Since the president, more and more Russian citizens have been trying to leave the country Wladimir Putin announced last Wednesday the mobilization of at least 300,000 soldiers. The BBC reports that they enter at the border Georgia there is a ten-kilometer queue and traffic at the border between Finland and Russia has also increased. On the Russian operational front, after the defeats on the battlefield, a new senior army rank was removed from Moscow: the general Dmitry BulgakovChief Logistics Officer, relieved of his duties as Deputy Secretary of Defense and replaced by the General Mikhail Mizintsevsaid the Secretary of Defense Sergei Shoigu. Mizintsev, nickname “The Butcher of Mariupol” and hit by Western sanctions, he will be “responsible for Material and technical supply of the Armed Forces” while Russia is in the midst of the mobilization campaign. “Bulgakov – explains a statement – was transferred to a new post”. And the President Zelenskyy attacks Israel: “He sells guns all over the world, but he refused to help us.”
Intano continues to force residents to vote amid threats and intimidation referendum to the the annexation of the occupied territories to Russia: Voting ends on September 27 and affects the Ukrainian regions Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia, under the partial or full control of Russian forces. The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has renewed a request for the world not to recognize the result. An appeal to which the leaders of the G7. And on Saturday the American President Joe Biden assures that the United States and its allies will impose new “swift and severe” economic sanctions on Russia if it annexes territories in Ukraine: “Referendums are a sham, a false pretext to try to legislate parts of Ukraine in flagrant violation of the to annex international law and the Charter of the United Nations”. And again: “I stand with our partners around the world and every nation that respects the fundamental principles of the Charter of the United Nations in rejecting any contrived result that Russia will announce.”
even there Turkey announced that he would not recognize the result of the vote in the Russian referendum, the spokesman for the Turkish presidency said Ibrahim KalinAs Ukrinform reports, citing CNN Türk: “We do not consider the unilateral referendum attempts to be correct because we did not recognize the referendum Crimea in 2014 and its outcome, our position on these referendums is clear. We recognize the territorial integrity of the Ukrainian people and state. We are with Ukraine,” Kalin said. In the past few hours, the G7 states had also issued a joint declaration “calling on all states to unequivocally reject these fictitious referendums”, “simulacra” that “have neither effect nor legitimacy”. “It is impossible to vote against the referendum on the annexation of Russia because armed men control what people write. After that, the Russians issue passports to the men and immediately send conscripts to join the Federation Army,” said the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, quoted by UNIAN.
Meanwhile, the flight of conscripts and the President of the European Council in Russia continues Karl Michael he said the European Union should show “Openness to those who don’t want to be exploited by the Kremlin”. “Basically, I think the European Union should take in those who are at risk because of their political views,” he said in an interview with Politico on the sidelines of the UN meeting in New York. “If people in Russia are at risk because of their political views, because they don’t follow this crazy decision by the Kremlin to start this war in Ukraine, we have to take that into account,” Michel said.
Also in the occupied Zaporizhia region and the Kherson region to the men who received them Federation passports notification about Call for mobilization As announced by Vladimir Putin, the Ukrainian General Staff said on Facebook: “In the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions, the occupation authorities have started notifying men of draft age who have renounced Ukrainian citizenship and received Russian Federation passports.” The Ukrainian Defense Ministry added that “the military of the Russian occupying forces continue to commit illegal actions against the civilian population, continue to loot and sell the property of Ukrainian citizens.”
Tensions continue to mount, so much so that the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Joseph BorrellHe warned not to underestimate Putin’s nuclear threat: “It is certainly a dangerous moment because the Russian army has been cornered and Putin’s reaction of threatening to use nuclear weapons is very serious. When people say it’s not a bluff, you have to take them seriously“.
For his part, Zelenskyy appealed to the foreign armed forces to request further military support in order to recapture as many areas occupied by the Russians as possible. Then he lashes out at Israel, which is guilty of not supporting the cause of Kiev: “Israel gave us nothing. zero – said TG5 Monde – I understand that you are in a difficult position with that Syria and with Russia, “said the leader of Kyiv, recalling how the Jewish state provided humanitarian aid, but refused all requests for weapons, especially for anti-aircraft systems which, according to Zelenskyy, urgently needs to protect Ukraine from Russian raids. “Israeli public opinion – he added – is not like that at all and I think it supports us. I don’t blame its leaders. But these are the facts. There were talks with the Israeli leadership and that didn’t help Ukraine. Instead of this the influence of Russia in Israel can be observed, which I consider an independent state. I am sorry that the anti-aircraft weapons we needed were not delivered. I want to be clear that fools me because at the same time Israel is exporting its arms to other countries”.
This morning at dawn a Zaporizhia There was another Russian attack: according to Ukrainian media, seven other people were seriously injured in the apartment building hit by a rocket. “After an enemy attack in Zaporizhia, a house was damaged. There are victims,” the interim mayor wrote on Telegram Anatoly Kurtiev. The rescue service is on duty at the scene of the raid. Yesterday, Russian bombing raids again damaged the city’s civilian infrastructure and “more casualties were reported,” according to Ukrainian sources.