Ukrinform
January 12, 2015
Ukraine’s General Staff to mobilize 50 thousand reservists more
(Reuters)
KYIV: The average rate of fourth mobilization round will be 2.5% of total reservists listed in military records, and the total number of mobilized Ukrainian reservists may amount to about 50 thousand persons.
First Deputy Chief of the defence planning and mobilization department at the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Major-General Volodymyr Talalay announced the news at a press conference held at Ukrinform news agency on Tuesday. “The exact number of personnel to be to mobilized is the information that is not subject to disclosure. The estimated amount is about 50 thousand reservists,” he said.
According to him, the necessity of the fifth, sixth or subsequent rounds of mobilization will depend solely on the military-political and military-strategic situations in the country.
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National Radio Company of Ukraine
January 13, 2015
Poroshenko to submit to Ukrainian parliament bills on mobilization, National Guard this week
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko intends to submit to the Verkhovna Rada bills on mobilization and the National Guard this week, Serhiy Pashynsky, a member of the People’s Front faction of the Ukrainian parliament, said in the parliament on January 12.
Calling on all colleagues to back the bills, Pashynsky said: “No one without exception, including parliamentarians, should be immune from mobilization.” Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak earlier said another wave of mobilization will begin on January 20 and will last ninety days (until April). The number of people called up for military service will reach 50,000.
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Ukrinform
January 12, 2015
Ukrainian forces under heavier shelling, 84 episodes in past 24 hours
KYIV: Our Ukrainian forces positions were shelled 84 times in the last 24 hours as gunmen’s armed groups had been escalating the number and intensity of their attacks on our troops and the residential areas of Donbas. Eleven residential areas and Ukrainian military positions near those villages were hit by the terrorists, anti-terrorist operation press center reports.
“The gunmen groups have fired from heavy weapons as in the past days. The most intensive fighting goes on at the Donetsk airport and in the residential areas surrounding it. Weather tower at Donetsk airport along with residential areas in Krasnohorivka, Nevelske, Opytne, Pisky and Tonenke were hit 12 times by Grad multiple launcher missiles,” the reports says.
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