Russia forcibly mobilized about 60,000 men in captured territories – Ukraine intel

That's according to Andrii Cherniak, a representative of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate, Ukrinform reports, citing the agency's press service.

"This is a violent mobilization: the occupiers were catching people on the street, they came to the few enterprises that were still operating and forcibly took people away - they simply changed their clothes and sent them to the front. They promised they would be on the second or third line, but people ended up on the front line," Cherniak said.

According to him, Russia also mobilizes students from the occupied territories.

"A person goes to study in the morning and is already fighting two days later. Strictly speaking, Russia does not consider residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions human beings, so the occupiers do not care, and the laws do not apply. The only real possibility [to survive] is to surrender immediately, at the first opportunity," Cherniak said.