MOSCOW. Aug 13 (Interfax) - The special military operation involves 43,000 people from Moscow and another 23,000 will head there as volunteers as part of the second wave of contract-signing, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.
"Tens of thousands of people have to date signed up or gone as volunteers from Moscow: 22,000 people left during mobilization, 21,000 during the first wave of contract-signing, and another 23,000 people will leave this year, during the second wave of contract-signing," Sobyanin said at the Territory of Meanings forum on Tuesday.
Moscow is among the leading regions "in terms of the dynamic of the numbers of people who are fighting," he said.