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Information on military service, conscription, and mobilization

The following publications by EUAA, the Danish Immigration Service and the Swedish Migration Agency provide background information:

For earlier developments, see our previous information collection on the partial military mobilization (last update in March 2023).

The most recent documents on the issue

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  • 25 April 2024 | ISW – Institute for the Study of War (Author)

    Russian Federation

    Analysis of military and security-related developments of the day

    Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 25, 2024 (Special or Analytical Report, English)

    • Ukraine has recently taken steps to increase significantly the pool of manpower conscripted into the army and will need time to induct and train new conscripts. […] Eastern Ukraine (comprised of two subordinate main efforts) * Russian Subordinate Main Effort #1 – Capture the remainder of Luhansk Oblast and push westward into eastern Kharkiv Oblast and encircle northern Donetsk Oblast * Russian Subordinate Main Effort #2 – Capture the entirety of Donetsk Oblast * Russian Supporting Effort – Southern Axis * Russian Air, Missile, and Drone Campaign * Russian Mobilization […] towards Kryvyi Rih Raion.[55] ISW recently assessed that Russian forces may be shifting their target set to strike Ukrainian transportation infrastructure to delay the improved capabilities that the arrival of US security assistance will afford Ukrainian forces and constrain Ukraine’s ability to sufficiently distribute manpower and materiel to critical sectors of the frontline.[56] Russian Mobilization […] and Force Generation Efforts (Russian objective: Expand combat power without conducting general mobilization) Russian President Vladimir Putin justified Russia’s ongoing efforts to nationalize Russian enterprises, including defense industrial base (DIB) enterprises on April 25.[57] Putin stated at the Congress of Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs that Russian law enforcement agencies […] The Kingisepp Plant is reportedly offering monetary awards to employees who recruit additional workers or promote a bumper sticker with the enterprise’s logo on their cars. China continues to indirectly support Russia’s war effort in Ukraine by providing dual-use goods to Russian DIB enterprises.
    enID 2108230

  • 24 April 2024 | AI – Amnesty International (Author)

    Russian Federation

    Report on the human rights situation (covering 2023)

    The State of the World's Human Rights; Russia 2023 (Periodical Report, English)

    • Dozens of arson attacks on conscription centres and other governmental buildings were reported across the country. On 23-24 June, Evgeny Prigozhin led the Wagner Group, a private military company he had founded, in an aborted military coup. He avoided prosecution but was killed in a suspicious plane crash on 25 August. Russia continued to face international isolation. […] Authorities used deception and pressure to recruit foreign migrants to military service. == Discrimination == On 29 October, hundreds of people stormed Makhachkala airport in Dagestan, North Caucasus, seeking to target Jewish people who they believed had recently arrived from Israel. Police intervened hours later to restore order.
    enID 2107971

  • 24 April 2024 | AI – Amnesty International (Author)

    Russian Federation

    Report on the human rights situation (covering 2023)

    Amnesty International Report 2023/24; Zur weltweiten Lage der Menschenrechte; Russland 2023 (Periodical Report, German)

    • Die Behörden setzten Täuschung und Druckmittel ein, um ausländische Migrant*innen für den Militärdienst zu rekrutieren. == Diskriminierung == Am 29. Oktober 2023 stürmten Hunderte Menschen den Flughafen von Machatschkala in Dagestan im Nordkaukasus, um jüdische Personen ausfindig zu machen, von denen sie annahmen, dass sie mit einem Flugzeug aus Israel angekommen seien.
    deID 2108012

  • 24 April 2024 | ISW – Institute for the Study of War (Author)

    Russian Federation

    Analysis of military and security-related developments of the day

    Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 24, 2024 (Special or Analytical Report, English)

    • * Russian State Duma Committee on Information Policy Head Alexander Khinshtein stated on April 24 that unspecified Russian officials will soon submit a draft law to the State Duma that would ban the extradition of foreigners who have fought in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine if the foreigners face prosecution for their military service in their home countries. […] Eastern Ukraine (comprised of two subordinate main efforts) * Russian Subordinate Main Effort #1 – Capture the remainder of Luhansk Oblast and push westward into eastern Kharkiv Oblast and encircle northern Donetsk Oblast * Russian Subordinate Main Effort #2 – Capture the entirety of Donetsk Oblast * Russian Supporting Effort – Southern Axis * Russian Air, Missile, and Drone Campaign * Russian Mobilization […] Command reported that Ukrainian forces downed a Kh-69 over Synelynyk Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast during the afternoon.[98] Kharkiv Oblast Head Oleh Synehubov reported that Russian forces struck civil infrastructure and apartment buildings in Kharkiv City with two S-300 missiles and administration buildings in Zolochiv, Kharkiv Oblast with two more S-300s during the night on April 23.[99] Russian Mobilization […] and Force Generation Efforts (Russian objective: Expand combat power without conducting general mobilization) Russian State Duma Committee on Information Policy Head Alexander Khinshtein stated on April 24 that unspecified Russian officials will soon submit a draft law to the State Duma that would ban the extradition of foreigners who have fought in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine if […] the foreigners face prosecution for their military service in their home countries.[100] Khinshtein appears to be responding to a video appeal from a Serbian volunteer who claimed that Russian officials denied his requests for Russian citizenship four times because he signed a contract with the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) and not the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD).[101] The Serbian volunteer
    enID 2108174

  • 23 April 2024 | USDOS – US Department of State (Author)

    Russian Federation, Ukraine

    Russian-occupied areas in Ukraine: Annual report on human rights in 2023

    2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Ukraine — Russia-occupied Areas (Periodical Report, English)

    • Failure to submit to conscription into Russia’s armed forces was also used as a basis for unjust detentions. Since 2015 Russia conducted annual spring and fall conscriptions in Crimea, and failure to comply was punishable by criminal penalty. […] As of September 30, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center documented 10 criminal and 600 administrative cases brought against Crimean residents for evading military service in Russia’s armed forces. […] On September 29, Russian Federation President Putin signed a decree to conscript 130,000 personnel into the Russian armed forces from October to December, with conscription taking place in all occupied areas of Ukraine. The HRMMU noted in an October report that conscription of protected persons was a grave breach of article 147 of Geneva Convention IV. === E. […] Russia-led forces looted, threatened men with forced mobilization, and terrorized and intimidated individuals in various ways. === I. CONFLICT-RELATED ABUSES === After Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, the levels of violence and scope of abuses significantly increased throughout the country. […] In its April report, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination highlighted Russia’s policy of “incitement to racial hatred and propagation of racist stereotypes against ethnic Ukrainians, [and] alleged forced mobilization and conscription, which disproportionately affected ethnic minorities, including indigenous peoples.”
    enID 2107675
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