 Dozens of young Crimean conscripts were seen off for the start of their active duty in the Russian army after a ceremony at an assembly point in the city of Simferopol in Russian-controlled Crimea. On October 23. The new recruits were called up during the autumn draft campaign that started after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree in September for the routine autumn conscription campaign, calling up 130,000 citizens for statutory military service . A total of 2,000 men from Crimea are expected to join the ranks of the Russian army this autumn. Some of them will serve in Crimea, others will be transferred to Russia at Russia's seized Crimea in 2014, eight years before sending tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine. Moscow has a huge concentration of forces on the Black Sea territory, all men in Russia are required to do a year-long military service between the ages of 18 and 27, or equivalent training while in higher education. Last year, Russia announced a plan to boost its professional and conscripted combat personnel by more than 30 percent to 1.5 million, an ambitious task made harder by its heavy but undisclosed casualties in Ukraine, Ukraine says it will not rest until every last Russian soldier is ejected from its land. The West says it wants to help Ukraine defeat Russia and Ayn Kremlin officials say is an unrealistic pipe dream, asterisk this content was produced in a region of Ukraine controlled by Russia, whose law restricts coverage of Russian military operations in Ukraine.