Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree defining the regime’s spring conscription campaign, calling 150,000 citizens to legal military service, a document released in the Kremlin on Sunday (March 31) showed.
In Russia, all men must complete one year of military service, or education as a component of higher education, starting at the age of 18.
In July, the Russian parliament voted to raise the maximum age at which men can be recruited from 27 to 30. The new law went into effect on January 1, 2024.
Conscription has long been a sensitive factor in Russia, where many men go to great lengths to avoid being approved for draft documents for six-month conscription periods.
Conscripts cannot be legally deployed to fight outside Russia and were exempt from a limited mobilization in 2022 that amassed at least 300,000 men with prior military education to fight in Ukraine; Some recruits were sent to the front by mistake.
In September, Putin signed an order calling for 130,000 more people for the fall campaign, and last spring, Russia planned to draft 147,000.
Russian attacks
Russian shelling has killed at least three other people elsewhere in eastern Ukraine on the front lines of the more than two-year-old war against Russia, local officials said, and two more in the Lviv region, from the front lines.
In the center of the northeastern city of Kharkiv, a common target of intense Russian attacks on energy and other infrastructure, regional governor Oleh Synehubov said an attack targeted civilian infrastructure overnight.
Regional media reported that aerial bombs had been dropped on other areas in the region. No injuries were reported.
Earlier on Sunday, heavy shelling killed a man in the town of Borova, southeast of Kharkiv, local prosecutors said.
Police in Ukraine’s southeastern Donetsk region said Russian shelling hit 14 towns and villages, killing two more people in Krasnohorivka, west of the Russian-controlled Donetsk regional center.
Russian forces captured the town of Avdiivka in the Donetsk region last month and have since made slight gains, but the scenario along the 1,000-kilometer front has changed little in months.
Attacks on infrastructure have spread far beyond the front line and Lviv regional governor Maksym Kozitskyi said two bodies had been pulled from the rubble after a cruise missile strike. Rescue operations continued throughout the day at the scene.
Across the border in Russia’s Belgorod region, a common target of Ukrainian shelling, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said a woman was killed when a border village was attacked.
It’s possible that Reuters simply independently verifies accounts of military moves across both sides.
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