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Kremlin denies that mobilisation decree allows a million to be enlisted

FILE PHOTO: A general view of the bridge over Narva river at the border crossing point with Russia in Narva, Estonia September 18, 2022. REUTERS/Janis Laizans

The Kremlin on Thursday denied a report by the independent Novaya Gazeta Europe that an undisclosed clause in President Vladimir Putin's decree on partial mobilisation provided for one million reservists to be enlisted to fight in Ukraine.

The state-owned news agency RIA cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as calling the report "a lie".

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