MOSCOW, July 4 (Reuters) - Around 190,000 recruits have signed contracts to join the Russian military so far in 2024, state-run RIA news agency quoted former president Dmitry Medvedev as saying on Thursday.

Medvedev, who is deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said the current average recruitment rate was about 1,000 people a day.

Russia is encouraging people to sign up for the war in Ukraine by paying them well above average wages. President Vladimir Putin has said Moscow has no need to enforce a new round of compulsory mobilization because so many men are signing up on voluntary contracts.

(Reporting by Reuters Writing by Maxim Rodionov; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)