Foreign Affairs

Also, any “selected employee” by the bank would have to be trained by the military and necessarily enlist in the military before they can be trained.

So - a way to increase conscription.

Russia must be truly suffering, seriously, economically.  Clearly, potential conscripts are leaving the country left right and center.

Those actions last year are consistent with something else they have recently done...

Putin is now offering enlistees to the military a signup inducement to have their personal debts forgiven

That removal will not be because the government will pay off their personal loans, but it will tell the banks and companies that the government will NOT aid enforcing their collection, putting the losses on the companies and the banks that have made the loans, rather than the burden being on the government to pay the enlistee their sign-up bonus

They are getting more and more desperate as this grinds on