The Russian president, Vladimir Putinenacted this Saturday a law that forgives debts for those who sign contracts with the Army starting next December 1.
Those soldiers, mobilized and recruits who comply with a minimum of twelve months of military service, specifies the law published on the legal information portal of the Russian State.
The condition for debt relief lies in the existence of a judicial decision related to the collection of the same or at the beginning of an execution procedure.
The Ukrainian Government considers that it is “a debt mobilization“, that is, the Kremlin leaves Russian citizens whose families are in debt without viable alternatives, since they will be forced to give up all their property to pay off their obligations or to enlist in the war against Ukraine.
This situation demonstrates, once again, that Russian propaganda claims about “minimal losses” they might not be entirely truerather they imply that, after almost three years of conflict, Russia faces serious difficulties in replenishing his army and increasingly resorts to covert mobilization tactics.
They will also be forgiven if they die
In relation to those recruited, they will also be condoned in the event that soldier dies in action or is declared invalid after being seriously wounded in combat.
Of course, the debt may in no case exceed 10 million rubles (close to $100,000 to the current change).
The number of volunteers who signed contracts with the Army had decreased in the first half of the year, but increased after the Ukrainian incursion in Kursk region.
In turn, Russia on Saturday ruled out a second wave of mobilization of reservists to fight in Ukraine ahead of the fourth year of fighting in the neighboring country.
“Our citizens very actively sign contracts with the Ministry of Defense“, commented Dmitri Peskov, presidential spokesman, to the official RIA Novosti agency.
Peskov stressed that the volunteers take courses in which they are instructed “conscientiously”, so “now there is no need to talk about mobilization.”
“There are many, hundreds who sign contracts every day,” he added.
The Russian authorities, who do not report casualties in the ranks of their army, although Western sources estimate this figure at about 700,000 dead and injured.
The Kremlin has refrained from declaring a new partial mobilization after the first one in September 2022 will cause great popular discontent and the exodus of hundreds of thousands of men of military age.
Fighting in Ukraine reached 1,000 days this week with Russian forces advancing at forced marches into the Donbas, although Moscow has not yet been able to expel Ukrainian troops from Kursk.
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