TASS reports this with reference to the Russian military department.

“More than 550 people applied to selection points for military contract service in the Sverdlovsk region in two weeks... Since the beginning of this year, more than 2.5 thousand residents of the Sverdlovsk region, and in 2023, more than 12.5 thousand people.” ,” the ministry noted.

At the same time, it is noted that in the Murmansk region over the past two weeks more than 100 people have signed contracts, since the beginning of this year - over 500 citizens, and according to the results of the past - more than 2.6 thousand people.

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.