MOSCOW
\nRussian President 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\u2019s website showed on Sunday.
\nAll men in Russia are required to do a year-long military service, or equivalent training during higher education, from the age of 18.
\nIn July Russia\u2019s 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 Jan. 1, 2024.
\nCompulsory military service has long been a sensitive issue in Russia, where many men go to great lengths to avoid being handed conscription papers during the twice-yearly call-up periods.
\nConscripts cannot legally be deployed to fight outside Russia and were exempted from a limited mobilization in 2022 that gathered at least 300,000 men with previous military training to fight in Ukraine \u2014 although some conscripts were sent to the front in error. In September Putin signed an order calling up 130,000 people for the autumn campaign and last spring Russia planned to conscript 147,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MOSCOW Russian President 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\u2019s website showed on Sunday. All men in Russia are required to do a year-long military service, or equivalent training during higher education, from the age […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-397640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n