1/ Entry to Uranus is reportedly blocked for unknown reasons, despite it taking a hard pounding in southern Ukraine. Would-be applicants to join the Roscosmos-sponsored private military company, as well as other Russian PMCs, say that all recruitment has been halted. ⬇️ 
2/ Uranus was launched by the Russian space agency Roscosmos in 2023 to recruit rocket scientists and engineers to serve as "Imperial Stormtroopers" [sic] in Ukraine. Its members have reportedly been fighting in Krynky in the Kherson region.
https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1666541551273607168
3/ Ukrainian resistance at Krynky is likely to have severely battered Uranus, which reportedly has a constant urgent need for a supply of fresh men. However, Roscosmos has stopped recruiting, without any explanation. Its representatives cannot say when it will resume.
4/ Other PMCs are reportedly in the same situation. The remnants of the Wagner Group – now under the command of the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardia) – are also no longer seeking recruits to fight in Ukraine, but now only offer "hot trips" to Africa.
5/ Similarly, the Moscow Region "Elite" regiment of Governor Andrei Vorobyov had earlier carried out a heavily-publicised recruitment campaign, but is now not recruiting at all.
6/ The reason for this abrupt and seemingly coordinated cessation of recruitment activity is unclear, but one possibility is that the Russian government may be trying to wind down the PMCs and redirect their recruitment into the ranks of the regular army.
7/ The Russian government has made a considerable effort over the past 18 months to strengthen its ability to identify those subject to mobilisation, for instance digitising records previously only held in paper format and delivering call-up orders electronically.
8/ In the Moscow region, for instance, the Moscow mayor's office reportedly orders all organisations and enterprises to declare weekly how many working men of military age they employ and who is liable for military service.
9/ Since the end of January 2024, Moscow employers' personnel managers are now required to send digital records of all of their men on the military register and notify it with the voenkomat (military commissariat) at 5 Yablochkova Street in Moscow.
10/ It's possible that the reason for the apparent ending of PMC recruitment may be that the Russian government is trying to simplify the wide variety of military formations in Ukraine, by allowing the PMCs to die out through attrition without allowing them to replenish. /end
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