{"id":271485,"date":"2023-07-26T06:36:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T06:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=271485"},"modified":"2023-07-27T06:46:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T06:46:52","slug":"russian-lawmakers-approve-bill-raising-maximum-draft-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=271485","title":{"rendered":"Russian Lawmakers Approve Bill Raising Maximum Draft Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Moscow Times \u2013 July 25, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

“This law was written for a big war, for general mobilization. And this already is a big war,”<\/em> deputy Andrey Kartapolov said<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Russian lawmakers on Tuesday passed<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Amendments published on the day of the bill\u2019s third and final reading would raise the age limits for this compulsory military service to 18-30 starting in January 2024.<\/p>\n

The changes do away with the original amendments \u2014 which had been endorsed by President Vladimir Putin in December \u2014 that sought to gradually raise<\/a> the lower and upper age limits over a period of three years for compulsory military service to 21-30.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe wording of the draft law has changed due to the serious demographic situation that affects the volume of [Russia\u2019s] mobilization resource,\u201d Andrei Kartapolov, the bill\u2019s co-author, told<\/a> Interfax.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The new amendments] are necessary in order for us not to fall behind [in conscripting enough soldiers],\u201d added Kartapolov, who chairs the Duma\u2019s Defense Committee.<\/p>\n

The lawmaker explained that the \u201climits are expanding\u201d in order to ensure the recruitment of approximately 147,000 conscripts, which is the number of soldiers enlisted during Russia\u2019s spring conscription campaign this year.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the bill prohibits conscripted men from leaving Russia after receiving their draft notices, a measure to crack down on draft dodging.<\/p>\n

Other changes to the bill announced<\/a> last week maintained the lower age limit for conscription at 18, whereas earlier proposals sought to raise it to 21.<\/p>\n

The Duma passed the conscription age bill Tuesday despite criticism from upper-house Federation Council senators Valery Bondarev<\/a> and Andrei Klishas<\/a>, who called on lawmakers to continue pursuing the originally proposed age range of 21-30 for mandatory military service.<\/p>\n

Yet Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko vowed Tuesday that her chamber would approve the State Duma\u2019s bill with the updated conscription age range.<\/p>\n

A vote by Russia\u2019s upper-house Federation Council \u2014 which is scheduled for Friday \u2014 and Putin\u2019s signature are required for the new limits to become law.<\/p>\n

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“This law was written for a big war, for general mobilization,” deputy Andrey Kartapolov said. In other words, Russia appears to be preparing for an escalation in hostilities. Is this being done in anticipation of conflict with Polish and Ukrainian forces in western Ukraine? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271485"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271492,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271485\/revisions\/271492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}