In 2023, Russia will not announce a “partial or otherwise” wave of mobilization unless there are emergency events. On this subject declared Viktor Sobolev, member of the State Duma Committee on Defense, in an interview with the Mash telegram channel.
“There will be no mobilization, unless something extra-extraordinary happens, at least this year,” assured the MP.
Sobolev noted that Russia will no longer carry out a mobilization similar to that announced by President Vladimir Putin in September 2022. “The main thing is that the citizens calm down and do not flee the country, <...> don't look for a way out, don't inflict injuries on themselves so as not to enter the service," he said.Sobolev also said that military registration and enlistment offices issue summons "to clarify data" to fulfill the Defense Ministry's task of increasing the size of the Russian army to 1.5 million. people (about 670,000 of them will have been contract soldiers).“Military registration and enlistment offices recruit military personnel under the contract, they (have been given) the appropriate task and they are working on it. Well, of course, how to do? Well, subpoenas (issue). <...> The recruitment of conscripts will be increased accordingly. You know not everyone served,” the MP said.Since March, Russian military registration and enlistment offices have started sending out massive summonses to citizens. Authorities of six regions have officially reported it, however, according to lawyer Pavel Chikov, residents of at least 40 regions are receiving notifications. In the military registration and enlistment offices, the distribution of summonses is explained by the "updating of military registration data", while some of them refer not only to the appearance at the office of registration and military enlistment, but also to military training. The Russian President's press secretary Dmitry Peskov called the issuing of subpoenas "standard practice". According to him, we are talking about clarifying and updating the data. He also claimed that the second wave of mobilization in the Kremlin had not been mentioned.
