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Russia’s Ryazan Region Forces Businesses to Send Employees for Military Service Under New Decree
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The authorities in Russia's Ryazan region have issued a decree requiring businesses operating in the area to identify candidates for military service under contract.
The order, signed by Governor Pavel Malkov, was published on the official legal information portal and was brought to attention by the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) on March 30.
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According to the decree, businesses with 150 to 300 employees are required to send two individuals to serve in the military, while companies with 300 to 500 employees must send three, and those with over 500 employees are obliged to send five. Importantly, the form of business ownership does not impact these obligations. The directive is in effect from March 20 to September 20 of the current year.
The decree references two presidential orders issued by Vladimir Putin in October 2022. The first decree pertains to the imposition of martial law in the occupied regions of Ukraine, and the second outlines measures for the regions in response to the first decree.
The Ryazan region has become the first in Russia where local authorities have instructed businesses to recruit contract soldiers for the ongoing war in Ukraine, according to The Moscow Times.
At the same time, Russia has initiated what Ukrainian officials are calling a large-scale campaign of forced mobilization in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk.
According to the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), men conscripted from the Donbas, including those with disabilities or serious health conditions, are being forced into frontline assaults with little regard for their survival. The center reports that many of the conscripts are being used as “expendable manpower,” tasked with probing Ukrainian positions and taking initial Russian fire.
The testimonies from within these Russian units reveal that many of the conscripts have received no medical screening or proper military training before being thrown into battle.
Russian commanders themselves have acknowledged the dire state of the situation. Reports indicate that numerous conscripts were not adequately prepared for combat and lacked basic medical care, further compounding the human cost of the war.
In a developing situation in April 2025, approximately 100 Russian soldiers, who had been detained for unauthorized absence from their units, attempted to escape from a military commandant’s office in Krasnodar.
The soldiers were reportedly being held in a fenced area on the grounds of a local military facility when they broke through part of the perimeter fence in the evening hours. At the time of the escape, the soldiers were unarmed.
In response to the escape attempt, Russian law enforcement agencies quickly deployed personnel to secure the area. Several nearby streets, including 2nd Trudovaya Street, were blocked off as part of a search operation, with passing vehicles being inspected by authorities.
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