mobilization
Russia is inflating the true number of new contract soldiers it is recruiting by one-and-a-half times, according to a joint investigation by Important Stories and the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) published on Aug. 1. The Russian Defense Ministry announced in December that there were 640,000 soldiers serving under contract. But citing data from Russian federal budget expenditures, Important Stories and CIT said only 426,000 Russians had received a one-time payment for signing a contract during the period from autumn 2022 to April 2024. According to the outlets, this leaves a discrepancy of ...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Russia is inflating the true number of new contract soldiers it is recruiting by one-and-a-half times, according to a joint investigation by Important Stories and the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) published on Aug. 1. The Russian Defense Ministry announced in December that there were 640,000 soldiers serving under contract. But citing data from Russian federal budget expenditures, Important Stories and CIT said only 426,000 Russians had received a one-time payment for signing a contract during the period from autumn 2022 to April 2024. According to the outlets, this leaves a discrepancy of ...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Russia is inflating the true number of new contract soldiers it is recruiting by one-and-a-half times, according to a joint investigation by Important Stories and the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) published on Aug. 1. The Russian Defense Ministry announced in December that there were 640,000 soldiers serving under contract. But citing data from Russian federal budget expenditures, Important Stories and CIT said only 426,000 Russians had received a one-time payment for signing a contract during the period from autumn 2022 to April 2024. According to the outlets, this leaves a discrepancy of ...
Kyiv Independent
Adopting demobilization law now could repeat the "mistake" of the Ukrainian People's Republic during its war against the Bolsheviks in 1918, said Ruslan Stefanchuk, speaker of Ukraine's parliament, on national television on July 25. Most Ukrainian soldiers cannot legally demobilize and have been serving without any long-term breaks for the third year in a row since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. "I do not know of a country that demobilized people during the war. Excuse me, I do know such a country – the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918. At that time, Defense Min...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Adopting demobilization law now could repeat the "mistake" of the Ukrainian People's Republic during its war against the Bolsheviks in 1918, said Ruslan Stefanchuk, speaker of Ukraine's parliament, on national television on July 25. Most Ukrainian soldiers cannot legally demobilize and have been serving without any long-term breaks for the third year in a row since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. "I do not know of a country that demobilized people during the war. Excuse me, I do know such a country – the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918. At that time, Defense Min...
Kyiv Independent
Adopting demobilization law now could repeat the "mistake" of the Ukrainian People's Republic during its war against the Bolsheviks in 1918, said Ruslan Stefanchuk, speaker of Ukraine's parliament, on national television on July 25. Most Ukrainian soldiers cannot legally demobilize and have been serving without any long-term breaks for the third year in a row since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. "I do not know of a country that demobilized people during the war. Excuse me, I do know such a country – the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918. At that time, Defense Min...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
By early 2024, 40-year-old Pavlo Kovtoniuk had begun to understand that Russia’s two-year-long full-scale war against his country would require him to serve in the army sooner or later. But it wasn’t until two months ago that he updated his personal information with enlistment authorities – after the government launched the online application Reserv+. This new app made the process quick and easy. It took him 10 minutes to fulfill his constitutional duty online instead of the weeks he feared the “classic process” would take with the queues and bureaucracy at the Soviet-styled draft offices. "Th...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
By early 2024, 40-year-old Pavlo Kovtoniuk had begun to understand that Russia’s two-year-long full-scale war against his country would require him to serve in the army sooner or later. But it wasn’t until two months ago that he updated his personal information with enlistment authorities – after the government launched the online application Reserv+. This new app made the process quick and easy. It took him 10 minutes to fulfill his constitutional duty online instead of the weeks he feared the “classic process” would take with the queues and bureaucracy at the Soviet-styled draft offices. "Th...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
By early 2024, 40-year-old Pavlo Kovtoniuk had begun to understand that Russia’s two-year-long full-scale war against his country would require him to serve in the army sooner or later. But it wasn’t until two months ago that he updated his personal information with enlistment authorities – after the government launched the online application Reserv+. This new app made the process quick and easy. It took him 10 minutes to fulfill his constitutional duty online instead of the weeks he feared the “classic process” would take with the queues and bureaucracy at the Soviet-styled draft offices. "Th...
Kyiv Independent
A Ukrainian journalist has been arrested, accused of calling for armed resistance to mobilization into the country's armed forces, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said on July 23. The "former host of popular Ukrainian television programs" along with seven other people, allegedly conducted "informational and subversive activities for the benefit of the aggressor country." The SBU said in a press release these included calling for armed resistance to Ukraine's ongoing mobilization efforts. According to Ukrainska Pravda sources, the journalist in question is 44-year-old Zhan Novoseltsev, wh...
Kyiv Independent
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