A billboard promoting contract army service with an image of a serviceman and the slogan reading “Serving Russia is a real job” sits in Saint Petersburg on September 20, 2022. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)





People walk along the street with the murals on display on multi-storey apartment blocks during the international festival Urban Morphogenesis, held in the town of Balashikha outside Moscow, Russia on September 20, 2022. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





Painters work on a mural on a multi-storey apartment block during the international festival Urban Morphogenesis held in the town of Balashikha outside Moscow, Russia on September 20, 2022. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





Lidia, a 75-year-old refugee from Mariupol, drinks morning tea as she is silhouetted against a TV screen displaying Russian President Vladimir Putin during a televised address to the nation, in Moscow, Russia, 21 September 2022. President Putin has signed a decree on partial mobilization in the Russian Federation, with mobilization activities starting on 21 September. Russian citizens who are in the reserve will be called up for military service. (Photo by Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Police officers detain a man in Novosibirsk on September 21, 2022, following calls to protest against partial mobilisation announced by President Vladimir Putin. President Vladimir Putin called up Russian military reservists on September 21, saying his promise to use all military means in Ukraine was “no bluff”, and hinting that Moscow was prepared to use nuclear weapons. His mobilisation call comes as Moscow-held regions of Ukraine prepare to hold annexation referendums this week, dramatically upping the stakes in the seven-month conflict by allowing Moscow to accuse Ukraine of attacking Russian territory. (Photo by Rostislav Netisov/AFP Photo)





Russian police officers detain a person during an unsanctioned rally, after opposition activists called for street protests against the mobilization of reservists ordered by President Vladimir Putin, in Moscow on September 21, 2022. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Police detain a demonstrator during a protest against mobilization in Yekaterinburg, Russia, Wednesday, September 21, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a partial mobilization of reservists in Russia, effective immediately. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Police detain demonstrators during a protest against mobilization in Yekaterinburg, Russia, Wednesday, September 21, 2022. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Riot police detain demonstrators during a protest against mobilization in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, September 21, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a partial mobilization of reservists in Russia, effective immediately. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Police detain demonstrators during a protest against mobilization in Yekaterinburg, Russia, Wednesday, September 21, 2022. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Police detain a demonstrator during a protest against mobilization in Yekaterinburg, Russia, Wednesday, September 21, 2022. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Police officers detain a man in Moscow on September 21, 2022, following calls to protest against partial mobilisation announced by President Vladimir Putin. President Vladimir Putin called up Russian military reservists on September 21, saying his promise to use all military means in Ukraine was “no bluff”, and hinting that Moscow was prepared to use nuclear weapons. His mobilisation call comes as Moscow-held regions of Ukraine prepare to hold annexation referendums this week, dramatically upping the stakes in the seven-month conflict by allowing Moscow to accuse Ukraine of attacking Russian territory. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





Police officers detain demonstrators in Saint Petersburg on September 21, 2022. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)





An activist participates in an unsanctioned protest on Arbat Street, Moscow on September 21, 2022. The sign, which plays on the word mobilisation, reads: “No burialisation”. (Photo by Getty Images/Stringer)





Police officers detain a woman following calls to protest against partial mobilisation announced by Russian President, in Moscow, on September 21, 2022. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





A man from Luhansk region, the territory controlled by a pro-Russia separatist government, but who lives in Russia, votes at temporary accommodation facility in Volgograd, Russia, Friday, September 23, 2022. Voting began Friday in four Moscow-held regions of Ukraine on referendums to become part of Russia. Polls also opened in Russia, where refugees from regions under Russian control can cast their votes. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Police officers detain demonstrators in Saint Petersburg on September 21, 2022, following calls to protest against partial mobilisation announced by President Vladimir Putin. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)





In this image taken from video, a Russian draftee kisses his partner before boarding a bus to be sent to the military units of the Eastern Military District, in Yakutsk, Russia, Friday, September 23, 2022. Mobilization is underway in Russia's Far Eastern region of Yakutia after President Vladimir Putin ordered a partial mobilization of reservists Wednesday to bolster his forces in Ukraine. (Photo by AP Photo/Stringer)





Police officers detain a man in Saint Petersburg on September 24, 2022, following calls to protest against the partial mobilisation announced by the Russian President. Russian authorities detained more than 700 people, on September 24, 2022, at protests against partial mobilisation this week ordered by President Vladimir Putin, according to independent monitoring group OVD-Info. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





Russian policemen detain a participant taking part in an unauthorized protest against Russia's partial military mobilization due to the conflict in Ukraine, in downtown of Moscow, Russia, 24 September 2022. Russian President Putin announced in a televised address to the nation on 21 September, that he signed a decree on partial mobilization in the Russian Federation. Russian citizens who are in the reserve will be called up for military service. On 24 February 2022 Russian troops entered the Ukrainian territory in what the Russian president declared a “Special Military Operation”, starting an armed conflict that has provoked destruction and a humanitarian crisis. (Photo by Maxim Shipenkov/EPA/EFE)