Farmers Among Russians Drafted Into The Military, Putin Says
Christopher Duran
Updated on December 30, 2025
Ranchers are among the Russians being drafted into the military, President Vladimir Putin told a get-together with experts on Tuesday, hailing conceivable further risks for the 2023 yield.
Russia is the world’s biggest wheat exporter. Fall is a clamoring season for farmers as they sow winter wheat for the next year’s yield and gather soybeans and sunflower seeds. Winter grain planting has recently been essentially deferred by storms.
“I could similarly need to address neighborhood heads and the heads of agricultural endeavors. As an element of the partial planning, cultivating experts are similarly being drafted. Their families ought to be maintained. I demand that you truly center around this issue,” Putin told the transmission meeting.
Wednesday’s statement of Russia’s most significant public planning since The Subsequent Extraordinary Conflict, amidst what Moscow calls its special military action in Ukraine, has set off a scramble for the line by qualified men and restlessness in the greater people.
Vladimir Putin…Flawless lie. Always, everywhere, in everything…If you want to continue living in a bloody madness with unpredictable consequences — keep believing him.
— Михaйлo Пoдoляк (@Podolyak_M) September 27, 2022
Specialists have said 300,000 extra Russians will be called up to go about as a component of the planning campaign. A couple of regions lining Ukraine in the southern and central piece of Russia, similar to the Kursk locale, are critical grain producers.
Putin in like manner let the social occasion in on that Russia is on track to procure a record grain gather of 150 million tons, including 100 million tons of wheat, in 2022.