Russia unveiled its annual fall draft on Tuesday with the dubious promise that the 120,000 potential recruits would be sent to fight in Ukraine.
Rear Admiral Vladimir Tsimlyansky said the task “had nothing to do with carrying out the army’s special operation in Ukraine. ” The Russians call the war a “special operation. “
The Washington-based Institute for War Studies said in its most recent assessment that Russian officials, involved in circumventing drafts, are “trying to lie to the Russian population into believing that the fall conscripts will not be sent to fight in Ukraine. “The assessment indicates that Russia does not want the areas it has annexed, where some of the most brutal fighting is taking place, to be Ukraine.
“Recruits will almost be sent to Ukraine once their education ends around March or April 2023, and possibly will be sent earlier in reaction to changes on the battlefield,” the assessment says.
The assignment comes days after the completion of Russia’s “partial mobilization” assignment that added 300,000 army reservists, mostly with combat experience. They were told they would go through education before being sent to the “army’s special operation” in Ukraine to serve as an occupying force in the already occupied territories.
Britain’s Ministry of Defense, however, reported that thousands of those recruits had been sent to the front, many with weapons that “are in mildly usable condition. “Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday that the “inconveniences” noted at the initial level of the call had been corrected.
Other developments:
Iran will send about 1,000 more weapons, adding short-range ballistic missiles and more attack drones, to Russia for use in its war against Ukraine, CNN reported, citing officials from a Western country that closely monitors Iran’s weapons program. it has already provided Russia with explosive drones.
The National Constitution Center will present its annual Medal of Freedom to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for his “heroic defense of freedom against Russian tyranny. “Zelenskyy said he would donate the $100,000 prize to the Ukrainian Veterans Fund.
►Explosions rocked the city of Poltava in northeastern Ukraine, Governor Dmytro Lunin said on Telegram. Four Russian drones crashed into buildings and fires, 3 more drones were shot down, Lunin said.
Ships loaded with grain leave Ukraine despite Russia’s suspension from participation in a UN-brokered deal that promises approval of essential wartime food materials. The UN said Tuesday that 3 ships carrying cornmeal, wheat and sunflower meal departed through a Black Sea humanitarian room established in July. A total of 14 ships also set sail on Monday. Analysts say Russia is still bound by the terms of the grain deal it signed with Turkey and the UN, adding a pledge not to attack civilian ships carrying grain that Africa and elsewhere desperately need.
International experts have nearly finished an investigation into unsubstantiated Russian claims that Ukraine is making a radioactive “dirty bomb” at two sites amid developing protection considerations at a war-torn nuclear power plant, the world nuclear force leader said on Tuesday.
Russian state media RIA Novosti said it knew of the Eastern Mineral Enrichment Plant in the central Dnipropetrovsk region and the Kyiv Nuclear Research Institute as the places where the bomb was being developed. The Ukrainian government denies this claim and has asked the International Atomic Energy Agency to investigate.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, the agency’s director general, said he would deliver his first findings on the most recent claims by the end of the week.
But Grossi also reiterated his considerations on protecting the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, which has been occupied by Russian forces for months. through Russia to sign new employment contracts to update contracts with Ukraine’s national operator, Energoatom.
Water and the electric city were fully restored in Kyiv, a day after a Russian missile strike targeted critical infrastructure and crippled the city of 3 million people, Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said. Monday’s attack in the morning rush hour drove travelers to safety, cut off water supplies to 80 percent of the city and cut off the force on thousands of homes and businesses.
“I ask the other people of Kyiv to save electricity, especially in the morning and evening rush hours,” Klitschko said on Telegram. “This is very important because the (damage) in Ukraine’s energy formula is significant. “
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