{"id":258920,"date":"2022-09-21T07:58:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T07:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=258920"},"modified":"2022-09-22T06:07:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T06:07:14","slug":"putin-declares-partial-military-mobilization-following-ukraine-setbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=258920","title":{"rendered":"Putin Declares ‘Partial’ Military Mobilization Following Ukraine Setbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moscow Times \u2013 Sept 21, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Russian President Vladimir Putin\u00a0declared<\/a>\u00a0a \u201cpartial\u201d military mobilization in Russia during a televised address Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cMobilization measures will begin today, Sept. 21,\u201d Putin said.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Putin said he would inform lawmakers of both houses of Russia\u2019s parliament in writing later Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly 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,\u201d Putin said in the pre-recorded video address.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cpartial\u201d mobilization.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Washington, London and Brussels they are directly pushing Kyiv to shift the military action to our territory\u2026 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,\u201d Putin said.<\/p>\n

Shoigu later said: \u201cWe\u2019re killing, killing and killing, and that time has come: we\u2019re at war with the collective West.\u201d<\/p>\n

A decree on mobilization subsequently\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0on the Kremlin\u2019s website stated that mobilized soldiers\u2019 contracts will not expire \u201cuntil the end of the partial mobilization,\u201d with only age, health and imprisonment listed as possible exceptions.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In the first official estimate of Russia\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Shoigu claimed Wednesday more than 61,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed and 49,000 wounded since February.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that 300,000 Russian reservists will be called up for service as part of the \u201cpartial\u201d mobilization. (That\u2019s nearly 3 times the size of the present British Army)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":247091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258921,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258920\/revisions\/258921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}