Russia began this Sunday the second call for compulsory military service, in which it intends to recruit 130,000 citizens between 18 and 27 years old and which includes the annexed Ukrainian regions of Kherson, Zaporizhia, Donetsk and Lugansk.
With the start of this year’s second recruiting campaign, which will last until December 31, a law came into force that increases the fine for failure to report to enlistment services to 30,000 rubles (a little more than $300).
The Russian authorities have guaranteed that the recruits will not be sent to military action zones in Ukraine or to units occupying the “new regions”, the name used by Moscow to describe the regions annexed a year ago: Kherson, Zaporizhia, Donetsk and Luhansk, despite not controlling all these territories.
Rear Admiral and Chief of Organization and Mobilization of the Russian General Staff, Vladimir Tsimlianski, stated this Friday that the number of “volunteers to participate in the special military operation [guerra na Ucrânia] is sufficient to fulfill the defined tasks.”
According to the official, the high command has no plans for “additional mobilization actions” for the military campaign in Ukraine.
In August, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a law that raised the maximum age for mandatory military service by three years, to 30, which will come into effect on January 1, 2024.
The initiative to raise the age of military service was proposed at the end of last year by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, after hundreds of thousands of men of military age left Russia following the mobilization decreed by Putin in September 2022.
Source: TSF
