Mobilization “means that thousands of Russian men — our fathers, brothers and husbands — will be thrown into the meat grinder of war.

Source: Washington Post September 22, 2022 22:48 UTC