Russian Defence Ministry claims mobilisation complete despite absence of Putin’s decree

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation has claimed that units accountable to it have received instructions to report on the completion of partial mobilisation by 1 November.

Source: RIA Novosti (RIA News), a pro-Kremlin Russian media outlet, quoting the Russian Ministry of Defence

Details: The Russian Ministry of Defence has claimed that all mobilisation measures have been suspended on the instructions of Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s Defence Minister.

Call-up notices are allegedly no longer being issued.

Military commissariat personnel involved in coordinating the partial mobilisation efforts have been ordered to return to their regular duties starting from 31 October.

The Russian government claimed that only volunteers and professional soldiers would be able to take part in the war in Ukraine.

Previously: On 28 October, Sergei Shoigu, the Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, informed the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, that the partial mobilisation has apparently come to an end, and that 82,000 conscripts have been sent to Ukraine.

On 31 October, the Kremlin evaded questions about the absence of a presidential decree confirming the end of mobilisation despite having made claims that the most recent wave of mobilisation had been "completed" days earlier.

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