Russia hires more contractors trying to avoid unpopular mobilization - the media

The Army Command of the Russian Federation is partly restricted that some present conscripts will sign contracts. This spring, 150,000 Russians can be called up for conscript military service. The Kremlin seeks to prevent the repetition of mobilization in September 2022, which has shaken public trust and provoked escape from the country to a million Russians, so Russia hires more contractors. About it reports Bloomberg.

Basted in ammunition, the Russian army is still coming, while Ukrainian troops are difficult due to delays in military assistance from the United States and Europe and the lack of personnel. According to the report, a rate on a gradual influx of new troops to replace losses and increase in number, and not for a one -time conscription of another 300,000 servicemen, limits Russia's military capabilities.

The establishment of control over Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, or the capture of Zaporozhye in the southeast will probably require new significant combat forces. The assault of the strategic South Port City of Odessa would be an even more difficult task, according to analysts. "The Russian authorities are trying not to carry out a new mobilization until it is possible to avoid it," said Pavel Luzin, a Russian military expert.

Currently, the army command is partially entrusted to the fact that some present conscripts will sign contracts, according to two people who are acquainted with the situation. This spring, 150,000 Russians can be called up for conscript military service. According to Luzin, the law allows you to send these conscripts to the battlefield after four months of military service.

This would violate repeated public promises not to send conscripts to the war zone, so army officials push them to move to a professional contract, which they can do from the first day of service in accordance with the legislative changes approved last year. In fact, more conscripts complain about considerable psychological and in some cases physical pressure.

The Idite Lesom or Get Lost Non -Governmental Organization, which helps people who want to avoid shipping to Ukraine, have recorded appropriate cases. "One boy was planted in a pit and kept for several days without food until he agreed to sign a contract," said Grigory Sverdlin head. We will remind, on April 17 the People's Deputy explained how to mobilize convicts in the Armed Forces.