As Russia moves to expand the size of its military, the country’s president, Vladimir Putin, has called up 160,000 men aged 18-30.
The figure represents the country’s highest number of conscripts since 2011.
The spring call-up for a year’s military service came several months after Putin said Russia should increase the overall size of its military to almost 2.39 million.
The president equally requested that the country increase its number of active servicemen to 1.5 million.
This amounts to a rise of 180,000 over the coming three years.
Vice Admiral Vladimir Tsimlyansky has confirmed that the new conscripts will not be deployed to Ukraine for what Russia terms its “special military operation.”
However, previous reports have shown conscripts being killed in fighting within Russia’s border regions, and some were sent to battle in Ukraine during the early stages of the full-scale war.
This year’s draft, which runs from April to July, follows continued hostilities despite US efforts to broker a ceasefire.
On Tuesday, Ukraine reported that a Russian assault on a power facility in the southern city of Kherson left 45,000 people without electricity.
Similarly, Russia claimed it has captured another village in the Donetsk region of Eastern Ukraine.
