Putin‘a spokesman Peskov who’s famous for notoriously making public statements in complete opposition to reality, which gave birth to meme “Don’t believe anything about Russia before Peskov denies it”, just denied the second wave of total conscription.
Today's news from Russia: all males of "military age" are forbidden to leave the country. Those who already left were announced "traitors of the state". Putin's seat-warmer Medvedev make a public post in his Telegram channel calling for their assassination wherever they live and work now.
I'm not joking.
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This might make you laugh, but later today Peskov denied the news of closed borders despite multiple reports to the contrary.
The Russian government is a joke.