Putin signs conscription decree calling up 150,000 men for military service

Putin calls up another 150,000 Russians for military service

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called up yet another 150,000 people for statutory military service in Russia amid losses in Ukraine.

Putin signs decree calling up 150,000 citizens for statutory military service

Russian President Vladimir Putin 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 (31 March).

Spring conscription for military service in Russia began on April 1. The corresponding decree of the president of the country, Vladimir Putin, was published on the official legal information portal. It is said that it is planned to conscript 150 thousand young people aged 18 to 30 years for contract service. The campaign will end on July 15, as previously reported by Deputy Chief of the Main Organizational-Mobilization Management Department of t…

Starting next Monday, Russia will be drafting 150,000 conscripts into basic military service. Observers fear that they will be used specifically for bloodshed in Ukraine. For more than two years, Russia has been waging a brutal war of aggression on its neighboring country and is trying by all means to subjugate the Ukrainian people. Losses are huge on both sides. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky repeatedly accuses Putin of treating his own…

Putin calls up 150,000 men for military service - but won't fight in Ukraine

New Russian laws have made it more difficult for men to escape the regular conscription campaigns happening twice a year.

Russia’s Putin signs decree on spring military conscription

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