Russian police are targeting migrants and draft-age men in a wave of raids on gyms and martial arts clubs across major cities, with activists describing them as part of a broader crackdown that intensified ahead of the country’s spring military draft. /-/ Similar raids have since been reported at other Spirit Fitness locations, as well as gyms in the cities of St. Petersburg, Irkutsk, Yekaterinburg and Krasnodar, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s regional desk Sever Realii. /-/ Lawyers in multiple regions told Sever Realii that gym raids now happen at least twice a month in major cities. Russian citizens are typically sent to enlistment offices, while foreign nationals are taken to temporary detention centers. Many are ultimately deported.

Conscripts army exists in Russia for decades, it's a mandatory service unless you are not fit due to some illness or due to higher education exceptions. Russia conscripts from every region proportionally to a population about 160k people every half a year (1 year mandatory service). These people do not participate in Ukrainian war directly unless they're part of the border guard and Ukraine tries to breach it.

And there's a professional army, with contracts. That's who is fighting in Ukraine. Conscripts after their mandatory service is finished may sign or not sign a professional contract. MoD hires soldiers in every region, pays good salaries, but this salary is very lucrative for periphery regions, but not as attractive compared to some jobs in cities like Moscow or St.Petersburg. Yet, they increased bonuses for two capitals compared to other cities. So, overall, most soldiers are not from Msk or SPb, but every region has enough volunteers so far to not mobilize.

That's bullshit. Everybody who is able to not just repeat some propaganda from their local media but to read a Minsk agreements, or read Istanbul agreements from 2022 that Boris ordered Zelensky to reject, or terms of current negotiations may notice, that up to this day Russia doesn't even demand a regime change, not to mention Ukraine destruction. Russia is fine with sovereign Ukraine, this war started just because Ukraine lost it's sovereignty, and installed puppet regime turned Ukraine into Anti-Russia.

>and to avoid enslavement and genocide of its people

Another lie. Ukrainian citizens in a regions Russia occupies are getting Russian citizenship. They're citizens of Russia with the same rights as any other citizen of Russia. And if you look at all the numbers of civilian casualties, this war is the most bloodless war in known history compared to soldiers losses. Israel murdered more palestinians in 3 months after their recent invasion of Gaza than Ukrainian civilians got killed in the last 3 years in Ukraine. So stop this bullshit about genocide.