In Donetsk Region, occupiers creating permanent conscription system - NRC

The occupation "head" of the Donetsk Region Denis Pushilin signed the "Decree on Conscription-2026", which fixes the transition from situational mobilization to a full-fledged and long-term conscription model. The document directly defines the age frame - men born in 1996-2008 - and launches a separate institutional system: the "DPR conscription commission" and a network of commissions in cities and districts. This is not a campaign, but the creation of a permanent apparatus for forcibly involving people in the war, reports the National Resistance Center (NRC).

The NRC emphasizes that the occupation administration is increasingly less oriented towards all-russian norms and is actually forming its own rules and structures. According to the Center, this indicates large-scale mobilization plans precisely in the temporarily occupied territories, where decisions are made faster and more strictly than in the aggressor country of the russian federation itself.

"Local "norm-making" allows for flexible expansion of conscription, circumventing formal restrictions, and lowering the eligibility threshold," the Center emphasizes.

Insiders at the Center also report that preparations for conscription have begun in advance: lists of men of conscription age have already been compiled on the ground based on data from passport services, employers, and educational institutions.

"Particular attention is paid to students and employees of the budget sector - those who are easiest to pressure through certificates, deferrals, and the threat of dismissal," the Center emphasizes.

A separate element is medical commissions. According to the Center, they are formally presented as a health check, but in reality they have received an unspoken instruction to minimize the number of "unfit". In conditions of degraded medicine, examinations are conducted formally, and decisions are often formulaic. The medical circuit is used not to protect people, but to legalize coercion, the Center emphasizes.

"Thus, Pushilin's decree demonstrates that the occupation administration is building its own mobilization infrastructure, not limited by the framework of russian legislation. This indicates the serious scale of the upcoming conscription and the transformation of the TOT into a zone of constant mobilization readiness, where war becomes a routine administrative procedure," the NRC summarizes.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the russians took children from the TOT of the Luhansk Region to religious events in the combat zone.