Newsweek reports the Kremlin is dealing with significantly more domestic unrest in the weeks after the mutiny of Wagner forces that were fighting in Ukraine unsettled Russian President Vladimir Putin, with protests springing up in Russian-occupied Crimea.
Ukrainian intelligence officials report that native ethnic Crimean Tatar citizens have been rounded up and imprisoned by Russian occupiers after various protests popped up in the last weeks. Crimea is primarily populated by Russians and Russia-favoring Ukrainians since the 2014 Russian occupation of the territory when most of the ethnic Tatar and Ukrainians fled the region.
Additionally, no fewer than eight military recruitment offices were set afire throughout Russia since Saturday in overt opposition to Putin’s ongoing conscription orders pulling citizens into the invasion effort.