The Russian President, Vladimir Putinadopted this Saturday a law which cancels the debts of those who sign contracts with the army from December 1st.
Mobilized soldiers and recruits who comply a minimum of twelve months of military service, specifies the law published on the Russian state legal information portal.
The condition for debt relief lies in the existence of a a judicial decision relating to the collection thereof or at the start of enforcement proceedings.
The Ukrainian government considers it “debt mobilization“In other words, the Kremlin is leaving Russian citizens whose families are in debt without viable alternatives, since they will be forced to give up all their assets to pay their obligations or to engage in war against Ukraine.
This situation demonstrates once again that Russian propaganda speaks of “minimal losses”. they may not be entirely truerather, they imply that after almost three years of conflict, Russia is faced with serious difficulties in reconstituting his army and increasingly resorts to covert mobilization tactics.
They will also be forgiven if they die
In relation to the people recruited, they will also be tolerated in the event that a soldier dies in combat or is declared disabled after being seriously wounded in combat.
Of course, the debt cannot under any circumstances exceed 10 million rubles (nearly $100,000 to the current change).
The number of volunteers signing contracts with the army decreased in the first half of the year, but increased after the Ukrainian incursion in Kursk region.
For its part, Russia on Saturday ruled out a second wave of mobilization of reservists to fight in Ukraine, as the fourth year of fighting in the neighboring country approaches.
“Our citizens are very actively signing contracts with the Ministry of Defense“, commented Dmitri Peskov, spokesperson for the president, to the official RIA Novosti agency.
Peskov emphasized that the volunteers attend courses in which they are instructed “conscientiously,” so that “now there is no need to talk about mobilization.”
“There are hundreds signing contracts every day,” he added.
The Russian authorities, who do not report losses in the ranks of their army, although Western sources estimate this figure at around 700,000 dead and injured.
The Kremlin refrained from declaring a new partial mobilization after the first in September 2022 will cause great popular discontent and the exodus of hundreds of thousands of military-age men.
Fighting in Ukraine has lasted 1,000 days this week, with Russian forces advancing in forced marches into Donbass, although Moscow has not yet been able to expel Ukrainian troops from Kursk.
