The draft campaign in Russia will begin on April 1 and end on July 15, 134,500 people will be recruited.
Against the backdrop of stopping the Russian army’s offensive in Ukraine, spring conscription begins in the Russian Federation itself. Russia promised not to send conscripts to the war in Ukraine, but such facts were repeatedly confirmed, and the Russians themselves acknowledged them.
Call to war
Russia’s declared 134,500 conscripts is less than called in the spring of 2021, but 7,000 more people than last fall.
Russia has confirmed that Russian conscripts have been captured in Ukraine. From official statements, it allegedly followed that they had been returned to Russia. Also killed? The military prosecutor’s office was tasked to investigate how the conscripts got to Ukraine following Moscow’s statements that it would not happen.
On March 8, a day before the RF Ministry of Defense acknowledged the “numerous facts of the presence” of conscripts in Ukraine, Putin insisted: “Soldiers on active duty do not and will not participate in the fighting. No further calls – up reserves from the reserve “.
covert mobilization
Ukraine’s military expert Nikolai Sungurovsky said Russia is now trying to pull new forces and reserves into the Donbass for a definite blow to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“What can Russia attract to solve these problems? These are the opportunities that Putin will surely receive by conducting a draft campaign in the spring. I doubt that they will recruit 134.5 thousand people, such as they promised, first, and second, that they would not only recruit young and untrained people.According to their plan, the reservists of the first stage should be the basis of this call.That is, those who have been trained “It’s so, quite speaking, preparation. They don’t have much training there. They once served in the RF Armed Forces. We know how the most prepared forces were crushed in this so -called blitzkrieg,” Sungurovsky believed.
According to the expert, the Russians will try to put such conscripts on equipment that is now removed from long -term storage and send it to Ukraine. But it will not bring any special results to the Kremlin, Sungurovsky stressed.
Source: korrespondent
