Moscow Times – Sept 21, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a “partial” military mobilization in Russia during a televised address Wednesday morning.
“Mobilization measures will begin today, Sept. 21,” Putin said.
The move comes as Russia’s troops have taken weeks of major battlefield losses in Ukraine and as Kyiv presses onward with its sweeping counteroffensive in the northeast.
Putin said he would inform lawmakers of both houses of Russia’s parliament in writing later Wednesday.
“Only those citizens currently in the reserve will be subject to a call-up for military service, first and foremost those who have served in the ranks of the Armed Forces,” Putin said in the pre-recorded video address.
In a televised address minutes after Putin had finished speaking, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that 300,000 Russian reservists will be called up for service as part of the “partial” mobilization.
Putin justified the decision by describing fierce battles for the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine and claiming that the West was pushing Ukraine to attack Russian territory.
“In Washington, London and Brussels they are directly pushing Kyiv to shift the military action to our territory… they talk about how all available means should be used to destroy Russia on the battlefield with the ensuing loss of political, economic, cultural and all types of sovereignty and the total plundering of our country,” Putin said.
Shoigu later said: “We’re killing, killing and killing, and that time has come: we’re at war with the collective West.”
A decree on mobilization subsequently published on the Kremlin’s website stated that mobilized soldiers’ contracts will not expire “until the end of the partial mobilization,” with only age, health and imprisonment listed as possible exceptions.
All those to be mobilized to fight in Ukraine will receive the same salaries and bonuses as those who sign a military contract to serve in the Armed Forces and mobilized men will undergo extra training before being sent to the front, Putin said.
In the first official estimate of Russia’s battlefield losses since late March, Shoigu announced that 5,937 Russian soldiers had been killed in Ukraine since the start of the fighting. Evidence from the battlefield and publicly available information in Russia suggests the real figure is significantly higher.
Shoigu claimed Wednesday more than 61,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed and 49,000 wounded since February.
people talk about rothschild and the jews starving us like they did in the great depression
but israel starving out palestine has gone in waves since 1948
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/09/20/689532/Report-100s-households-Israeli-occupied-lands-food-insecure
This is it, with the referenda, this means the end of the SMO, which has been mostly conducted by forces from Eastern UKraine and Chechnya. Now the Russian military can take the gloves.
Putin says he’s ready to use nukes, well, all I can say, is get on with it.
As some in the Russian fake news said, ‘we missed a big opportunity to wipe out the NWO filth who were gathered in Westminster Abbey.
All of this could have been avoided if the USA was not so greedy. Deep down I think that the West will receive the worst of it in the end. Russia is not a third-world country. Her resources and superior technology is going to rise up and bite us in the ass.
If the West’s long game is plan B or plan C or D.
Plan A being Russian capitulation and plan B, C or D economic collapse and famine to facilitate their reset.
Russia’s plan B, C, or D must be to to extricate countries in the East and global South away from the West where they might fare better and enjoy greater security in the East.
There has been a divorce…
It remains to be seen which side, East or West fares better?
PS: I appreciate David Lambert’s concern for the ill treated and victimized Palestinian people.
Who knows perhaps most of the Middle East will side with the East.
> Putin says he’s ready to use nukes, well, all I can say, is get on with it.
I assume we’re all glad jones isn’t in charge?
> Who knows perhaps most of the Middle East will side with the East.
When the war finally kicks off, jewland will be bombed by half a dozen countries, so that’ll be the end of that particular nest.
note that moscow times is a cia/mossad mouthpiece.
putin’s war is an existential one against jew tikkun olam world dominance.
i would advise putin, shoigu and the patriot cohort to get on with it right in jew’s ugly face.
that way lies respect—the only way with jew
The western media is saying Russians are buying one-way tickets to flee Russia, but as Russia is the biggest country on earth, wouldn’t they just go to the less populated parts of Russia? The media could say Russians are fleeing Moscow, but then I think that lie just isn’t big enough for them.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/one-way-flights-out-of-russia-sell-out-as-vladimir-putin-calls-for-300000-reservists-to-send-to-ukraine-104239482.html
I’m just praying a nuke lands in the lap of The Tea-Lady…
and vaporises that silly cow.
To talk of ‘Russian setbacks’ is to parrot Western propaganda. Not that that should come as any surprise, as the Moscow Times is at best run by useful idiots.
The Russians launched the SMO because they knew that Ukraine-NATO were about to attack Donbass. The same probably applies here – the Russians are mobilising in anticipation of an all-out attack by an increasingly desperate NATO.
Scott Ritter predicted this, the new manpower increases are necessary for the next phase of the operation. If the imbeciles in NATO respond by supplying long range missiles then as Russia has stated the red line has been crossed. Again listen to Ritter for an accurate assessment of the situation
This is a time when lunatics can be pinned down and forced to look reality in the eye. The criminality is denial and insanity, joy in predation
The Tv and media are far more powerful than nukes. They will not be used.