MOSCOW. July 5 (Interfax) - Conscripts are not sent to the zone of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.
"As I have said before, conscripts are not sent to the zone of the special military operation," Shoigu said at a ministry teleconference on Tuesday.
On February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an executive order to recognize the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR, LPR). On February 24, Putin declared the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine.