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The count we run with BBC Russian and a team of volunteers also tracks the changing face of Russia’s army. While prisoners (recruited by Wagner) dominated losses in 2023, now volunteers (recruited by the government) are the largest category of the dead
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The Defense Ministry earlier insisted reservists wouldn’t be sent into combat or abroad. But since Moscow claims Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions of Ukraine as its own (while being far from occupying them in full), that promise comes with reasonable doubts

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The second law lets the president summon reservists even without a state of war during conflicts, including outside Russia, or anti-terror operations. In theory, it’s for guarding “critical facilities”; in practice, the scope might prove elastic

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Under the new conscription law, draft-age men will now be assessed for service eligibility from January to December, not just twice a year as before. At least officially, deployments will still happen only in spring and fall

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Rudnitskaya had been the official guardian of Bohdan Ermokhin, then 17, an orphan evacuated from Mariupol. He tried to flee to Ukraine in 2023, was stopped near the border, later given a draft notice, and returned to Ukraine after turning 18

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The state agency TASS says investigators believe a Moscow-region entrepreneur and a mother sold a child to another family

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Rudnitskaya and her NGO worked closely with Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s children’s rights commissioner wanted by the International Criminal Court for deporting Ukrainian minors.

Two more persons were arrested in connection with this case

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Earlier this year, independent Russian outlet IStories recorded a decline in the number of recruits according to federal budget data. But Janis Kluge, a researcher at the SWP in Berlin, later noted: despite a decline in the spring, the began to grow again by the summer, based on regional figures