ussian President Vladimir Putin's reign is now "closer to the end," a Russian official who now faces conscription under the leader's partial mobilization decree has said.

Dmitry Baltrukov, 43, is one of many municipal deputies for Smolninskoe in St. Petersburg who appealed to the country's parliament last month to remove Putin from power on the charge of high treason over the Ukraine war.

The price: a 44,000 ruble ($758) fine for "discrediting" the Russian army, and now, the official has been ordered to enlist and serve in Ukraine, something he believes is a deliberate attempt to "get rid" of him, given that he does not meet the defense ministry's criteria to be drafted.