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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Pavel Polityuk

Ukraine says Russia plans new mobilisation to 'turn tide of war'

Soldiers from Carpathian Sich international battalion conduct manoeuvres near the front line, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kreminna, Ukraine, January 3, 2023. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia was planning to call up more troops for a major new offensive, even as Moscow was facing some of its biggest internal criticism of the war over a strike that killed scores of fresh conscripts.

Kyiv has been saying for weeks that Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to order another mass conscription drive and shut his borders to prevent men from escaping the draft.

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