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In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin inspects the "Zapad-2025" (West-2025) joint Russian-Belarusian military drills at a training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast on September 16, 2025. [AFP]
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday called up 135,000 men for routine military service, the country's biggest autumn conscription drive since 2016.
Russia calls up men aged between 18 and 30 for compulsory military service each spring and autumn.
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