Kremlin official Dmitry Peskov said that he would not comment on war correspondent Alexander Sladkov’s remarks that Russian soldiers may begin to be recruited into border troops.
“I leave this without comment,” Peskov said in a briefing with reporters.
Only privates who have signed a contract with the FSB and have received secondary vocational education before being drafted into the military can serve in the border troops.
28 October Sladkov statedHe said that he learned about the decision to recruit soldiers for the border troops from a personal meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
At the beginning of October, the head of the Ministry of Defense, Sergei Shoigu statedThe General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces has no additional mobilization plan.
Putin before signed Law on raising the draft age.