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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rory Sullivan

Russia could draft ‘up to one million soldiers’ to fight in Ukraine

AP

Moscow is looking to mobilise up to one million reservists for the Ukraine war, not 300,000, according to Russian media reports.

A secret clause in Russian president Vladimir Putin’s “partial” mobilisation decree permits the Kremlin to draft far more soldiers taht was announced, a source told the Novaya Gazeta Europe newspaper.

“They changed the figure several times and eventually settled on a million,” the source said.

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