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The forces fighting in Ukraine are not conscripts, but contract soldiers. Russian law doesn't allow conscripts to be deployed overseas. Of course it's an authoritarian regime so they could do it anyway, but there would be serious domestic repercussions and largely isn't necessary to get the troop concentrations they have



there are reports that they do exactly that: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/02/26/i-m-panicking-where-...




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