In the occupied Luhansk region, mobilized men are given obsolete weapons such as Mosin's rifles and Soviet helmets

Russia plans to mobilize nearly 60,000 men in the occupied territories of the Luhansk region, and the age limit has been raised from 55 to 65 years. The mobilized are used as cannon fodder.

According to local sources of the CI Prava Sprava's analytical department, forcibly mobilized men are armed with tsarist Russia rifles. 

Currently, the facts of arming the so-called "L\DPR" militia with Mosin rifles have been documented.

The Mosin-Nagant Rifle is a five-shot, internal magazine-fed military rifle used by the Russian Empire and the former Soviet Union. Mosin's rifle has been in service in various forms since 1891. 

Mosin's rifle production began in Russia in 1892 in the arsenals of Tula, Izhevsk, and Sestroretsk. 

However, due to Russia's limited production capacity, the French armory Manufacture Nationale d'Armes de Châtellerault received an additional order for 500,000 rifles.

These weapons remained in the former Soviet army's warehouses in Russia. Realizing a lack of their own material and technical base to provide "mobilized" people in Ukraine's occupied territories with samples of modern weapons, the occupiers give them this scrap. They were also given "more modern" helmets - model 1968 - SS-68 (steel helmet model 1968).

The appearance of the helmet is associated with the unification of the weapons of the former Warsaw Pact countries. During the selection process, the GDR M-56 helmet outperformed the Soviet SSH-60 by 3-6 percent during shelling.  In this regard, the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR directed the Technical Committee for Army Management to create a new helmet.

Unlike those "mobilized" in the "L / DPR," the Ukrainian military wears Kevlar helmets, which provide increased protection against shrapnel and bullet damage. 

As previously reported, the Kremlin is attempting to compensate for a lack of troops by using private military companies and forcibly mobilizing ORDLO residents. 

Currently, even students of higher educational institutions are forcibly mobilized in the occupied territories. Unlike in Ukraine, where university students are not subject to mobilization under the law.