Cover image: Russian law enforcement officers detain a person during a rally, after opposition activists called for street protests against the mobilization of reservists ordered by President Vladimir Putin, in Moscow September 24, 2022 . REUTERS PHOTOGRAPHER / REUTERS
- Russian authorities arrested at least 796 people in 33 cities on Saturday, nearly half of them in Moscow, during protests against the mobilization of reservists to fight in Ukraine, decreed this week by President Vladimir Putin, reported OVD-Info, an NGO specializing in counting arrests.
- Moscow also tightened, on Saturday, the penalties incurred by deserters. Vladimir Putin has signed amendments providing for up to ten years in prison for soldiers who desert or refuse to fight. The Russian president also signed a law that facilitates access to Russian citizenship for foreigners who enlist for at least a year in the army, at a time when Moscow is trying by all means to recruit more men to fight in Ukraine.
- In a direct address to Russian citizens on Saturday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared in their language that “Russian power understands perfectly well that it is sending its citizens to their deaths”, calling on Moscow’s forces to surrender.
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday denounced a “official russophobia” from the West ” unprecedented “. “Its magnitude is grotesque”he said at the General Assembly of the United Nartons, also accusing the United States of taking “almost for an envoy of God on Earth”.
- At the dawn of the eighth month of war in Ukraine, Moscow announced on Saturday that it had replaced its head of military logistics, a weak point in its offensive in Ukraine.. General Dmitry Bulgakov, deputy defense minister, was transferred to a “other position” and replaced by Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, who until then headed the National Defense Control Center.
- Russia continues with annexation ‘referendums’launched on Friday in four regions of Ukraine under its full or partial control, despite new threats of Western sanctions.
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