Putin Instructed To Start Year-round Conscription Into The Army
- 29.12.2025, 21:20
The Russian dictator plans to send 261,000 Russians to their duty stations.
Vladimir Putin has signed the first decree on year-round conscription in 2026, under which 261,000 citizens are to be drafted and sent to their places of service. The document, published on the official portal of normative and legal acts, prescribes the draft of citizens aged 18 to 30 throughout the calendar year - from January 1 to December 31, 2026, reports The Moscow Times.
The order of sending conscripts to the troops, as before, will be held in two waves - from April 1 to July 15 and from October 1 to December 31. At the same time, the term for appearing at a military recruitment center on an electronic summons has been increased: now it is 30 days from the date of its placement in the relevant register instead of the previous 20.
In addition, the decree provides for the dismissal of soldiers, sailors, sergeants and petty officers who have expired the established term of service.
The law on year-round conscription was signed by Putin in November. According to the authors of the amendments - head of the State Duma Defense Committee Andrei Kartapolov and his first deputy Andrei Krasov - the new measures will make it possible to evenly distribute the load on military recruitment offices and improve the quality of conscription. At the same time, the project "Go to the woods" noted: the new format means constant activity of military commissions, which creates conditions for continuous raids, delivery of summonses and pressure on conscripts throughout the year.
The signing of the decree coincided with the end of the fall draft campaign. As the Russian Defense Ministry reported on December 29, 135,000 recruits were sent to the troops during the fall draft, which took place from October 1. Thus, this campaign has become the largest since 2016, when 152 thousand people were drafted, as well as for the entire period of full-scale war in Ukraine. For comparison, in the fall of 2022, 120 thousand people were drafted into the army, in 2023 - 130 thousand, and in 2024 - 133 thousand. The Defense Ministry noted that during the autumn conscription, the Unified Register of Military Registration was used for the first time, which "confirmed its effectiveness".