Putin begins the largest Russian military call in years

President Vladimir Putin summoned 160,000 men between the ages of 18 and 30, the largest number of recruits in Russia since 2011, as the country has been moving to expand its army.

Spring summoning for military service came for a year several months after Putin said that Russia should increase the total volume of its army to nearly 2.39 million and the number of active soldiers to 1.5 million.

This is an increase of 180,000 over the next three years.

Admiral Vladimir Tsimlysky said that new recruits will not be sent to fight in Ukraine for what Russia calls “its own military action.”

However, there were reports of the killing of recruits in the fighting in the Russian border areas and they were sent to fight in Ukraine in the first months of the war on a large scale.

The current draft, which is held between April and July, comes despite our attempts to cease fire in the war.

There was no leaving violence on Tuesday, when Ukraine said a Russian attack on an energy facility in the southern city of Khaisson had left 45,000 people without electricity.

Russia also claimed that it had acquired another Ukrainian village, in Rozlyiv in the Donetsk region.

Russia invites recruits in the spring and autumn, but the last draft of 160,000 young men is higher than 10,000 from the same period in 2024.

Since the beginning of last year, the youth group available for the project has been increased by increasing the maximum age from 27 to 30.

In addition to the summons of POST, young people will receive notifications on the Gososlugi State Services website.

Regardless of its draft twice in annual annual, Russia also summoned large numbers of men as contract soldiers and recruited thousands of soldiers from North Korea.

Moscow was forced to respond to wide losses in Ukraine, where more than 100,000 were verified by the BBC and the media as soldiers killed in Ukraine.

The real number can be more than twice.

Putin has increased the size of the army three times since the forces ordered the seizure of Ukraine in February 2022.

The Russian Ministry of Defense linked to the increase in December 2023 to the army’s size to “increasing threats” from both the war in Ukraine and “the continuous expansion of NATO”.

NATO expanded to include Finland and Sweden, as a direct result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Finland has the longest border in NATO with Russia, at an altitude of 343 km (834 miles), and Prime Minister Pitti Orbo said on Tuesday that his country would join the other states adjacent to Russia to withdraw from the Ottawa conference, which prohibits program control mines.

Poland and the Baltic countries made similar decisions two weeks ago due to the military threat from Russia.

Orbo said that the decision to appeal using Persian control mines was dependent on military advice, and that the people of Finland were not worried.

The government in Helsinki also said defense spending will increase to 3 % of economic production (GDP), an increase of 2.4 % last year.