Seven months after the Russian president announced the “special operation” in Ukraine, comes the partial mobilization of the population for the war, which will affect some 300,000 reservists. “We are on the 210th day of the Three-Day War,” the Ukrainian government jokes.
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Putin this Wednesday brought about the partial mobilization of the population for the war in Ukraine, which, according to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigú, will hit about 300,000 reservists, who has recognized for the third time since the start of the military operation. killed nearly 6,000 Russian soldiers.
In Ukraine, Mijailo Podolyak, adviser to the president, Volodimir Zelensky, has expressed irony: “It is the 210th day of the Three-Day War.” The Russians, who demanded the destruction of Ukraine, were eventually given mobilization, closing borders, blocking bank accounts, prison for desertion and special units in private paramilitary organizations “for the last in the prison hierarchy.
Putin, for his part, pleads to justify the partial mobilization that “the majority of the population of Donbass no longer wants to be under the yoke of UkraineThe announcement comes after the pro-Russian leaders of the Donbass announced referendums for its annexation to Russia.
“all means”
The Russian president has warned the West that he will “use all means to defend our people” in light of what he says is “aggression against Russia; they want to destroy us”. “We have a lot of weapons, this is not a bluffhe warned, before denouncing that the West is even using “nuclear blackmail”. NATO blames the possibility of using weapons of mass destruction against Russia,” he explained.
He stressed that the people of Russia can rest assured that “the territorial integrity, independence and freedom of the country are guaranteed”. “And those who try to blackmail us with the nuclear weapon should know that the compass rose can turn in their direction,” he warned.
Mobilized Reservists they have no choice. The Russian parliament has passed laws that increase the penalty for desertion, voluntary surrender or refusal to participate in the battle, up to ten years in prison. In a clear gesture of civil disobedience, the Vesná (Spring) peace movement has called for a national protest in Russia against the partial mobilization. So, under the slogan “No to mobilization”, Russian citizens are called upon to gather in their cities. One-way flights from Russia are selling out at a dizzying pace, even to the point where some of them have sold out.
Here’s how the nearly seven-month war in Ukraine evolved:
February 24: The invasion of Ukraine begins, according to the Kremlin’s “special operation”, with attacks in Kiev, the capital, in the country’s second-largest city, Kharkov, and in Dnipro. The last two places are located in the eastern half of the territory.
February 26 – The West approves massive sanctions against Russia and offers military aid to Ukraine.
February 27 – Russian troops reach the outskirts of Kharkov.
March 1: Russia invades Kherson, a region bordering Crimea, and continues the siege of Mariupol, a strategic port on the Sea of Azov.
March 4: Russia attacks Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhzhya, and takes control of the Chernobyl plant five days later.
April 1: Russian troops withdraw from the outskirts of Kiev, the first indication that the “special military operation” did not deliver the expected results. NATO assures that Russian troops will not withdraw, but will regroup in Donbass.
April 4 – More than 400 civilian bodies are discovered in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kiev.
April 19: Moscow announces the second phase of the war to liberate Donbass.
April 21: Russia claims to have captured Mariupol, although it admits there is still a resistance group at the Azovstal steel plant. Ukraine gives up the battle in Azovstal on May 17.
May 25 – Russia accelerates its offensive in the Donbass towards the strategic enclave of Severodonetsk.
May 30 – Russians enter Severodonetsk to control Luhansk.
June 25 – Russia completely takes Severodonetsk, after the withdrawal of Ukrainian soldiers.
July 3: Russia considers Lisichansk taken and with it the entire region.
July 16: Russia increases its attacks in Donetsk.
July 24-28: Ukrainian troops advance towards Kherson after days of shelling the bridges over the Dnieper River, key to supplying this city, in an attempt to recapture it.
August 13 – Heavy Russian fighting in Donetsk and Zaporizhzhya, though Russian offensive in Donbass stalls.
September 11: Ukraine takes the lead in the war, with its counter-attacks in the south and east of the country, and, after changing the situation at the front, after a summer of positional fighting in Donbass, it prepares to launch the offensive to continue. He says he has already restored 3,000 square kilometers.
September 12 – The Ukrainian Armed Forces have liberated about 500 square kilometers of territory in the south of the country from Russian occupation, said Nataliya Humenyuk, head of the Press Center for the Joint Coordination of the Armed Forces of Southern Ukraine. The withdrawal of Russian troops from northern Ukraine has not been welcomed by the war party, which consists of regional leaders and retired Kremlin military officers, bloggers and propagandists, all of whom are highly critical of the ongoing military campaign.
September 13 – Russian Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov admits that the “special military operation” in Ukraine has turned into a war and resources need to be mobilized. The Kremlin has ruled out general or partial mobilization of the population, despite the withdrawal of Russian troops from eastern Ukraine, which has been strongly criticized by supporters of a much more aggressive military campaign in the neighboring country. Zelensky assures that Ukrainian troops liberated “more than 6,000 square kilometers of territory” in the east and south of the country in September.
September 16: 440 unidentified graves are located in the Ukrainian city of Izium, in Kharkov, occupied by the Russian army until a few days earlier and recovered by Ukraine. Vladimir Putin rejects the possibility of a change of strategy on the battlefield in Ukraine, despite the successful Ukrainian counter-offensive in the eastern region of Kharkov. “The special military operation plan does not need to change,” he said at a news conference after the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in the historic Uzbek city of Samarkand.
September 20: The parliaments of the self-declared people’s republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, recognized by the Kremlin last February, call a referendum on integration with Russia from September 23 to 27.
September 21: Putin announces a “partial mobilization” in a televised address to the nation, accusing the West of seeking the destruction of Russia.
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