A young man shot a Russian military officer at close range at an enlistment office Monday, in an unusually bold attack reflecting resistance to the Russian leadership's efforts to mobilize hundreds of thousands of men to wage war on Ukraine.
In the attack in the Siberian city of Ust-Ilimsk, 25-year-old local resident Ruslan Zinin walked into the enlistment office saying"no one will go to fight" and"we will all go home now," according to local media reports.
Blinken said Putin's rhetoric is"irresponsible" and added that the U.S. expressed their concerns to Russia about its threats. Thousands of residents had already fled the regions amid months of incessant fighting, and images shared by those who remained have showed armed Russian troops going door-to-door to pressure Ukrainians into casting a ballot.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday that no date has been set for recognizing the regions as part of Russia, but it could be a question of days. The Kremlin last week announced a partial mobilization - its first since World War II - to add at least 300,000 troops to its force in Ukraine. The move, a sharp shift from Putin's previous efforts to portray the war as a limited military operation that wouldn't interfere with most Russians' lives, proved unpopular at home.
Under normal circumstances, two battalions deploy while a third remains behind to train. But in the Ukraine war, even the third battalion is deploying, weakening that training, the British Defense Ministry said.said in a Facebook post Monday that the Ukrainian military is pushing efforts to take back"the entire territory of Ukraine," and has drawn up plans to counter"new types of weapons" used by Russia, without elaborating.
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