President Vladimir Putin has called for 160,000 men aged 18 to 30, the most conscription in Russia since 2011.
The spring call for a year of military service said the number of active military personnel has reached 1.5 million months after Putin said Russia should increase the overall size of its military to almost 2.39 million.
This is an increase of 180,000 over the next three years.
Vice President Vladimir Tsimlyansky said no new conscriptions would be sent to fight in Ukraine for what Russia calls a “special military operation.”
However, there have been reports that conscriptions were killed in battles in Russian border areas, and they were sent to fight in Ukraine in the early months of the full-scale war.
The current draft, which takes place between April and July, is occurring despite our attempts to forge a ceasefire in the war.
There was no missed Tuesday’s violence. Ukraine says 45,000 people lost electricity due to the Russian attack on urban electricity facilities in Minami city.
Russia also claimed it had captured another Ukrainian village in Rozlif, in the Donetsk region.
Russia calls drafts in the spring and fall, but the latest draft of 160,000 young men is 10,000 more than the same period in 2024.
Since its launch last year, the pool of young men available for drafts has increased by increasing the maximum age from 27 to 30.
In addition to call notifications delivered via mail, young men will receive notifications on the state services website Gosuslugi.
Apart from the draft twice the year, Russia also calls a large number of men as contract soldiers and recruits thousands of soldiers from North Korea.
Moscow had to deal with the massive losses in Ukraine. Over 100,000 have been verified by the BBC and Medizona as soldiers were killed in Ukraine.
True numbers can be more than doubled.
Putin has expanded the size of his army three times since ordering the army to capture Ukraine in February 2022.
The Russian Ministry of Defense has linked the increase in the size of its military in December 2023 to a “expanding threat” from both the war in Ukraine and the “continued expansion of NATO.”
NATO expanded to include Finland and Sweden as a direct result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Finland holds its longest border with Russia, 1,343km (834 miles), and Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said Tuesday that his country will join other neighboring states to withdraw from the Ottawa treaty, which bans opposition mines.
Poland and the Baltic countries made similar decisions two weeks ago due to military threats from Russia.
Orpo said the decision to reopen using anti-personnel mines was based on military advice and that Finlanders had nothing to worry about.
The Helsinki government also said defence spending would increase from 2.4% last year to 3% of economic output (GDP).
