Some Russian technology professionals, bankers and journalists from state-owned media will not be called upon to serve in Ukraine as part of Russia’s mobilization campaign, the Defense Ministry said in a statement on Friday.
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said earlier this week that Russia would seek to call up 300,000 additional troops for Russia’s war in Ukraine, in what the Kremlin called a “partial mobilisation”.
The section of the official decree announcing the mobilization, which included the number of people who would be summoned, was kept confidential, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
He rejected a report by the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta on Thursday, citing a government source, who said the Kremlin is actually trying to recruit up to 1 million people for the rally.
The Defense Ministry said that some employees working in critically important industries would be excluded from the project in an attempt to “ensure that the work of specific high-tech industries as well as Russia’s financial system” is not affected by the first military deployment of Russia. Russia since World War II.
The exceptions apply to some IT workers, telecom workers, finance professionals, as well as some “systemically important” mass media workers, the ministry said in a statement.
He said company heads must draw up lists of their employees who meet the criteria and can be excluded from the project.
Source: CNN Brasil
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