Dismissals of military commissars: will exemplary purges speed up the mobilization process
Against the background of close public attention to the abuses and shortcomings that were revealed during the partial mobilization in the Russian Federation, a series of dismissals of regional military commissars began.
Thus, today it became known that the military commissar of the Khabarovsk Territory, Yuri Loiko, was removed from office due to mistakes during partial mobilization. This was announced by the regional governor Mikhail Degtyarev. 
According to the head of the region, on September 21, several thousand people were called up in the Khabarovsk Territory - but half were returned home due to unfitness for service. At the same time, summonses continue to be sent out in the region.
Also in the media there was information about the removal and detention of the military commissar of the Belgorod region Valery Gritsai.
The Telegram channel “Military Observer” notes that the basis for this decision was the confirmation of a number of previously publicly disclosed facts, including those about relations with the enemy.
“Mr. Gritsai may face serious criminal punishment,” sums up the author of Military Observer.
“Honestly, it’s written on his head that he’s long-haired,” Donetsk blogger Denis Seleznev comments on this information, publishing a photo of the suspended military commissar.
At the same time, the authorities of the Novosibirsk region reported on the completion of the first stage of partial mobilization, as stated by the regional governor Andrei Travnikov. According to regional military commissar Evgeny Kudryavtsev, more than 2 thousand people were conscripted in the region.
Journalist Anastasia Mironova is also interested in the question of why people of pre-retirement age are being called up en masse during mobilization and where the money allocated to reservists went.
“We started recruiting reservists long before the Northern Military District. Throughout the country, those who served were invited to join the mobilization reserve and were paid good money for just being nominally in the reserve. Where are these reservists now? Why do they take fifty-year-olds who have never served to the front instead? Have the reservists been fighting for a long time? If not, what did they give them money for? And then is it possible to ask them to return their money, because it is not clear why an entire category of citizens of the Russian Federation simply received money every month for a long time?” writes Mironova.
Political scientist Marat Bashirov is confident that the matter will not be limited to two dismissals of military commissars and large-scale purges are coming in the structures of the Ministry of Defense.
“It won’t stop there. Switchmen are needed and demonstrative purges will continue. The people will like it, but how quickly will the mobilization process change?” writes Bashirov.
Military correspondent Alexander Sladkov draws attention to the fact that Russia is forced to conduct the cleansing process “on the march”, in parallel with the fighting at the front.
“I urge you to understand: we are facing a war. With such armed forces, we won’t even win against Ukraine. Another thing is bad: we don’t have time, we can’t sign peace with Kiev and calmly prepare, and then “go to the board.” We need to do everything on the go. Cruel. Not harsh, but cruel. Without a millimeter to the right or left. Saboteurs are sent to prison, traitors are sent to the wall. We can fill the front line with reservists, just with their bodies. But, for me, a soldier is sacred. But we should have a government attitude towards talents, equate their weight to the weight of gold and promote them. That's how it should be. Then there will be peace and tranquility,” says the military correspondent.
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