In Omsk, Men Are Being Rounded Up En Masse To Be Forcibly Sent To War
1- 27.10.2026, 20:52
Earlier reports indicated that there had been raids targeting conscripts in Moscow.
Omsk — one of three cities in Siberia with a population of over one million — is becoming the new epicenter of “forced mobilization,” following the Penza Region, where authorities first tested the practice of abducting men off the streets and sending them to the front lines in Ukraine.
According to the Omsk Civic Association, city residents are leaving reviews en masse on the “Sirius-55” military recruitment center’s page on 2GIS. According to Omsk residents, their relatives are being forced to sign contracts, beaten, and taken straight from the streets “to be sent to the front.”
“They’re taking people off the street and forcing them to sign contracts. My father went to the store—and disappeared. He’s 60 years old; they quickly issued him a second passport, and by the second day, they’d already taken him to Yugra. We haven’t heard a peep from him,” — writes one user.
According to another, her brother went to Omsk “with a crew” to work, disappeared, and then someone from the recruitment center called and said he had signed a contract. “They took him away without any documents or a phone,” — complains the user.
As the comments suggest, “Sirius” employees were not deterred by the age, health condition, or lack of documents of the men who ended up in their hands. “They kidnap people off the street, beat them up, bring them to this place, and hold them illegally. They force them to sign a contract,” complains Natalya in a review of “Sirius-55.” Another user reported that two of her acquaintances were “taken off the street.” The recruiters “do everything very quickly” and don’t let them contact their relatives, the comment states: “They bring in sick people, people with a squint, stroke victims, even undressed people who had just gone out to the store.”
Two such stories involve elderly people who were seized on the street in the evening. According to the accounts, relatives found one of the men, who had been beaten at “Sirius,” and took him back home.
Lawyers note a sharp increase in both the number of such incidents and their geographic spread during September and October. Complaints about forced military conscription have already been received from 33 regions of the Russian Federation and the annexed Crimea, notes “Versтка,” citing several human rights organizations.
As a rule, police officers, Russian Guard personnel, and military registration and enlistment office staff participate in these raids. They usually stop men on the streets under the pretext of a minor offense and take the detained passersby to military registration and enlistment offices or military units, where they are coerced—through deception, persuasion, or threats—into signing a contract. Sometimes, citizens who have come to the military registration and enlistment offices on their own, in response to summonses received through “Gosuslugi,” also find themselves in similar situations.
While in the spring and summer security forces used such methods in several regions—primarily the Penza Region—they are now employing them across Russian regions from the Republic of Karelia to Primorsky Krai. Even in Moscow at the end of October, there were reported cases of “hunts” targeting both young men to be sent for mandatory military service and older men to be recruited under contract.
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