Vladimir Putin has announced “partial mobilisation” ahead of heavily stage-managed votes in four occupied regions of Ukraine to join Russia.
In a televised address to the nation on Wednesday, the Russian president said Russia’s armed forces would call up its reserves immediately to support its invasion of Ukraine.
Putin said Moscow would back the votes to join Russia in the parts of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions that are currently under its control.
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