Russia’s “partial mobilization”- calling up 300,000 reservists to fight in Ukraine – is complete and won’t be extended.
A recruit takes his weapons following an instructor during a military training at a firing range in Volgograd region, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. (AP Photo)
The call-up, Russia’s first since World War II, shocked many citizens and led more than 350,000 to flee the country amid widespread reports of ineligible candidates being drafted and new troops getting inadequate equipment and poor treatment.
Recruits prepare their weapons as an instructor looks at them during a military training at a firing range in Volgograd region, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. (AP Photo)
Putin on Friday ordered Shoigu to “modernize” Russia’s draft system to ensure such problems aren’t repeated. Shoigu said 218,000 of the mobilized forces are still in training, while the remainder have already been deployed to Ukraine.
Putin to host leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan for talks
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will host the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to help broker a settlement to a longstanding conflict between the two ex-Soviet neighbors, the Kremlin said Friday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) to discuss support for Armenia following clashes on its border with Azerbaijan, via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, Russia, Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Putin’s talks with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will be held at the Russian leader’s Black Sea residence in Sochi on Monday.
FILE – In this May 10, 2021, file photo released by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev speaks to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during their meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan. Hundreds of world leaders, powerful politicians, billionaires, celebrities, religious leaders and drug dealers have been stashing away their investments in mansions, exclusive beachfront property, yachts and other assets for the past quarter century, according to a review of nearly 12 million files obtained from 14 different firms located around the world. The report released Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021 by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists involved 600 journalists from 150 media outlets in 117 countries. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is one of 330 current and former politicians identified as beneficiaries of the secret accounts. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP, File)Armenian acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan speaks to his party colleagues after parliamentary elections in Yerevan, Armenia, Monday, June 21, 2021. Results released Monday showed the party of Pashinyan won the snap parliamentary elections he called to ease anger over a peace deal he signed with Azerbaijan. (Tigran Mehrabyan/PAN Photo via AP)
The Kremlin said the leaders will discuss the implementation of a 2020 peace deal brokered by Russia and “further steps to enhance stability and security in the Caucasus,” adding that “the issues related to the restoration and development of trade and economic and transport links will also be discussed.”
FILE In this file photo taken on Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, Russian military vehicles parked on the road near Seven lake, Armenia, towards the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called the vote after months of mass protests demanding his resignation over his handling of the conflict. A Russia-brokered peace deal signed in November ended six weeks of fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces that killed 6,000 people. (Hayk Baghdasaryan/PHOTOLURE via AP, File)
The ex-Soviet neighbors have been locked in a decades-old conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, which is part of Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended in 1994.
FILE In this file photo taken on Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020, Armenians attend a march of remembrance of the heroes killed during the during the fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020 year, in Yerevan, Armenia. Armenians head to the polls Sunday for a snap parliamentary election stemming from a political crisis that has engulfed the former Soviet nation ever since last year’s fighting over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh. (Tigran Mehrabyan/PAN Photo via AP, File)
During a six-week war in 2020, Azerbaijan reclaimed broad swaths of Nagorno-Karabakh and adjacent territories held by Armenian forces. More than 6,700 people died in the fighting, which ended with a Russian-brokered peace agreement. Moscow deployed about 2,000 troops to the region to serve as peacekeepers.
Armenian national flags wave on the wind at the military cemetery with the graves of the fallen soldiers during the during the fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020 year, outside Yerevan, Armenia. June 16. 2021. Nagorno-Karabakh lies within Azerbaijan but was under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by the government in Yerevan since a separatist war ended in 1994, leaving the region and substantial surrounding territory in Armenian hands. Hostilities flared in late September 2020, and the Azerbaijani military pushed deep into Nagorno-Karabakh and nearby areas in six weeks of fighting involving heavy artillery and drones that killed more than 6,000 people. (AP Photo/Areg Balayan)
A new round of hostilities erupted in September, when more than 200 troops were killed on both sides in two days of heavy fighting. Armenia and Azerbaijan traded blame for triggering the fighting.
FILE In this file photo taken on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020, Medical workers transport a wounded in a hospital during shelling by Azerbaijan’s artillery in Stepanakert, the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. Nagorno-Karabakh officials said Azerbaijani forces hit Stepanakert, the region’s capital, and the nearby town of Shushi with the Smerch long-range multiple rocket systems, killing one civilian and wounding two more. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)
