Russia began, this Sunday, the second call for compulsory military service, in which it intends to recruit 130,000 citizens aged between 18 and 27. The recruitment also covers the annexed Ukrainian regions of Kherson, Zaporijia, Donetsk and Lugansk. Cited by Notícias ao Minuto, the Russian authorities guaranteed that the recruits will not be sent to the military action zones in Ukraine or to the units they occupy the “new regions”, a designation used by Moscow to describe the regions annexed a year ago. In August, the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, enacted a law that increased the maximum age for attending service by three years, up to 30 mandatory military service and which will come into force on January 1, 2024. The initiative to increase the age of military service was proposed at the end of last year by the Russian Minister of Defense, Serguéi Shoigú, after hundreds of thousands of men of military age abandoned Russia following the mobilization decreed by Putin in September 2022. Source:O País
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