Military offices will be closed in Moscow from Monday after the Kremlin’s quotas for recruiting reservists to fight in Ukraine have been met in the capital, the city’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, announced.
“Assembly points for mobilized persons will be closed on October 17, 2022, at 2:00 p.m.,” Sobyanin said.
He said the “partial mobilization task” – announced just over a month ago – had been “fully completed” in the city.
Sobyanin said that the letters of summons sent to Moscow were no longer valid.
However, he did not say how many Moscow men were called up.
The mayor’s announcement came three days after President Vladimir Putin promised to end his mobilization drive “within two weeks”.
The Russian leader said 222,000 people out of a target of 300,000 had already been mobilized.
Announced on September 21, Putin’s call led to a massive exodus of Russians to neighboring countries.
Thus, Moscow, which traditionally produces far fewer soldiers than Russia’s poorer and more remote regions, is the first to end mobilization.