Putin it away! Russians conscripts get the beers in and drink themselves senseless

The partial mobilisation is supposed to raise 300,000 troops, but there are suspicions that the true number the Kremlin aims for might be much higher Others have been using scooters to beat border queues and get out of Russia Incidents of recruitment officers turning up at the homes of dead men Insubordination is also rife as recruitment officers struggle to control their men Vladimir Putin's chaotic conscription of the Russian male population continues as more videos emerge of drunken insubordination and brawling by those being drafted into the Ukrainian meatgrinder. One Telegram video appeared to show a Russian recruit passed out in the grass by the runway as his comrades stumbled towards a waiting plane A coach-load of recruits stock up for the journey with crates of booze and giant bottles of vodka Another video posted to Telegram appears to show a group of unenthusiastic recruits waiting around at a recruitment office, some already passed out Russian men are still attempting to leave the country to escape the draft, with some resorting to scooters to beat the hours-long queues of cars that having built up at the crossing-point with Georgia Russian police have also sought to block access from the city of Vladikavkaz near the Georgian border, but so far 99 per of Russians at the crossing are being allowed to enter the ex-Soviet republic. Video has emerged purporting to show Russian conscripts drinking and brawling as they are loaded on to buses and transported towards the frontlines in Ukraine Multiple videos appear to show young Russian men drinking heavily as they are shipped off to war, suggesting that morale problems in the military are unlikely to improve as they arrive on the frontlines A man with a Z war symbol on his chest toasts with his fellow conscripts as they load on to a bus somewhere in Russia, before shipping out to fight against Ukraine Russian citizens are queuing for over 30 hours at the border with Georgia to flee Putin's call up Russia calling up the dead? Cars queue to enter Finland from Russia at Finland's most southern crossing point Vaalimaa, around three hour drive from the city of Saint Petersburg Serhiy Gaidai, Ukraine's Luhansk region governor, said that in the town of Starobilsk, Russian authorities banned the population from leaving the city until Tuesday and armed groups had been sent to search homes and coerce people to get out to take part in the referendum.