Youth attacks in Moscow raise conscription concerns as Russia struggles to recruit soldiers.
Russian police arrested more than 200 young men in Moscow on November 7, handing some military summonses as Russia struggles to recruit enough men for its war against Ukraine.
Ivan Chubilaev, a spokesman for the Russian anti-war group Idite Lesom (Get Lost), calls this part of Russia's "hybrid conscription" — enlisting men through pressure and other methods without announcing further formal conscription.
"They just cast a wide net, and whoever gets caught gets caught," he told the Kyiv Independent.
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