Invading Russian forces to mobilize Mariupol citizens in October - mayor's advisor Andryushchenko

He shared the details with Espreso TV. 

"The whole of Mariupol, I mean, except for the frankly Ukrainian stratum, which is at least 30% there, everyone else is trying to cling to this hope that Pushylin expressed. He said that for two or three years no one will mobilize anyone from Mariupol. Such self-deception. They do not serve summonses, but the departure, for example, to Ukraine, of men of mobilization age has actually been stopped. It is impossible to get to Vasylivka. At one of the last checkpoints, either near Berdyansk or near Tokmak, you will be turned around and told to "go home," Petro Andryushchenko said.

Petro Andryushchenko noted that the departure of Mariupol residents to Russia has become more difficult, as men of conscription age are kept in the so-called reserve in the city.

"It is also becoming increasingly difficult to go to Russia, that is, they are trying to keep a mobilization reserve in the city now. There are active talks about it, but from our insiders we know that everything has been ready there for a long time and they are only waiting for the team to arrive. And there is no doubt that in October we will see a global mobilization from Mariupol, in principle, to Rostov. There are several detention centers for refugees, where Mariupol men live, who went to get passports and process documents. There they have already started handing out summonses to all those who submitted documents, even without having received Russian documents for Russian citizenship. There they are handing out summonses to the army," Petro Andryushchenko said.

Petro Andryushchenko emphasized that the Russians demand that the country's authorities mobilize the residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions first, since they themselves wanted to join the Russian Federation. 

"In principle, I will tell you that from the Russian side it sounds quite powerful, both from propagandists and from ordinary Russians, that the residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions should be the first to be mobilized after this referendum. There is a certain logic in this, probably from the point of view of the Russians, but unfortunately, this logic has not yet reached Mariupol. I think that as soon as people see that they are being taken away by buses, they will understand, but it will be too late," he added.