Russia Plans to Mobilize 2,500 Crimean Residents for War in 2025

The occupiers plan to mobilize residents of the occupied Crimea to serve in their army. Many conscripts are immediately thrown into the combat zone without training.

This was reported by the press service of the National Resistance Center.

During the spring conscription campaign of 2025, the Kremlin plans to recruit another 2,500 residents of the temporarily occupied Crimea during the spring conscription.

The conscription lasts from April 1 to July 15, accompanied by propaganda shows and "solemn send-offs," the statement said.

The Center of National Resistance emphasized that despite the formal status of conscripts, recruits are often sent to the front without proper training, without choice, and sometimes without a chance to return.

According to the press service, coercion to wage war against one's own country is not service, but a politically motivated crime and an attempt to destroy the Ukrainian nation under the guise of "military duty."

The Center for National Resistance called on human rights and international organizations to document these violations as further evidence for the future international tribunal.

The occupiers approved the so-called "Plan for the preparation of citizens for military service in the military specialties of the Russian Federation Armed Forces", which provides for the possible forced mobilization of young men who did not enter military educational institutions in the TOT or were expelled because they refused to participate in propaganda activities.

According to the SLC, the main fear of the occupiers is the loss of Crimea, so they seek to suppress any manifestation of resistance, and the peninsula's repressive system destroys dissent.

In addition, 260 cadet classes are actively working in the temporarily occupied Crimea, the number of which increased by 63 over the past year, and 16 Cossack classes are functioning, where 6265 children are undergoing military training.

According to Maria Sulyalina, head of the Almenda Center for Civic Education, the process of militarization of children in the occupied regions will intensify in 2025. This is due to Russia's plans to conduct a large-scale campaign to prepare young people for military service.

Анна Бальчінос