For The 18th Time Since The Start Of Summer, The Kremlin Has Stated That "there Will Be No Mobilization"
1- 18.09.2026, 21:07
Meanwhile, the Russian elite began evacuating their relatives from the country.
The Russian authorities have no plans to draft 300,000 people into the army by the end of 2026, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told RTVI, commenting on a Bloomberg report about a “covert mobilization” being prepared in Russia.
“No. There are no such plans,” he said. This is already the 18th such statement from Moscow: according to calculations by “Important Stories”, the authorities have, since June 1, rejected the possibility of an imminent mobilization at least 17 times, and in September, Putin issued such a denial twice in three days.
The reason for these regular denials was reports that, following the September State Duma elections, the Kremlin might begin a new round of conscription to send people to war. In August, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the Financial Times reported on the Russian authorities’ preparations for a possible new mobilization. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate also made similar statements. Sources close to the Kremlin cited by The Economist suggested that a new mobilization could be carried out under a 2022 decree that remains in effect.
Since July 28, Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev has stated four times that a new mobilization is unnecessary. The possibility of such a mobilization has also been repeatedly denied by State Duma deputies, including members of the Defense Committee: Colonel General Andrei Kartapolov, Lieutenant Generals Viktor Sobolev and Andrei Gurulev, Deputy Andrei Kolesnik, and Cossack General Viktor Vodolatsky. Kartapolov and Sobolev each made such statements twice.
Senator Andrei Klishas and Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova also stated that no mobilization is planned. Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, stated during a briefing that “a mass mobilization is not currently planned or expected.” On August 25, Peskov stated that reports of a new mobilization were being deliberately spread by the Ukrainian authorities to “stir up trouble in our country.”
On September 18, Bloomberg reported that some Russian officials and employees at military recruitment offices fear a possible mobilization after the elections and are advising relatives to leave the country or are looking for ways to open accounts abroad.
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