A United Russia deputy called those who have been serving under contract "for the past year" alcoholics and homeless.
Last year, Krasnoyarsk A contract recruitment plan was issued—2000 people needed to be recruited. The head of the Railway Area Jury SavchukHe stated that his district had fallen short of its target by two people because the residential area had few "athletes aged 18 to 27." After this, the United Russia deputy Vyacheslav Dyukov answered to him:
"Over the past year, the people who have been recruiting contract soldiers here have mostly been alcoholics, homeless people, homeless people, prisoners, and so on. The Central and Zheleznodorozhny districts are old, central areas, where there are fewer of these types of people than on the outskirts of the city."
Savchuk also noted that 58 people were sent to war from the pretrial detention center in the Zheleznodorozhny district last year, but "they simply weren't counted."
"That's why we're trying, of course, to work with businesses now, and we're starting to work with bailiffs so they can find out where their debtors are, who haven't found jobs yet." — the official reported.