As part of the partial mobilization announced in Russia, it is not planned to recruit women.
This was stated by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu.
“This was not in the plans for the future.
We are not going to recruit women,” Shoigu said.
He also pointed out that students from commercial universities with state accreditation will not be drafted.
“Now the additions to the presidential decree have been prepared.
You know that in accordance with the presidential decree, students of state universities do not participate in the mobilization,” Shoigu said.
- Students of commercial universities accredited by the state are not involved in the mobilization either.
They will not be called up for mobilization.
On behalf of the President, today we are completing the preparation of additions to the decree, and today it will be introduced.”
Sergei Shoigu answers journalists' questions
Speaking about the fact that the autumn conscription this year will begin on November 1, he stressed that this will not affect the timing of the return home of those who served.
“The transfer is connected only with the fact that today the workload of military enlistment offices is quite high.
Therefore, we would not like to have various kinds of overlays.
That is why the call itself has been moved to November 1.
As for demobilization, there are no shifts here.
Demobilization will go according to plan,” concluded the head of the Russian military department.
On Saturday, October 1, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, together with Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyov, inspected the accommodation sites for citizens called up from the reserve and volunteers.
They are equipped on the basis of the Patriot Congress and Exhibition Center and the Avangard Educational and Methodological Center for the Military-Patriotic Education of Youth in Kubinka near Moscow.
Shoigu inspected the places of accommodation of mobilized citizens
On September 21, Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization in Russia.
It is needed to control the contact line, the length of which exceeds 1,000 km, and the liberated territories.
Conscription will affect up to 300,000 reservists.
First of all, these are those who served in the ranks of the Armed Forces, have certain military specialties and combat experience.
“Those who have served, have a military specialty and combat experience are subject to mobilization.
This is 1% of the total mobilization resource," Shoigu explained.
On September 23, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation indicated that citizens working in the development and implementation of information technology solutions and ensuring the functioning of information infrastructure, as well as employees of Russian telecom operators, employees of organizations that ensure the stability of the national payment system and financial market infrastructure will not fall under partial mobilization .
On September 24, the President of Russia signed a decree on providing full-time and part-time students with a deferment from conscription for military service due to mobilization.
On September 27, the Ministry of Digital Development presented a list of professions whose owners can be exempted from partial mobilization.
The list includes 195 specialties, including IT, media, nuclear energy, information and computer security, industry and mechanical engineering.
On September 30, Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the autumn conscription, according to which 120,000 people aged 18 to 27 will be drafted into the army from November 1 to December 31.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained why it was decided to postpone the start of the autumn conscription from October 1.
“Now the military registration and enlistment offices are heavily overloaded due to partial mobilization.
In order not to aggravate this overload, such a decision was made.
It will make it possible to separate the flows of mobilized and conscripts, ”he said in a conversation with RIA Novosti.