According to ISW, this may happen after October 1, despite the fact that Ukrainians living in the occupied territories do not meet the legal criteria of the Kremlin's current decision on the mobilization of Russian citizens - Ukrainians do not have experience of service in the Russian army.

Experts of the Institute, referring to the leadership of the occupying power of Crimea, reported that the Russian authorities have already mobilized about 2,000 Ukrainians on the peninsula.

According to ISW, this is being done under duress.

In addition, in the occupied territories of Zaporizhia and Kherson regions, the occupying authorities banned men under the age of 35 from leaving the controlled territory of Ukraine, and in the Luhansk region they ordered the mobilization of all men.

According to ISW, protests against the mobilization took place on September 25 in at least 35 settlements in Russia, and on September 26 - in at least 10 settlements.

Now the leadership of Russia is trying to correct the mistakes that were made in the first days, when all men received calls for mobilization, regardless of age and combat experience.

"The Kremlin's current narrative is aimed at calming panic and its frenzied population by promising to fix and punish bureaucratic institutions for widespread "mistakes" in the mobilization campaign, but such messages are unlikely to solve the Kremlin's problems.

[...] The Kremlin risks further undermining this crucial bureaucratic institution at an important time by constantly blaming it for failures that are probably not entirely their fault.

Some Russians are already directing their anger at the military commissions," the Institute's experts note.

On September 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the mobilization.

He called her "partial."

It is claimed that up to 300,000 people from the military reserve are planned to be drafted into the army.

After the start of the mobilization campaign, a large number of Russians began to leave Russia to avoid being sent to war in Ukraine.

On September 24 and 25, five Russian publications independently reported that the authorities were considering the possibility of closing the border to all men of military age.

Putin's press secretary Dmitri Peskov said that no decisions have been made on this matter.

However, the Kremlin denied that the mobilization was possible even shortly before the announcement.