Putin's desperate goal: recruit 300,000 men for the Kremlin's war machine

The Russian city of Penza, located approximately 800 kilometers east of Moscow, has become the scene of intense military recruitment operations since the beginning of summer. Local security forces are conducting raids on streets and even in businesses to capture men of military age and force them to sign contracts to fight in the Ukraine war, generating a wave of panic among local residents. The Russian opposition warns that these events may be merely the prologue to a covert mobilization to send 300,000 men to the front, with the aim of escalating the military conflict in Eastern Europe.