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Shoyu was talking about extending the length of the conscript period because at present you are drafted for 12 months according to most Russian officers that I've spoken to. If you can extend the conscription period to 18 months or even going back to the Soviet era 24 months you actually dramatically expand the period in which they are usable soldiers and you do that presumably because you're actually thinking using them. So we may see conscripts going into the war in 2023 and that's something which would actually potentially have a pretty significant impact on the situation there but again the fact that we haven't so far shows that despite all its strong words the Kremlin is aware that there are political costs to everything