Vladimir Putin's conscription of the Russian male population is underway but new videos show the true face of the operation as men are seen drunk and unruly.
Just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilisation, the true reality of Putin's vicious war in Ukraine is evidently coming home to the desperate citizens of Russia.
Videos show reluctant conscripts at recruitment offices and staging points drinking themselves senseless as military commanders try to get them into order before boarding buses and planes.
The President confirmed the implementation of partial military mobilisation on Wednesday, in direct response to the so-called dangers posed by the west.
On Saturday, he said anyone who disobeys the order will get a decade in prison.
Multiple clips depict Russian recruits getting very drunk as they prepare to ship out for two weeks of basic training before being thrown onto the front lines.
One video shows a Russian conscript passed out in the grass near a runway while others stumble towards the plane, while in another a drunken group tries to have a punch-up as the bus waits for them.
"Shut your mouths! Why are you all yelling", a recruitment officer is heard barking at the new arrivals in yet another video.
"Why are YOU yelling?" they reply.
"Stop yelling, let him speak," another recruit says.
"That's it! Games over! You're all military now!" the officer shouts.
His ramshackle recruits also punched each other in a drunken brawl at the enlistment point in Yuzhno-Kurilsk, Kunashir island, in the disputed Kuril chain north of Japan.
Elsewhere in the Russian Far East vodka-soaked reservists have been spotted staggering towards their military assembly point on a remote airfield.
One had fallen over and appeared asleep or incapable in the grass as others laughed.
The reservists are due to start intensive training by regular army officers before being sent to the front.
A hidden paragraph in Putin's martial mobilisation decree allows the Russian Ministry of Defence to mobilise one million people, a source in Vladimir Putin's administration has informed the news outlet Novaya Gazeta, which is remarkably higher than the initial 300,000 suggested.
Many Russians are attempting to flee the country so they don't have to head to the frontlines.
Flights out of Russia to countries that don't require a visa, such as Turkey, have sold out and border crossings into nearby Armenia, Georgia and Kazakhstan are gridlocked by up to 30 hours.
