A military recruiter has been suspended from work in Russia’s Far East, a local official confirmed today, after thousands of people were mistakenly called up to fight in Ukraine, AFP reported.

In a Telegram video, Governor Mikhail Degtyarov said: “The Military Commissar of the Khabarovsk Territory, Yuri Laiko, has been suspended from work. This will not affect the task assigned to us by the president.”

He did not give a specific reason for his suspension, but indicated that it was “due to several errors”.

“Within ten days, thousands of citizens received a summons and went to military camps. We sent about half of them home because they do not meet the conditions for conscription into the army,” he added.

RIA Novosti, citing a representative of the military department, said that the serviceman suspended from work was transferred to the same center in the Magadan region, from where the military commissar was fired last week due to errors during mobilization.

An official confirmed that in Yakutia, a large region in eastern Siberia, about 300 men were mistakenly summoned and sent home, TASS reported.

On September 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “partial” mobilization to fight in Ukraine, where the Russian army is facing difficulties. Officially, it includes 300,000 reservists with military experience or related skills.

However, old people, students, the sick and people without military experience were called, which caused indignation and a reaction from the authorities.

Last week, Putin called for “correcting the mistakes” caused by the mobilization that sparked protests in Russia and the flight of thousands of men abroad.

Protests against the mobilization erupted, especially in Dagestan, an impoverished region in the Russian Caucasus, where, according to death records posted online, most soldiers died in Ukraine.

In the city of Derbent in Dagestan, cars recently drove through loudspeakers and called on all men, without exception, to appear before the authorities as part of the announcement of mobilization for the fight, follows from videos broadcast on social networks.

Derbent military commissar Farid Musaev responded last Thursday by apologizing via a video clip posted by the mayor’s office’s Telegram account and confirming that employees who broadcast these “incorrect” messages will be punished.