Since the beginning of the year, over 2,500 residents of the Sverdlovsk region have entered into contracts with the Moscow Region. In the Murmansk region over the past two weeks more than 100 people have signed contracts.

Earlier it was reported that Transbaikal paratroopers destroyed a group of Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry west of the village of Krasnoye on the Artyomovsky sector of the front. The Russian Ministry of Defense noted that more than 550 people applied to selection points for military contract service in the region in two weeks.