The Impact Of The Ukraine War On Russian Conscription

Contract soldiers undergoing medical examinations before shipping out from the Yegorshino regional assembly station in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region. June 26, 2022. Donat Sorokin / TASS  

Meduza: A history of forced conscription Russia's first military draft of 2022 ends soon. That could spell danger for recent college graduates. 

Russia’s first military draft of 2022 will end on July 15. Since it began on April 1, enlistment offices have largely avoided using Chechen War-era methods of rounding up draftees, but that doesn’t mean they haven't broken laws. Protecting young people from forced recruitment is becoming increasingly difficult; if an enlistment office is given instructions to send a specific person to the army, there’s effectively no way to prevent the person from having to serve. Meduza looks at how Russia’s most recent conscription has played out. 

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Update #1: Putin’s Problematic Conscription and Possible Ramifications (Connor L. Mitchell, small Wars Journal)  

Update #2: Parents of Russian Conscripts Fear Their Sons Will Be Pressured Into Joining The War In Ukraine (RFE)  

WNU Editor: During a time of war no one in Russia is immune from being forced to serve .... Flyers prospect Ivan Fedotov sent to Arctic after forced conscription into Russian military, reports say (Philly Voice).