What happens is that many conscripts are bullied or coerced into signing a “contract” to become a professional soldier, and thus they are no longer conscripts.
This is one of the ways Putin is finding fresh meat to be sent into the grinder in Ukraine.
He may get as much as say, 20% conversion of these new conscripts into contract soldiers, which would still give him tens of thousands of bodies to throw into the cauldron of Ukraine.
With the strict censorship and the elimination of independent news sources in Russia, many conscripts who convert into contract soldiers will have no idea what they are getting into.
Sounds like refreshing a “Iranian Horde” approach that was fairly effective in Iraq to overwhelm sunni’s in their internecine battles. Ammo runs out, will fails.
Big populations can provide such catastrophic attacks that lose half or more of boots. Wait till China tries that again with Taiwan. (Or Russian central asian republics)