"There is no scenario today that requires mobilization," Putin said during an appearance at a conference in Vladivostok.
It is a disinformation campaign the enemy is conducting ahead of the State Duma elections, and it is aimed at influencing the outcome.
Ukraine has claimed that Putin is about to order further mobilisation to bring soldiers into the war, which many observers have also predicted given the enormous number of soldiers killed in the war.
The last formal mobilisation in the fall of 2022 was deeply unpopular and drove scores of Russian men into exile. The Russian State Duma elections in two weeks are designed for the president's ruling party to win.
