Russian Armed Forces to Conscript 142,000 People in April-July 2017
09:24 30.03.2017(updated 09:56 30.03.2017)
The Russian Armed Forces plan to conscript 142,000 people this spring, a decree published on an online portal for legal information on Thursday states.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Earlier the Russian Armed Forces have been ordered to expand its manpower to nearly two million by midyear, over a million of them service members.
The previous decree established an 1.88-million-strong Russian Armed Forces with 1 million service members.
"As of April 1 to July 15, 2017, carry out conscription into military service of Russian citizens aged 18 to 27 not in reserve… numbering 142,000 people," the decree reads.
© Sputnik
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