Ukraine conflict: Rebels declare general mobilisation as fighting grows
Source: BBC
Ukraine's Russian-backed breakaway eastern territories have ordered military mobilisations amid an escalation in fighting.
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Monitors report a "dramatic increase" in attacks along the line dividing rebel and government forces.
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Decreeing the mobilisation, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, called on "all men capable of bearing arms to rise to the defence of their families, children, wives and mothers".
"Through our joint efforts, we will achieve the victory we desire and need," he wrote on Telegram. "We will defend the Donbas and all Russian people."
In Luhansk, separatist leader Leonid Pasechnik forbade all men aged 18-55 to leave the territory and said the authorities there reserved the right to requisition vehicles and other property for the "needs of the defence".
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60443504
Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)People who live in one country but profess a loyalty to another are traitors to the country and people where they live.
Lines on a border mean little to idiots who cant recognize countries on a map. Their loyalty is to themselves only. Its the problem exposed by a successful first amendment, and weve yet to manage that corrosive side-effect of free speech.
When we do, propagandists are finished.
wnylib
(21,481 posts)Ukraine as his excuse for going in to defend Russians living there. A separatist movement.
Ford_Prefect
(7,901 posts)wnylib
(21,481 posts)insurrection in the US. And American traitors are supporting it.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)I still think that one of the reasons that Putin is doing this is to deflect the trump crime spree here in the states, besides the other one that he is just narcissistic as Trump and he has nuclear weapons.....this is not going to end well unless someone blinks and if they do its still going to get bloody.....