Russia can start conscripting people up to 30 years of age in the coming spring, head of the State Duma (lower house of parliament) defence committee Andrey Kartapolov said in an interview with Parlamentskaya Gazeta.
Each draft office will be required to identify how many people meet the new requirements before the spring conscription campaign begins, Kartapolov said.
“So, a draft office roughly has 100 people aged between 21 and 30 who never served and did not have enough qualifications to do so. And the benchmark figure to meet is 200. Correspondingly, half of them will be aged 18, as before, and the other half will be people between 21 and 30.”