The Moscow authorities were instructed to involve 27,000 contract servicemen in the war against Ukraine. SOTA writes about this to a source in the mayor's office of the capital.
Those who will be directly involved in the recruitment of the military have already been given forms on which data on payments, salaries and terms of service of contract soldiers are indicated. According to a SOTA source, so far only volunteers are being recruited at the mayor's office, but they are sure that the second part of the mobilization will come if this does not work out.
A day earlier, Bloomberg wrote about a much larger number of contractors. According to sources of the publication, we are talking about 400 thousand people. In addition, the Kremlin has shelved plans for a further offensive and focused on containing the Ukrainian counteroffensive. It is expected to start soon.