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Related: About this forumRussian airlines staff start to receive conscription notices
(Reuters) - Russian employees at airlines and airports have started to receive conscription notices after President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial military mobilisation, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Friday citing sources.
Employees of at least five airlines, including Russian top carrier Aeroflot, and staff at more than 10 airports received notices within a day of Putin ordering the mobilisation, the paper reported.
According to sources in three companies, potentially 50-80% of the employees could be called up, with a source close to Aeroflot saying that over half of the staff at three of the group's airlines potentially could be drafted, Kommersant said.
Aeroflot declined to comment.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russian-airlines-staff-start-receive-082404188.html
Guess Pooty figures it's one way to keep people from flying out of the country.
PJMcK
(22,048 posts)He knows hes lost but he wont accept it.
This is very dangerous.
Lovie777
(12,327 posts)2020 election, although what Putin is doing at this point in time is far more violent and is attacking a unprovoked country that Putin is obsessed with.
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,399 posts)Also others are pointing out, what better way to make sure men cannot flee the country by
shutting down the airlines?
2naSalit
(86,780 posts)Fly to other countries and defect!