Russia mobilises residents of temporarily occupied territories

Roman Kravets – Thursday, 3 March 2022, 15:16

Military command of the Russian Federation has conducted a mobilisation of residents in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. It is now forming subdivisions of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps to storm cities and towns in the Ukrainian territory.

Source: Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny on Facebook

Quote: "Most of these people have Russian passports. Now some of our compatriots are being transferred across the Rostov region, Krasnodar region, and the temporarily occupied Crimea to conduct a naval offensive to capture Odessa.

The rest were taken to Belgorod to storm Kyiv in the first echelon as ‘cannon fodder’."

Details: Zaluzhny stressed that this is a war crime and a flagrant violation of the Convention for the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.

Quote: "This is yet another proof of the complete subordination of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the 8th Army of the RF Armed Forces."

Context: On 2 March, the State Border Guard Service reported that in the war against Ukraine, Russia is deploying mobilised people from the temporarily occupied territory of eastern Ukraine on the Crimean front.