Russia plans to declare the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine “its own” in order to carry out conscription there, analysts say.
The Kremlin will try to “annex” the occupied territories of Ukraine before or after October 1. Thus, Moscow plans to illegally involve Ukrainian citizens in the mobilization. This is stated in the report of the Institute for the Study of War, published on Tuesday, September 27.
“The Kremlin is likely to include Ukrainian citizens in the occupied territories in Russia’s conscription cycle (usually starting on October 1 – ed.), expanding the forced mobilization of Ukrainian citizens to fight in Ukraine,” said of the report.
This category currently does not meet the legal criteria for Putin’s current partial mobilization decree.
“Like “Russian citizens” in accordance with Russian law, Ukrainian men from 18 to 27 years old in the annexed territories will receive the right to military service,” experts said.
Analysts note that some Ukrainians have already been mobilized into the ranks of the RF Armed Forces. In particular, on September 25, the “governor” of Sevastopol Razvozhaev reported on the mobilization of almost 2,000 people in occupied Crimea and Sevastopol.
“The Russian occupation authorities are forcibly mobilizing Ukrainian civilians from all occupied regions in smaller numbers,” they reported.
It should be noted that Russia imposed restrictions on leaving the occupied territories for men under 35 years of age. In Melitopol, the invaders were ordered to form a “volunteer battalion of up to 3,000 men” by October 10.
On Monday, September 26, it became known about the “mobilization” of the male population of the Svatovsky district of the Lugansk region.
Recall that British intelligence believed that Putin hoped to “annex” the occupied territories in order to justify the war in the eyes of the Russians.
Note that Dagestan has been engulfed in protests against the mobilization announced by Putin.
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Source: korrespondent
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