19 December 2023 at 17:30 The Ukrainian military requests the mobilization of almost 500,000 The Ukrainian military has requested the mobilization of an additional 450,000 to 500,000 people into the army, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi. A final decision has not yet been made, Zelenskyj points out at a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday, according to the Reuters news agency. According to the plan, the defense leadership and the government will discuss “this very sensitive matter of mobilisation”, before the matter ends up on the National Assembly’s table, the president says. Zelenskyj further points out that a mobilization of such a scale will require additional funding. (NTB)
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