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Russian President Putin signed a law obliging citizens who have not been rehabilitated or have not been convicted of murder, robbery, petty theft, drug trafficking and other serious crimes under the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation to indicted military service to mobilize.
This made it possible to mobilize hundreds of thousands of people who had been sentenced to probation or had recently been released from colonies that were previously barred from serving.
The only criminal groups exempt from the ordinance are those who commit sex crimes with minors, treason, espionage or terrorism. Also excluded are those convicted of plotting to assassinate a government official, hijacking an aircraft, extremist activity and illegal handling of nuclear material and radioactive material.
President Vladmir Putin on Friday said the Kremlin had mobilized 18,000 more troops on top of its 300,000-strong target to fight in the war in Ukraine from Russia’s general male force.
Earlier this week, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that all partial mobilization activities, including the delivery of summons, were suspended after officials said the draft’s 300,000-strong recruitment target had been met.
However, Putin’s partial mobilization order will only end when the Russian President signs an official decree. Until then, he has the right to recruit more people for future military service.
The head of Russia’s infamous Wagner force, Yevgeny Prigozhin, seems to have prisoners are summoned from Russian prisons to join a group of mercenaries in the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.
The amendments signed by Putin have nothing to do with these alleged recruitments. Instead, the law applied to prisoners who were sentenced to a conditional sentence or released from the colonies. These people are usually subject to government supervision for eight to ten years until the sentence is overturned.
They are not allowed to leave the residence and are subject to various restrictions.
