Putin Orders Biggest Autumn Army Call-Up Since 2016

By Staff Writer With AFP

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday called up 135,000 men for routine military service, the country’s biggest autumn conscription drive since 2016.

Russia calls up men aged between 18 and 30 for compulsory military service each spring and autumn.

Conscripts are expected to serve for a year at a military base inside Russia, not to fight in Ukraine, although there have been reports of conscripted men being sent to the front line.

Russia’s annual conscription campaigns are unrelated to mobilization, in which Russian men are drafted to fight during wartime.

But conscripts who have completed military training are more likely to be called up to fight in the future.

In a decree issued Monday, Putin ordered “the conscription of 135,000 citizens of the Russian Federation from October 1 to December 31, 2025.”

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