Russia wants to raise conscription age to 30 this spring

Russia wants to raise conscription age to 30 this spring
# 12 January 2023 14:49 (UTC +04:00)

Russia has decided to raise the conscription age - citizens under the age of 30 will be drafted into the military as early as this spring, said Andrey Kartapolov, Chairman of the Russian State Duma Defence Committee, in an interview with the Parliamentary Newspaper [official weekly publication of the Russian Federal Assembly, APA's Moscow correspondent reports.

According to Kartapolov, it is planned that the upper limit of the conscription age for military service will be raised by three years (from the current 27 to 30), while the lower limit will remain the same as before at 18 years.

Raising the conscription age in Russia will take from 1 to 3 years, and the process itself will take place in stages but will begin as early as this spring, Kartapolov said.

Before the start of the spring conscription, each military commissariat will have to figure out how many people it has fallen under the new requirements. After that, [military enlistment offices have – ed.] to reorganize existing data to meet military tasks. Let’s say that a military enlistment office has one hundred people aged 21 to 30 who have not completed military service and who do not have sufficient grounds for it. And the task is [to conscript – ed.] 200 people. Accordingly, half of them will be people aged 18, as was the case before, and half will be people from 21 to 30 years of age."

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