INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia is likely to keep banking on various coercion tactics to bolster its military manpower in Ukraine, experts say, a strategy that has
pushing to capture more Ukrainian territory this month as Kyiv has waited for the latest U.S
military aid package and other promised Western support to materialize on the battlefield, fueling rumors among Russians that Moscow may be
conscription of citizens listed in reserve for military service
acquired Russian citizenship into signing military contracts.Since then, the Defense Ministry has set its sights on men undergoing their
salaries and social benefits
Others are subjected to physical violence and intimidation.Last year, Andrei Lazhiev, a native of the republic of Karelia, sustained a fatal
head injury while undergoing compulsory military service in annexed Crimea
now, there are people in Russia who are ready to go [to war] for money
information about recruitment for contract military service in Kazan, republic of Tatarstan.Andrei Titov / Business Online / TASSSome
military volunteers and mobilized men from the Russian Far East said they received only about 5% of their promised payments this month, the
assumed that only people of working-class jobs like a cook or a tractor driver were lured in
We also had a case of a journalist who was promised work in the Defense Ministry press service [but was deployed to fight on the frontlines
Petersburg, regional officials target men from disadvantaged backgrounds, debtors and those with a history of misdemeanor offenses by
and more people who decide to sign the contract on a momentary impulse and then change their mind
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