Once in a military recruitment office, men may be threatened or beaten until they sign up for the war, they say. One video outside a military recruitment office shows men in civilian clothes sitting inside a military van barricaded by crying women. The head of Penza’s recruitment office, Andrey Surkov, told a government briefing that any raids in the region were targeting those avoiding service. The number of cases of forced recruitment has also risen, said Klyga and rights workers. Instead, they say, the Kremlin is still weighing the possibility of calling another round of forced mobilization, which could bring another several thousand soldiers to the front.