Seven months after the Russian president announced the “special operation” in Ukraine, the partial mobilization of the population for the war arrives, which will affect some 300,000 reservists. “We are on the 210th day of the Three-Day War,” the Ukrainian government jokes.
Of ‘hit-and-run’to decree the partial mobilization of the population for an open war which is accompanied by nuclear threat. Things have changed in ukrainian warseven months after the Russian president, Vladimir Putinwill announce the “special operation” in that country.
Putin has established this Wednesday the partial mobilization of the population for the war in Ukraine, which will affect some 300,000 reservists, according to the Russian Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigú, who has recognized, for the third time since the military operation began , which have killed almost 6000 Russian soldiers.
In Ukraine, Mijailo Podolyak, adviser to the president, Volodimir Zelenski, has thrown irony: “It is the 210th day of the Three Day War.” The Russians, who demanded the destruction of Ukraine, have ended up receiving mobilization, the closure of borders, the blocking of bank accounts, jail for desertion and special units in private paramilitary organizations “for the last in the prison hierarchy.
Putin, for his part, argues to justify the partial mobilization that “the majority of the people of Donbass do not want to come under the yoke of Ukraine again“. The announcement comes after the pro-Russian leaders of the Donbass have announced referendums for its annexation to Russia.
“all resources”
The Russian president has warned the West that he will use “all resources to defend our people”, in the face of what he believes is “aggression against Russia; they want to destroy us”. “We have many weapons, this is not a bluff“, he warned, before denouncing that the West even uses “nuclear blackmail”. NATO charges about the possibility of using weapons of mass destruction against Russia,” he explained.
He stressed that the population of Russia can be sure that “the country’s territorial integrity, independence and freedom are guaranteed”. “And those who try to blackmail us with the nuclear weapon should know that the compass rose can turn in their direction,” she warned.
Reservists who are mobilized they have no choice. The Russian Parliament has approved laws that toughen up to ten years in prison the punishment for desertion, voluntary surrender or refusal to enter combat. In a clear gesture of civil disobedience, the Vesná (Spring) peace movement has called for a national protest in Russia, against the partial mobilization. Thus, under the slogan “No to mobilization”, Russian citizens are called to congregate in their cities. One-way flights out of Russia have sold out at a dizzying pace, to the point of selling out some of them.
This is how the almost seven months of war in Ukraine have evolved:
February 24: the invasion of Ukraine begins, according to the Kremlin “special operation”, with attacks in kyiv, the capital, in the second largest city of the country, Kharkov, and in Dnipro. The last two places are located in the eastern half of the territory.
February 26 – The West adopts massive sanctions against Russia and offers military aid to Ukraine.
February 27 – Russian troops reach the outskirts of Kharkov.
March 1: Russia invades Kherson, a region bordering Crimea, and continues the siege of Mariupol, a strategic port on the Sea of Azov.
March 4: Russia attacks Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhia, and five days later takes control of the Chernobyl plant.
April 1: Russian troops withdraw from the outskirts of kyiv, the first indication that the “special military operation” was not giving the expected results. NATO assures that Russian troops are not withdrawing, but rather regrouping in Donbass.
April 4 – More than 400 civilian bodies are discovered in Bucha, on the outskirts of kyiv.
April 19: Moscow announces the second phase of the war to liberate Donbass.
April 21: Russia claims to have taken Mariupol, although it admits that a pocket of resistance remains at the Azovstal steelworks. Ukraine gives up fighting in Azovstal on May 17.
May 25 – Russia accelerates its offensive in the Donbass towards the strategic enclave of Severodonetsk.
May 30 – Russians enter Severodonetsk, to control Luhansk.
June 25 – Russia completely takes Severodonetsk, after the withdrawal of Ukrainian soldiers.
July 3: Russia considers Lisichansk taken and with it the entire region.
July 16: Russia increases its attacks in Donetsk.
July 24-28: Ukrainian troops advance towards Kherson after days of shelling the bridges over the Dnieper River, key to supplying this city, and in an attempt to recapture it.
August 13 – Heavy Russian fighting in Donetsk and Zaporizhia, though Russian offensive in Donbass stalls.
September 11: Ukraine takes the initiative in the war, with its counterattacks in the south and east of the country, and, after changing the situation on the front, after a summer of positional fighting in Donbass, prepares to continue the offensive. He says he has already recovered 3,000 square kilometers.
September 12 – The Ukrainian Armed Forces have liberated about 500 square kilometers of territory in the south of the country from Russian occupation, according to Nataliya Humenyuk, head of the press center for the joint coordination of the Defense Forces of Southern Ukraine. The withdrawal of Russian troops from northern Ukraine has not been welcomed by the war party, which includes regional leaders as well as retired military officers, bloggers and Kremlin propagandists, all highly critical of the ongoing military campaign.
September 13 – Russian communist leader Gennady Zyuganov admits that the “special military operation” in Ukraine has turned into a war, and resources need to be mobilized. The Kremlin rules out the general or partial mobilization of the population despite the withdrawal of Russian troops from eastern Ukraine, highly criticized by supporters of a much more aggressive military campaign in the neighboring country. Zelenski assures that in September the Ukrainian forces have liberated “more than 6,000 square kilometers of territory” in the east and south of the country.
September 16: 440 unidentified graves are located in the Ukrainian city of Izium, in Kharkov, occupied by the Russian Army until a few days before and which was recovered by Ukraine. Vladimir Putin rejects the possibility of a change of strategy on the battlefield in Ukraine, despite the successful Ukrainian counteroffensive in the eastern Kharkov region. “The special military operation plan does not require changes,” he told a news conference after the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in the historic Uzbek city of Samarkand.
September 20: The parliaments of the self-proclaimed people’s republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, recognized by the Kremlin last February, call a referendum on integration with Russia from September 23 to 27.
September 21: Putin announces a “partial mobilization” in a television address to the nation, accusing the West of seeking Russia’s destruction.
Source: Eitb
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