The Moscow Times – July 25, 2023
“This law was written for a big war, for general mobilization. And this already is a big war,” deputy Andrey Kartapolov said.
Russian lawmakers on Tuesday passed a bill raising the upper age limit for military conscription and banning draftees from leaving the country, as Moscow continues its efforts to widen the pool of potential recruits for its war in Ukraine.
Under current Russian law, all men aged 18-27 are required to complete a one-year term of compulsory military service, a requirement that has been in place since before the invasion of Ukraine.
Amendments published on the day of the bill’s third and final reading would raise the age limits for this compulsory military service to 18-30 starting in January 2024.
The changes do away with the original amendments — which had been endorsed by President Vladimir Putin in December — that sought to gradually raise the lower and upper age limits over a period of three years for compulsory military service to 21-30.
“The wording of the draft law has changed due to the serious demographic situation that affects the volume of [Russia’s] mobilization resource,” Andrei Kartapolov, the bill’s co-author, told Interfax.
“[The new amendments] are necessary in order for us not to fall behind [in conscripting enough soldiers],” added Kartapolov, who chairs the Duma’s Defense Committee.
The lawmaker explained that the “limits are expanding” in order to ensure the recruitment of approximately 147,000 conscripts, which is the number of soldiers enlisted during Russia’s spring conscription campaign this year.
Additionally, the bill prohibits conscripted men from leaving Russia after receiving their draft notices, a measure to crack down on draft dodging.
Other changes to the bill announced last week maintained the lower age limit for conscription at 18, whereas earlier proposals sought to raise it to 21.
The Duma passed the conscription age bill Tuesday despite criticism from upper-house Federation Council senators Valery Bondarev and Andrei Klishas, who called on lawmakers to continue pursuing the originally proposed age range of 21-30 for mandatory military service.
Yet Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko vowed Tuesday that her chamber would approve the State Duma’s bill with the updated conscription age range.
A vote by Russia’s upper-house Federation Council — which is scheduled for Friday — and Putin’s signature are required for the new limits to become law.
As many are saying, Russia has been on an industrial war footing for some time, but now, they clearly believe big war is coming.
What we need to do as armchair analysts, is think about the bigger picture, and how all the playing peices fall into place.
Which nations in the EU won’t fight Russia, who will Turkey side with. Will Israel come out to play? I don’t believe Israel has nukes, certainly no where near the suggested 200.
What will China do? This is a huge question.
Some pundits think the Nazis will agree to some sort of talks by October. I can’t see this happening, because the stakes are so high for the principal bankrupt Nazi states.
I’ve been saying it for some years and to Tory Nazis did try to pass a bill reintroducing conscription, well, I think this is coming.
W.W. 3 is coming later this fall, and you all know it. Boden is a flunky who cannot tie his own shoes, and does as he’s told.
He’ll do anything his masters order, as will the entirety of the Jew-.S.-A. shekel grubbers.
The Jews want their goyim killing war, Putin is a Jew, and will do as Klaus Schwab has planned.. They think they’ll all be underground when all hell breaks loose.
Plans, both of mice, and men, are going to go awry, Yahwey has other plans.
W.W. 3 is coming later this fall, and you all know it. Biden is a flunky who cannot tie his own shoes, and does as he’s told.
He’ll do anything his masters order, as will the entirety of the Jew-.S.-A. shekel grubbers.
The Jews want their goyim killing war, Putin is a Jew, and will do as Klaus Schwab has planned.. They think they’ll all be underground when all hell breaks loose.
Plans, both of mice, and men, are going to go awry, Yahwey has other plans.
instead of masscrowding soldiers on earth surface
Putin better should prepare enough atom bunkers
for his soldiers + population !
@ Carl JONES
are you blind ? Go on veterans today !
Beirut port was a israeli mini neutron nuke .
but there is more, Yemen,Gaza,Bali etc etc
or are you a jewish shill to play down this issue ?