President of the aggressor country of the russian federation vladimir putin has signed a decree on the spring conscription for military service. According to the document, 160,000 people are planned to be called up for military service. This was reported by the official website of the Kremlin.
The spring conscription campaign will last from April 1 to June 15, citizens aged 18 to 30 are called up for military service. The decree also provides for the discharge from service of those military personnel whose conscription period has expired.
According to The Moscow Times, the current conscription campaign will be the largest in the last 14 years. The last time a larger number of recruits - 203,000 people - was recorded in 2011.
Since the beginning of the full-scale war against Ukraine, russia has consistently increased the number of conscripts. In 2022, 134,500 people were sent to the army in the spring, 120,000 in the fall. In 2023, the spring conscription amounted to 147,000, and the fall conscription - to 130,000. In 2024, the trend continued: 150,000 were conscripted in the spring, and 133,000 in the fall.
In June 2024, the State Duma increased the upper age limit for conscription from 27 to 30 years, which will potentially increase the number of conscripts by more than two million in the coming years.
The russian Ministry of Defense assures that conscripts will not be sent to war against Ukraine, nor will they serve in territories temporarily occupied by russia. At the same time, previous experience shows that russia uses conscripts in war, sending them to serve in border regions, after which the mobilized are involved in conducting hostilities against Ukraine.
Earlier, the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council, Andrii Kovalenko, stated that the russian federation has begun preparing its population for possible mobilization, arguing this with a possible war with Europe.
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