The autumn conscription begins in Russia on October 1. The new round will also involve citizens from the occupied territories of Ukraine. Putin signed the decree.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced this as part of the so-called The recruitment campaign, which will start on October 1, will recruit people from the regions of Ukraine under military occupation.
Conscription of citizens into the army
The collection in the autumn of 2023 will cover the areas annexed as a result of the so-called referenda, areas in the Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhia oblasts, where the Russian population also lives.
The decree, signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, provides for the appointment of 130,000 conscripts. Men between the ages of 18 and 27 who are eligible for military service and are not in the reserve must be conscripted into the military.
President Putin has repeatedly stated in his public speeches that conscripts will not be sent to the war front. These guarantees are in stark contrast to the rumors appearing on Telegram channels that citizens are forced to sign contracts and then fight as professional soldiers in Ukraine.
Ukraine is also intensifying the process of inducting civilians into the army. General Leon Komornicki said a few days ago in an interview for Radio WNET that Kiev has decided to raise the age of conscripts to 34 years.
Volunteer units of Russia?
Russia’s TASS news agency reported that Putin met on Thursday with Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-beek Yevkurov and Andrei Troshev, a former commander of the Wagner Group.
According to the agency, the conversation was scheduled to take place on Thursday evening in the Kremlin and was about the creation of volunteer armed units to go to the area of the so-called special military operation (as the Russian side calls the war against Ukraine). The previous meeting on this topic took place at the end of June.
War in Ukraine
The new phase of the war that started in 2014 lasted 584 days. In tactical operations underway since early June and sometimes referred to in the media as a “counter-offensive,” Ukraine’s armed forces plan to break through the so-called “counter-offensive.” a land bridge along which Russia supplies its troops from Crimea in the south and east of Ukraine. To do this, Ukrainian units must break through Russian defenses and reach the Sea of Azov, or at least gain fire control.
The main battle is currently taking place in Zaporizhia and part of the Donbas. War analysts indicate that the Russian army leadership had to divert a significant part of the reserves there. The Russian side was most likely forced to limit the pace of offensive operations on the Kupiansk-Svatovo-Kreminna line. Both sides suffer heavy losses.
For Ukraine, much depends on the success of the ‘counter-offensive’, as a failed and bloody attempt to take over the occupied territory from Russian forces could weaken optimism among Kiev’s key Western allies and create pressure to negotiate on its terms to start negotiations with Moscow. .
Strictly military actions are accompanied by extensive propaganda and disinformation operations on both sides.
Source: Do Rzeczy

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