{"id":1412371,"date":"2022-03-31T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412371"},"modified":"2022-03-31T09:00:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T13:00:46","slug":"russia-drafts-134500-conscripts-but-says-they-wont-go-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-drafts-134500-conscripts-but-says-they-wont-go-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia drafts 134,500 conscripts but says they won\u2019t go to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-drafts-134500-conscripts-but-says-they-wont-go-to-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412371&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-31T101839Z_1_LYNXNPEI2U0J0_RTROPTP_0_UKRAINE-CRISIS-RUSSIA-CONSCRIPTS_1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Russian service members march during a military parade on Victory Day, which marks the 76th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia May 9, 2021\" \/><br \/>FILE PHOTO: Russian service members march during a military parade on Victory Day, which marks the 76th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia May 9, 2021. REUTERS\/Maxim Shemetov\/File Photo<\/div>\n<p>March 31, 2022<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) \u2013     President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a decree ordering 134,500 new conscripts into the army as part of Russia\u2019s annual spring draft, but the defence ministry said the call-up had nothing to do with the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The order came five weeks into Russia\u2019s invasion, which has run into fierce Ukrainian resistance. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday that none of those called up would be sent to any \u201chot spots\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of conscripts\u2019 involvement in the war is highly sensitive. On March 9, the defence ministry acknowledged that some had been sent to Ukraine after Putin had denied this on various occasions, saying only professional soldiers and officers had been sent in.<\/p>\n<p>Putin\u2019s spokesman said at the time that the president had ordered military prosecutors to investigate and punish the officials responsible for disobeying his instructions to exclude conscripts.<\/p>\n<p>The annual spring military draft, which runs from April 1 to July 15, will affect Russian men between the ages of 18 and 27, Putin\u2019s decree said. <\/p>\n<p>Shoigu said on Tuesday that those called up would begin to be dispatched to their assigned bases in late May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost military personnel will undergo professional training in training centres for three to five months. Let me emphasize that recruits will not be sent to any hot spots,\u201d he said in remarks published on his ministry\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mikhail Benyash, a lawyer representing several members of Russia\u2019s National Guard who refused an order to go to Ukraine, said that under Russian law conscripts could be sent to fight after several months of training. <\/p>\n<p>Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 in what it called a special military operation to demilitarise and \u201cdenazify\u201d the country. The war has killed thousands of people and uprooted millions.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days Russia has reframed its objectives, saying it never intended to take the capital Kyiv and other major cities but is focused on \u201cliberating\u201d eastern areas where Russian-backed separatists have been fighting the Ukrainian army since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Its statements have been greeted sceptically by Ukraine and Western governments. Military analysts have suggested the  declared focus on the eastern Donbas region may be an attempt to make it easier for Putin to seek a face-saving exit.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Reuters, editing by Mark Trevelyan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: Russian service members march during a military parade on Victory Day, which marks the 76th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}