Russia’s Putin signs decree on spring military conscription

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Russia’s ****** signs decree on spring military conscription

Russian President Vladimir ****** addresses troops from the defense ministry, National Guard, FSB security service and interior ministry in central Moscow on June 27, 2023. 

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Russian President Vladimir ****** has signed a decree setting out the routine spring conscription campaign, calling up 150,000 citizens for statutory military service, a document posted on the Kremlin’s website showed on Sunday.

All men in Russia are required to do a year-long military service, or equivalent training during higher education, from the age of 18.

In July Russia’s lower house of parliament voted to raise the maximum age at which men can be conscripted to 30 from 27. The new legislation came into effect on Jan. 1, 2024.

Compulsory military service has long been a sensitive issue in Russia, where many men go to great lengths to avoid being handed conscription papers during the twice-yearly call-up periods.

Conscripts cannot legally be deployed to ****** outside Russia and were exempted from a limited mobilisation in 2022 that gathered at least 300,000 men with previous military training to ****** in Ukraine – although some conscripts were sent to the front in error.

In September ****** signed an order calling up 130,000 people for the autumn campaign and last spring Russia planned to conscript 147,000.

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