The Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenski, He said at a press conference that he can assure that ““Russia is preparing to mobilize an additional 300,000 troops on June 1.”
When asked about the needs of the Ukrainian army in this regard, Zelensky refused to provide specific figures, but assured that throughout this year “we need half a million.”
The Ukrainian president himself, who yesterday ratified a law to reduce the age of mobilization from 27 to 25 years, had said last December that The army commanders had requested the mobilization of 500,000 additional men.
For his part, the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, who was with Zelensky at the press conference in kyiv, refused to speculate on a scenario in which Finland could send troops to Ukraine.
Stubb, who signed an agreement this Wednesday to provide security guarantees to Ukraine for the next ten years, said that «there is no reason for Finland to send troops to Ukraine«.
«“We support Ukraine in every possible way,” the Finnish president assured and explained that right now priority is to provide kyiv with weapons, ammunition and trainingas well as pave the way for it to enter the European Union (EU) and NATO.
Russia denies Zelensky’s statements
For its part, This Wednesday, Russia denied the words of the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, on Moscow’s plans to mobilize more additional soldiers.
«“That’s not true,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov, quoted by the TASS agency.
In September 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin called up 300,000 reservists to fight in Ukraine, causing the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Russians of military age, who emigrated to countries such as Kazakhstan, Georgia and Armenia, and also to other European countries.
Meanwhile, the wives of those mobilized created a movement to demand the return home of their husbands, who have been on the front for more than 1.5 years.
*With information from EFE*
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2024-10-02 16:26:28
