Removed from YouTube after getting attention from TV broadcast… Russian Defense Ministry refuses service extension
It has been argued that Russia, which is continuing the special military operation in Ukraine for 10 months, may extend the military service period for its men from one to two years.
According to Russian newspaper Comersant and Vedomosti on the 18th, Mikhail Potin, military commissioner for the Dmitrov, Taldom and Dubna regions near Moscow, told local broadcaster Dmitrov TV on the 16th.
At the time, he said, “Those enlisted next spring will serve for one year and six months, and those enlisted that fall will serve for two years.”
“This is a logical decision as our northern neighbors are pushing to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO),” he added.
The northern neighbors he was referring to appear to be Finland and Sweden.
These countries are in the process of joining NATO to address security concerns following the Ukraine crisis.
As Fourteen’s remarks attracted media attention, the broadcast in which he appeared was deleted from Dmitrov TV’s YouTube channel, Kommersant said.
Earlier, on October 20, Vladimir Zawarov, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs of the Russian Senate, also said in an interview with the parliamentary newspaper that the period of compulsory service should be increased to two years, saying, “It is impossible to learn how to handle military equipment in one year.” there is.
Currently, Russia maintains a conscription system along with a recruiting system that mainly recruits NCOs through contracts.
Males between the ages of 18 and 27 are required to do military service for one year.
Conscription takes place twice a year, in spring and autumn.
In the autumn of this year, 120,000 men were recalled.
However, the Office of the President of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Defense are known to have negative views on extending the term of military service to two years.
According to the Interfax news agency, Alexey Astahov, military commissioner for the Moscow region, also said that the proposed extension of military service is not true.
“The Russian Defense Ministry has not proposed any amendments to the law to change the length of military service due to conscription,” he said.
However, if the Ukrainian situation continues to prolong, there is a possibility that the conscripts’ military service term will be extended in the future, as stated.
Previously, the Russian government had consistently taken a negative stance on the mobilization order since the outbreak of the Ukrainian crisis, but in September it abruptly issued a partial mobilization order to recruit 300,000 reserve troops.
/yunhap news
