Russia plans to conscript 120,000 men into military service this fall. The General Staff says none will be sent to Ukraine.
Russia plans to send about 120,000 people into compulsory military service during the fall draft, Colonel General Yevgeny Burdinsky, who heads the Russian Armed Forces General Staff’s Main Organizational and Mobilization Directorate, said in an interview with the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda.
Conscripts will begin leaving assembly points for their assigned posts on October 10, Burdinsky said.
Burdinsky said conscripts “will not be sent to carry out tasks as part of the special military operation in the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, or on Ukrainian territory.”
More than 140,000 conscripts were sent to their posts during the spring draft, which ran from April to July 2026, Burdinsky said.
Since 2026, Russia has had a “perpetual” draft. Under this system, people are called up for compulsory military service year-round but sent to their assigned posts in the spring and fall.
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