Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial military mobilisation, Russian state-owned news agency TASS reported, citing the Mash Telegram channel.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had signed a decree on partial mobilisation beginning, saying he was defending Russian territories and that the West wanted to destroy the country.
In a televised address, Putin said his aim was to “liberate” east Ukraine’s Donbas region, and that most people in the region did not want to return to what he called the “yoke” of Ukraine.
