Unverified reports of military registration office arson in at least dozen locations in Russia

At least a dozen locations have had reports of arson or attempted arson. The alleged targets have been military registration and enlistment offices in Russia. The source that provided these locations is Russian state-affiliated, so the information should be regarded as a lead, not as verified information.

Locations include Volgograd , Orenburg , Amur , Kaliningrad , Kaluga regions, Mordovia , Nizhny Novgorod , Khabarovsk , Kirovsk , Kansk , St. Petersburg . Also in Tomsk, has been reported several times as having experienced arson. OVD-Info, a Russian human rights activism group, corroborated reports in St. Petersburg, Volgograd, and Kaliningrad. OVD-info also shares that earlier reports of mining in St. Petersburg resulted in an arrest but people have been released, presumably indicating that they did not mine anything.

Russia blames encouragement from currently-imprisoned Alexei Navalny and Zelenskyy for encouraging protests. Notably, the War on Fakes channel portrays the conscription of people excluded from the mobilization decree as "mistakes."

Well-known Kremlin propagandist Margarita Simonyan has called extra-legal conscriptions a mistake and solicited submissions from people who were called up that should not have been. Simonyan's behavior could be an attempt to create space for people to vent without becoming a problem for the Kremlin.

She went so far as to say the mobilization was so chaotic that it was like the orders came from Kyiv.

Warfakes, a Russian disinformation source that presents like a fact-checking organization, posted on Sept 25, blaming Ukraine for the unrest within Russia. The post specifically mentions Dagestan, where rumors about large protests have recently arisen.