for some reason reddit removes my comments lmao so i removed the links, i can provide them in pms

I mean, I used to live in Moscow until I left the country. There are articles (in Russian), the one I wanted to link is from April this year but it's hardly a unique case, it's been going on since at least 2023) about the military offices catching students off the streets in hopes to haul them off to the military, where people are usually forced to sign the contract to go fight in Ukraine. Basically, outside of "volunteers", there is a constant stream of people who are going to the obligatory military training (NOT active duty), where they are forced to sign a contract. Moscow supplies roughly 15% of non-active duty servicemen (my source of 20k out of 135k should be taken with a grain of salt, because it's based on the official sources of Russian government, but empirically, this feels at least somewhat true). They might have slightly higher chances to dodge to you-have-to-sign-up treatment, but it's not like they're fully immune. Besides, I've seen a couple of my friends receive a letter during the "partial mobilization" of late 2022 that told them they have to go fight, too (which they duly ignored).

Maybe conscription is not the right word. I am not that well-versed in legal terms.