7:45 am: Welcome everyone, the situation is getting a little more tense, the pro-Russian leader of Donetsk proclaims general mobilization
At 7 a.m. this morning (Paris time), the pro-Russian separatist leader of the Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin announced that he had signed a “general mobilization decree”,
“I call on my fellow reservists to report to the military conscription offices. Today I signed the general mobilization decree,” Denis Pouchiline announced in a video statement. The announcement comes as observers have reported a “dramatic increase” in frontline violence between the Ukrainian military and Russian-backed separatists.
