Earlier, government officials quit in droves after a colleague who was conscripted as part of Russia's mobilization decree died in Ukraine.
Male employees left en masse from some of the largest departments, including housing and communal services, health care and education, and IT specialists, local news outlet NestkaMany of these officials reportedly left without officially resigning and notifying relevant authorities, while others fled without taking their personal belongings.
"They leave, leaving things at the workplace, without washing their mug," a source told the news outlet. Above, police and Russian National Guard servicemen patrol Red Square in front of the Spasskaya tower of the Kremlin in Moscow on October 24, 2022. Nearly one third of government officials in Moscow have reportedly fled Russia amid President Vladimir Putin's mobilization decree.Putin announced on September 21 that as many as 300,000 reservists would be called up to fight in Ukraine.
Russian journalist Roman Super, citing Kremlin sources, said on his Telegram channel on October 14 that government employees began handing in their notices following the death of Aleksey Martynov, the head of a department within the Moscow city government.killed on October 10"We have a mass exodus—employees leave, leaving notes in the nightstands. IT people, advertisers, marketers, PR people, and ordinary civil servants. A real mass exodus," a government source told Super.
"Let me remind you that yesterday it became known about the death of a mobilized employee of the Moscow government Aleksey Martynov," Super wrote.
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