in Moscow mobile recruitment centers for Russian army have been set up right at Metro stations in August the mayor of the Russian Capital Saban promised that in 2024 he would send 23,000 people to the war against Ukraine thus according to him Moscow will become the leader in recruiting contract soldiers among Russian regions they are not counting on the ideology of the recruits and promis them significant salaries for their lives at the end of July Saban issued a decree raising the one-off payment for signing a contract with the ministry of Defense to 1.9 million Rubles the amount was a record for Russian regions until St Petersburg started paying 2.1 million Rubles from the Moscow times about 70% of the contract soldiers that Moscow is sending to Russia's war against Ukraine are Russians from other regions Moscow residents make up less than 20% of the contractors meanwhile the losses of the Russian army need to be urgently replenished according to Russian statistics 30,000 people a months are being mobilized now where do they go where and how to collect them is not very clear it is impossible to calculate it we can only operate the figures given by the state itself most importantly the number of people called up and mobilized cannot be accounted for by real counting because there is a huge number of not included uded into the statistics of the ministry of Defense more than a third of the recruitment quarters are not fulfilled in the regions according to Anonymous sources of the Bloomberg agency it is possible that the Kremlin will soon be forced to consider a decision on a new mobilization Russia's failure to defeat the Ukrainian attack so far and restore control of its border has exposed a lack of defensive reserves Moscow has hundreds of thousands of troops on the front line in eastern Southern Ukraine where it faces mounting casualties with fighting largely at a stalemate from a Bloomberg publication the Russian Ministry of defense is urgently trying to make up for the losses of the Russian army in the hary region a new volunteer Brigade called bars is being formed there the Brigade will consist of three separate units bar bransk bars ksk and bar bgrd with a total of 4,921 servicemen they will also send conscripts to the front despite the fact that Putin would not to allow them to take part in combat operations Putin is told that an army of many thousands has been gathered but it is very difficult to find it physically that enlisted soldiers will be transferred from other regions he was also warned about that quite a long time ago why the parents of those guys are surprised is unclear but each should have been thought of earlier due to mobilization Russia has a chronic labor shortage the share of Russian companies experiencing staff shortages has reached 70% according to a report by the Central Bank according to the regulator the shortage of bulls skilled and unskilled workers has intensified compared to Mid 2023 reported by Anastasia tarava Victoria smirnova uatv news