The Kremlin has claimed to have officially incorporated the temporarily occupied parts of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions into Russia’s Southern Military District, a move which would allow Moscow to expand forced conscription in those places.
Russia-occupied Crimea has already been included in this district, according to Ukraine’s Centre for Countering Disinformation.
“The Kremlin is intensifying its repressive mobilisation policy, laying the groundwork for further illegal conscription of Ukrainians in the temporary occupied territories to compensate for its own military losses”, the centre stated.
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