Ukraine Up-date with Alexander Khara & Sergej Sumlenny
Scott and I were joined by Alexander Khara and Sergej Sumlenny as we discussed the events unfolding in Ukraine and Europe in the week of September 26, 2022.
I’ve selected some posts to remind you of the pressing issues at that time. Putin had called for ‘partial mobilisation’ and Russian citizens, escaping military service, began to hit the hills.
4:08 p.m.: Long lines of vehicles were seen at a border crossing between Mongolia and Russia on Sunday as people fled the Kremlin's call-up of hundreds of thousands of reservists for the war in Ukraine, according to Agence France-Presse.
The head of a checkpoint in the town of Altanbulag told AFP that more than 3,000 Russians had entered Mongolia via the crossing since Wednesday, most of them men.
Queues of people holding Russian passports were also seen outside the immigration counter for the border crossing, according to an AFP reporter there.
"From September 21, the number of Russian citizens entering Mongolia has increased," checkpoint head Major G. Byambasuren told AFP. "As of 12:00 (noon) today, more than 3,000 Russian citizens have entered Mongolia."
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday announced Russia's first military call-up of fighting-age men since World War II.
ISW: Key Takeaways
Local military commissars are carrying out mobilization orders in a way that suggests a possible disconnect between MoD Shoigu’s guidelines for partial mobilization and Putin’s demands for haste.
Putin is likely continuing to address systemic issues in Russian senior command by replacing individual senior subordinates.
Ukrainian forces likely continued to make gains along the Kharkiv-Luhansk Oblast border and northwest of Lyman.
Ukrainian military officials indicated that the continued Ukrainian interdiction campaign in southern Ukraine is degrading Russian combat capabilities.
Russian authorities continue to coerce residents of occupied Ukrainian territory into voting in sham referenda.
Sept 27 news
Reuters reported: Russian-installed officials in four occupied regions of Ukraine reported huge majorities of votes in favor of joining Russia as the United States planned a U.N. resolution condemning the sham referendums and Russia remained defiant.
The United States was also preparing a new round of sanctions against Russia should it annex Ukrainian territory and a $1.1 billion arms package for Ukraine.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said the United States and its allies remained committed to European energy security, after Germany, Sweden and Denmark said attacks caused major leaks from two Russian energy pipelines.
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