More than 5,000 people will be called up for military service during the 2023 spring conscription campaign in Moscow, the capital’s military commissar Colonel Maksim Loktev said. Words lead the way TASS.
“In Moscow, more than 5 thousand Muscovites will be called up for military service,” said the military commissar.
He added that such tasks are determined by the headquarters of the Western Military District.
formerly Loktev saidThat the work of about 150 draft commissions in the capital in Moscow was organized as part of the spring draft campaign. At the same time, he stressedSoldiers will not be sent for military service to the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.
Before that, the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Andrei Biryukov declarationThe first shipment of conscripts as part of the spring campaign will begin on April 20. According to him, a third of the soldiers will be sent to training units and military units, where in three months they will master modern military equipment and receive military specialties.
Conscription in Russia began on April 1 and will last until July 15. In total, it is planned to make calls to 147 thousand Russians.