For several days this month, about a dozen women gathered outside the headquarters of the Western Military District in St. Petersburg to urge the Russian military to live up to the government's promise not to send draftees to the combat zone in Ukraine and in the Russian regions bordering Ukraine.'No Military Training At All' In the Volga region city of Ulyanovsk, a group of women -- the wives of men called up during the mobilization, which was declared completed on November 1 -- gathered in front of a military building on November 11 to demand their husbands be withdrawn from the combat zone."People are afraid of letting their loved ones down," said Tatyana, the wife of a mobilized man from Ulyanovsk who asked that her identity be concealed for fear of repercussions.Tsukanova added that she believes none of the soldiers in her son's unit have been sent to the combat zone, possibly out of desire to avoid "scandals" because of the growing protests against the deployment of draftees."But I don't know what will happen tomorrow," she concluded, adding that she worries that as soon as his conscription period expires, he will immediately be mobilized for additional service."