Tue 05 July 2022:
According to the Russian state news agency TASS, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu stated on Tuesday that conscripts were not being sent to Ukraine to participate in Russia’s “special military operation.”
Though President Vladimir Putin had previously said that draftees would not be deployed to Ukraine, the defence ministry admitted in March that a number of conscripts had seen action in the conflict zone.
Russia conscripts around 400,000 young men annually for one year’s compulsory military service, and their treatment is a sensitive political issue.
Continue its ‘operation’
Russian military operation in Ukraine will continue until the tasks set by President Vladimir Putin are fully completed, Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu said.
“The Russian military is not going to stop after the complete liberation of the territory of the Luhansk People’s Republic. The special military operation will continue until the tasks set by the supreme commander are fully completed,” he said.
The West continues arms deliveries to Ukraine, which, according to Shoygu’s assessment, is made “in order to protract the conflict.”
“Only in the last 10 days 170 mercenaries were killed, 99 refused to participate in hostilities and left the Ukrainian territory,” he noted.
The Russian military, apart from conducting military operations, takes part in humanitarian activities, providing support to the civilians “of the liberated cities,” and ensuring peaceful life in the territories controlled by Russian troops, he said.
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