UKRAINE: Putin Announces Partial Mobilization
Reports have indicated that Russia has lost land to a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday announced that he authorized a partial mobilization of his military after reports indicated that his forces lost ground in Ukraine.
“Only citizens who are currently in the reserve and, above all, those who served in the Armed Forces, have certain military specialties and relevant experience, will be subject to conscription,” Putin said.
Dimitri Alexander Simes, a journalist, tweeted that the partial mobilization “will allow Russia to replenish its fighting force in Ukraine by drawing upon its estimated two million military reservists.”
WHY IT MATTERS: Russia has lost some ground in recent weeks during a Ukrainian counteroffensive, and there’s a general feeling that Putin could be feeling new pressure at home. It was believed that he was going to use his address to the nation to announce the mobilization of 2 million Russian troops and comment on referendums taking hold in Luhansk and other oblasts.
WHAT THEY’RE SAYING: Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters at the UN General Assembly in New York that Russia is getting desperate.
“The sham referenda and the potential mobilization of additional forces isn’t a sign of strength. On the contrary, it’s a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of Russian failure,” he said, according to CNBC.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addressed the delegates at the UN on Tuesday and said Russia needs to recognize that it cannot win in Ukraine.
“This is why we will not accept any peace dictated by Russia and this is why Ukraine must be able to fend off Russia’s attack,” he said.
WHAT PUTIN SAYS: On Tuesday, Putin said the U.S. cannot maintain its hegemony forever, “regardless of the developments in Ukraine.”
Putin, once again, accused Ukraine of refusing to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the nearly seven-month-long conflict.
Putin met with Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister, during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
Modi told his Russian counterpart, “I know that today’s era is not of war and we have talked to you many times over the phone on the subject that democracy and diplomacy and dialogue are all these things that touch the world.” Putin told Modi that he understands his position on the matter and he will do all he can to end the conflict as “quickly as possible.”
Putin said during his speech Wednesday that the West doesn't want peace between Russia and Ukraine. Putin’s move “could serve as a pretext for the Kremlin to upgrade its “special military operation” in Ukraine to a formal declaration of war, which would then allow it to begin military and economic mobilization,” Simes tweeted.
Simes noted that Putin also called on Russian arms manufacturers to ramp up their production.
UKRAINE: Putin Announces Partial Mobilization
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