MOSCOW, March 13. /TASS/. Rectors from four Ukrainian universities have received unspoken orders to expel underperforming students so that they can be called up for military service, Vladimir Rogov, leader of the We Are Together with Russia movement, said on Monday.

"Four rectors on territories controlled by the [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky regime told me that they had received an unspoken order to urgently expel underperforming students so that they can be called up [to the army]. This way, Zelensky is seeking to accumulate manpower to be sent to the slaughter," he said in an interview with the Soloviov Live television channel.

According to Rogov, Ukraine’s top brass have already said that even those who are exempt from being drafted due to health problems can be called up for military service.

Retired colonel of the People’s Militia of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) Andrey Marochko said on March 11 that the Ukrainian army command had deployed untrained mobilized soldiers from Dnieper (previously known as Dnepropetrovsk) to Kremennaya. According to Marochko, the soldiers were told at the conscription centers that they would be taken to a firing range for training.