Putin signs the decree, calls up 150 thousand men for military service

2024-03-31 11:56:39Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Putin signs the decree, calls up 150 thousand men for military service
Russian President Vladimir Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree setting out the routine spring conscription campaign, calling up 150,000 citizens for legal military service, according to a document posted on the Kremlin's website.

All men in Russia are required to do a year's 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 January 1 this year. In Russia, many men go to great lengths to avoid submitting draft papers during the twice-yearly draft periods.

Recruits cannot legally be deployed to fight outside Russia and were excluded from a limited mobilization in 2022 that gathered at least 300,000 men with previous military training to fight in Ukraine, although some recruits were sent to the front by mistake. In September, Putin signed an order calling for 130,000 men for the fall campaign, and last spring Russia planned to recruit 147,000.


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