Since 2022, Russia has relied mostly on financial incentives to lure soldiers to fight. Evidence suggests that is now slowly giving way to coercion and deception.
A billboard promoting contract army service and reading "5,200,000 rubles for the first year of the contract" (approx $61,700) is seen in western Moscow on September 14.
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“They put him in the car and forced him to sign a contract…”
“Now he’s listed as missing… I haven’t fully accepted that he is most likely already dead.”
“It’s a paralyzing fear.”
All of these are quotes from people who say they have personal experience of forced military recruitment in Russia.
