Category: reservists

Russia Announces Completion of Call-Up for Ukraine

FRONTLINES NORTH OF KHERSON, Ukraine—Russia announced on Friday it was finished calling up reservists to fight in Ukraine, having drafted 300,000 people in a month, with more than a quarter of them already sent to the battlefield. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu was shown on state television informing President Vladimir Putin that 82,000 reservists were now…


Russia Calls Up 300,000 Reservists, Says 6,000 Soldiers Killed in Ukraine

LONDON—Russia will draft 300,000 reservists to support its military campaign in Ukraine, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday in televised remarks. In Moscow’s first update on casualty numbers in almost six months, Shoigu said 5,937 Russian soldiers had been killed since the start of the conflict. President Vladimir Putin had ordered Russia’s first mobilisation…