the Kremlin denies wanting to launch a second wave of mobilization

by time news April 21, 2023

April 21, 2023

2023-04-21 15:00:47

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15h00 : ✳️ New: I’ve arrived at @RamsteinAirBase for the eleventh meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, hosted by United States @SecDef Lloyd Austin. I just announced an additional package of Canadian military aid for Ukraine. ↓ https://t.co/EEaA8UufKO

15h06 : Canada will provide an additional $39 million in weapons and non-lethal military aid to kyiv, announces the Canadian Minister of Defense. This money will be used to buy, among other things, fuel, first aid kits, guns and radio sets.

14h06 : The Kremlin once again denies any intention to launch a second mobilization campaign to send men to Ukraine. “There are no discussions in the Kremlin about any wave of mobilization”, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. He was responding to a question about reports in Russian media about university students receiving military conscriptions in Moscow and other cities in Russia.

13h33 : “I understood that I would have a quick death or a slow death”told Timur, a Russian prisoner, to the New York Times. The quick death being that on the front in Ukraine, the slow death that of HIV, because his treatment in prison was not adequate. “I chose a quick death”he concluded.

13h26 : About 20% of Russian soldiers recruited in prison are said to be HIV-positive, Ukrainian authorities told the New York Times. This estimate comes from the infection rate among captured Russian soldiers.

13h06 : French Transport Minister Clément Beaune has arrived in Odessa. The Minister confirms that France will deliver 25,000 tons of rails for the reconstruction of 150 km of railway tracks, destroyed in the west of the country, according to Paul Barcelona, our journalist on site.

10h18 : The Ukrainian Air Force announces that it has shot down eight of the 12 Iranian-made Shahed drones that Russia launched overnight. The attack, which was aimed in particular at kyiv, caused no casualties. Follow our live.

10h17 : The Ukrainian Air Force announces that it has shot down eight of the 12 Iranian-made Shahed drones that Russia launched overnight. The attack, which was aimed in particular at kyiv, caused no casualties. Follow our live.

08h05 : Farmers regularly find weapons in the fields. Across the country, emergency service units secured cities first, before farmlands. At the “Epi d’or” cooperative in Mykolaiv, none of the 97 workers was injured. “But they were scared, yes. They sometimes said to themselves: ‘What if the deminers forgot something?’

08h02 : “I think about the danger all the time. If I’m not afraid anymore, the worst can happen. In the evening, I try to forget about work, especially since my wife is pregnant.”

The deminers progress in groups of two, on each side of the canal. The first man walks the search head ten centimeters above the ground, from left to right. The second, equipped with a long stick, pokes the earth at 45 degrees, when it is necessary to identify a threat more precisely.