Today “there will be important news for Ukraine: for our soldiers, for our entire nation.” Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, addressed this to the population in the message sent on social channels. “This week has tremendously strengthened our country and our people. “We are working to ensure that in the coming weeks we give Ukraine additional strength, internal strength and the necessary cooperation with the world so that everyone listens to us, understands us and supports us,” says Zelensky, referring to the new weapons packages that the West and especially the USA deliver.
Counteroffensive, Kyiv wants everything
Meanwhile, the counteroffensive continues along the southern route in the Zaporizhzhia region and on the eastern front in the Bakhmut region, where Russia is once again deploying Wagner men. For Kiev, the two phases of the war are inextricably linked.
Secretary of the Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksi Danilov emphasizes the need for a unified strategy to ensure the recapture of the Crimean Peninsula and the Donbass region, which were annexed by Russia in 2014 and in September 2022. “I am not in favor of writing a separate strategy.” “Page for the liberation of the Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimean regions. They should be part of a general strategy,” the senior Ukrainian official said in an interview with Ukrinform news agency today.
Ukraine’s security and defense minister rejects the possibility that the war in his country could develop into a protracted conflict and argues for the need to continue the fight against Russian troops. “They tell us – he says – ‘We will support you until’, and then I don’t see the word ‘victory’ anywhere.”
In Russia, Putin calls another 130,000 men to arms
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed the decree that conscription will begin in the fall between October 1st and December 31st. Conscription affects 130,000 men between the ages of 18 and 27, Russian news agency Ria Novosti reported.
In Russia, there are traditionally two annual draft tenders, one in spring and the other in autumn. Military service lasts 12 months. Rear Admiral Vladimir Tsimlyansky, number two in the Organization and Mobilization Department of the Russian General Staff, stated that the new conscripts will be deployed on Russian territory, but none of them will go to the so-called “new regions”, that is, the occupied territories of Ukraine Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson Oblasts.
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