Vladimir Putin would not intend to send new recruits to Ukraine

By
Adrian Gabor
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Vladimir Putin would not intend to send new recruits to Ukraine

Vladimir Putin would not intend to send new recruits to the war in Ukraine, the Russian president yesterday signed a recruitment decree for the next two months, but it seems that he would not intend to send young people to fight against the Ukrainian army.

Vladimir Putin has other problems at the moment, beyond what's happening in Ukraine, so he wouldn't really want to cause new scandals in Russia with a decision like this, but things could change very seriously at any time in the coming months .

"Putin is unlikely to deploy newly recruited troops to fight in Ukraine, due to concerns about the stability of his regime.

The Chairman of the Defense Committee of the Russian State Duma, Andrey Kartapolov, said on March 30 that spring conscription would not take place in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine during the spring 2023 conscription cycle.

Kartapolov also mentioned that the Russian forces will not enlist people from the occupied territories. Kartapolov's statements may be true, given that the ISW has not observed the Russian military using conscripts on a significant scale on the front lines since the first months of the war, and especially since the sinking of the Russian Black Sea Fleet's flagship, the Moskva, which had some enlisted sailors on board.

Putin's use of conscripts in the winter-spring of 2022 has sparked social tensions in Russia, and Putin is unlikely to risk the stability of his regime by deploying the newly recruited military to the front lines.

The Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD) and Putin have even publicly instructed Russian authorities to investigate alleged incidents of the deployment of Russian conscripts to Ukraine on March 9, 2022 (which were technically illegal at the time).[8] Putin likely perceives the political cost of deploying front-line recruits to be greater than that of mobilizing Russia in September 2022.”