Mobilization in Ukraine will be difficult, Mikhail Podoliak, a top aide to President Vladimir Zelensky, has acknowledged, adding that Kiev intends to hone its propaganda campaign for this purpose. Speaking on Ukrainian TV on Friday, Podoliak was asked to comment on a recent raid by Ukrainian officials and armed service …
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The Russian military leadership has no plans to conduct mobilization as its current needs are fulfilled by career military service members, including those who volunteered to fight against Ukraine, according to a senior official. The pledge not to draft additional troops was reiterated on Friday by Vladimir Tsimlyansky, the deputy …
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Russia’s partial mobilization has been completed, with 300,000 reservists drafted as planned, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin on Friday, providing new details about the effort. The draft was announced in September amid Moscow’s ongoing military operation in Ukraine. “The dispatch of citizens …
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Moscow is shutting down mobilization stations on Monday, after completing its plan for enrolling military reservists, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has announced. He added that the draft notices already sent to people’s homes and workplaces are no longer considered valid. “The mobilization has been a serious test to thousands of families …
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A media report claiming that the partial mobilization decree signed by President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday allows for one million people to be called up for military service has been dismissed by Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov. “This is a lie,” Peskov told journalists on Thursday. Earlier in the day, …
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Reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to formally declare war on Ukraine and launch a full mobilization of forces as early as Monday are not true, the speaker of Russia’s parliament has insisted. Earlier this week, unnamed US and Western officials told CNN that Putin was going to use “the symbolic …
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has declared a “general mobilization” of the country’s population, calling up conscripts and reserve forces to bolster Kiev’s military across the country following Russia’s “special operation” in the Donbass, which also targeted sites in Ukraine. The mobilization should be carried out within the next 90 days, …
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The head of the breakaway Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in eastern Ukraine announced on Saturday that he ordered the mobilization of all able men in response to massive shelling along the frontline. “I urge compatriots who are in the [army] reserve to come to military enlistment offices,” Denis Pushilin said …
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“Azerbaijani President [Ilham Aliyev] has signed a decree on the partial mobilization in Azerbaijan,” his press service told Russia’s news agency RIA Novosti earlier on Monday. The mobilization decree is in force from the date of signature, the presidency clarified. Aliyev had previously made an emotional address to the nation, …
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The nationwide conscription call and martial law were both announced by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan earlier on Sunday. His Facebook post urged reservists to turn up at their territorial recruitment offices “for the sake of our homeland and for the sake of victory.” The call to arms and martial law …
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