The following are dynamic updates on the Russian draft situation by Amir Tsarfati

Updates:

• The stock market in Moscow is crashing and lost 8%.
• The Russian army call up papers are distributed to many in Russia’s biggest cities.
• Government online portals are telling people that they are to be drafted.
• The Russian news agency RIA reports: Russia and Belarus are holding security consultations in Moscow.
• A poster that has been circulating in Russia in the last few hours calling for people to come this evening at 7:00 PM to the demonstrate against the decision to expand the draft to the army for the war in Ukraine.

• Prices of flights out of Russia have tripled since Putin’s speech. The Russian men wants to flee out out of Russia.

• A draft notice to the military on the door of a Moscow resident. The recruitment of ex military civilians is the first step. Next is the ones who never served. Thousands of Russian men began to flee the country.

• Social network accounts in Russia: Russian Railways and airlines in Russia refuse to sell tickets to men between the ages 18 and 65.
• Long lines on the Russian border with Finland.

• More than 109 people have been arrested across Russia in anti-conscription protests, a human rights group said, hours after President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s first compulsory enlistment for military service since World War II. 
• Demonstration against the compulsory enlistment to military in St. Petersburg.

• An amazing event: Saudi Crowne Prince Mohamad Bin Salman mediates between the West and Putin in a prisoner exchange deal in Ukraine.  Five Britons, two Americans, a Croatian, a Swede and a Moroccan were released and arrived in Saudi Arabia.
• Senior American General: If Russia uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the US will destroy the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
• Reports: Starting tomorrow, checkpoints across Russia will be manned by military police and conscript men who will try to escape – will be taken to conscription or extended detention.

The panic in Russia has begun:

Demonstrations in large cities in Russia against conscription: at least 364 people were arrested in demonstrations within minutes, among them 96 in St. Petersburg, 89 in Moscow and 45 in Yekaterinburg.