Cash incentives and physical pressure: as 300,000 new soldiers will be recruited in the Russian Federation - Bloomberg

Bloomberg writes about it with reference to three sources familiar with discussions on this issue. The publication notes that in December the head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Defense Ministry in December declared its intention to expand the army to 1. 5 million people from 1. 15 million. Later, in early April, the Russian defense department stated that this year they had already managed to recruit 100,000 recruits.

The article states that the Russian Federation is counting on a gradual influx of new troops to compensate for losses and increase in number, and not to call 300,000 recruits at a time. According to the calculations of the head of the Moscow Analytical Center "Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technology" Ruslana Pukhov, taking up to 30,000 contractors a month, Russia could replenish the army benches by 300,000 thousand soldiers in 2024.

According to the publication, to attract new people in the army of the Russian Federation uses financial incentives. In particular, according to the Vienna Research Group Re: Russia, since the beginning of the year, regional payments to new contractors have increased by 40% and amounted to an average of 470 000 rubles.

"The Russian authorities are trying not to carry out a new mobilization as long as it has the opportunity to avoid it," said Senior Researcher at the Jamestown Foundation Pavel Luzin. In addition, two sources told reporters that the Russian command partially expects signing contracts with some current conscripts.

According to the publication, this spring, 150 thousand Russians will be called for conscript military service, and the law of the Russian Federation allows you to send these people to the battlefield. According to the Idite Lesom non -governmental organization, more and more conscripts in Russia complain about considerable psychological and physical pressure.

"One boy was put in a pit and kept there for several days without food until he agreed to sign a contract," said the project manager Grigory Sverdlin. The drillin indicated that the contracts were officially calculated for one year, but they are indefinite.

We will remind, according to the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine of April 17, in Russia the volume of spring conscription for service in the army fell, so Moscow released the so -called "agitation trains", which were popular in the time of Vladimir Lenin. Earlier, on April 16, the military analyst Alexander Kovalenko stated that about 30 thousand people are joined in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.