The State Duma (Lower House of the Russian parliament) eliminated the maximum age for enlisting in the armed forces as a contract soldier. Until now, Russian citizens who wanted to become professional military soldiers had to be between 18 and 40 years old; between 18 and 30 foreigners.
This measure, in theory, will allow to receive more applications to join the army at a time when the Kremlin’s military operation in Ukraine lasts more than three months. Both Russians and foreigners will be able to serve in the army as long as they have not exceeded the retirement age, that is, 65 years for men and 60 for women.
Highly qualified specialists
Moscow wants to attract doctors, engineers and communications technicians to the army
The Russian parliament has approved removing this restriction urgently. First Dama approved it directly in three readings. Ten minutes after the Lower House report was released, so did the Federation Council (Upper House or Senate).
The project to remove this limit was presented five days ago in the Duma by the deputies, Andréi Kartapolov, former Deputy Defense Minister, and Andréi Krásov, coinciding with the Russian military operation in Ukraine.
According to the authors of the legislative amendment, the approved measure will help attract “specialists in areas related to the civilian population: medical support, engineers, communications technicians and others” to contract military service.
in Ukraine
The last balance of casualties was made by Moscow in March, and recognized the death of 1,351 soldiers
In the initiative, they explained that “for the use of high-precision weapons, use of weapons and military equipment, highly professional specialists are needed. Experience shows that they become such professionals (when they reach) between 40 and 45 years.”
In addition, the deputies explained that there are specialists interested in working in Ukraine, but until now they could not be called because the law did not allow it.
Search for “professionals”
The authors of the law deny that a covert mobilization was attempted
The Ministry of Defense stated that only military personnel with a contract take part in the hostilities in Ukraine. However, on March 9, he reported the presence of recruits in the units involved in the special operation and that some of them had been captured. Later, he claimed that “almost all” of the recruits had already withdrawn to Russia and that he was taking “thorough measures” to prevent the sending of recruits to Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered prosecutors to investigate and find those guilty of sending conscripts who were doing compulsory military service to the neighboring country.
Western media and countries maintain that Russian forces have suffered more losses than desired in the “special military operation”, as the intervention in Ukraine is called here. Recently, British Intelligence estimated these losses at more than 15,000 soldiers, as many as what the Soviet Army left behind in the ten years of the war in Afghanistan (1979-1989).
Russia reported the latest balance of casualties on March 25. The Ministry of Defense recognized 1,351 dead soldiers and 3,825 wounded.
The deputies denied that the elimination of the age limit is a covert “mobilization” so that there are more candidates to join the army.
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