He added that units have been established in Crimea, Belgorod, Bryansk, and Kursk to neutralize threats in the Russian border regions from Ukraine, said Yevgeny Burdinsky in an interview with the magazine "Military Commissariats of Russia" (.pdf).
A mandatory condition for citizens' participation in volunteer units was to carry out tasks in their respective regions, Mr. Burdinsky noted.
The majority of volunteers signed contracts to remain in the mobilization reserve after participating in the special military operation, the Colonel General added.
In his view, the work carried out by the Main Organizational and Mobilization Directorate (GOMU) to form the "Bars" volunteer units can be compared in scale to the organization of the people's militia during the Great Patriotic War.