Due to the increased workload at military registration and recruitment offices as a result of partial mobilisation procedures, the autumn recruitment drive in Russia started one month later than usual.
Russia Today reports that 120,000 recruits will be called from November 1 to December 31 in accordance with a decree issued by Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 30 and published in conjunction with the dismissal of military personnel who were called last year and completed their military service in accordance with the requirements specified this year.
The delay in the start of the recruitment process this year, according to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, is related to the heavy workload in military registration and recruitment offices as a result of partial mobilisation, and Vladimir Tsimlisky, a representative of the Main Organization and Mobilization Directorate of the Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, estimates that this year’s call-ups will be down by 7.
5 thousand during the previous year, highlighting the fact that even during the conflict, this amount fully satisfies the requirements of the state’s power structures.
The recruits who are being called now will not be sent to any military units on the lands of the Donetsk Republicans Logansk or the Zaburoje and Skorson regions, and they will not take part in the war in Ukraine, according to Yughenini Burdinski, the head of the organisational authority of the Main Directorate of Organization and Mobilization of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
Russia’s autumn hiring season gets under way a month later than expected.
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