Vladimir Putin has signed a decree setting out the routine spring conscription campaign. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has said Russia 'will certainly gain more land' and it was 'a tragic waste of life for Ukraine to attack a larger army' in a statement on X.
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 shows.All men in Russia are required to do a year-long 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.
In Russia, many men go to great lengths to avoid being handed conscription papers during the twice-yearly call-up periods.Conscripts cannot legally be deployed to fight outside Russia and were exempted from a limited mobilisation in 2022 that gathered at least 300,000 men with previous military training to fight in Ukraine - although some conscripts were sent to the front in error.
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