re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.

Russia mobilises more than 46,000 Ukrainians from temporarily occupied territories

VALENTYNA ROMANENKO — 18 November, 14:04

Russia has forcibly mobilised 46,327 Ukrainians from the temporarily occupied territories.

Source: Dmytro Usov, Secretary of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, speaking at the Third International Conference Crimea Global, as quoted by Ukrinform

Quote: "We have established that 46,327 of our citizens have been forcibly mobilised from the occupied territories, including annexed Crimea. These people are fighting against us."

Details: According to the Coordination Headquarters, the Russians mobilised 5,368 Ukrainians in Donetsk Oblast, 4,650 in Luhansk Oblast, 560 in Zaporizhzhia Oblast and 478 in Kherson Oblast. In Crimea, 35,272 people were mobilised, and a further 5,368 in Sevastopol.

These mobilisation data cover the period from February 2022 to July 2025. They were obtained by Ukrainian military intelligence and confirmed by the Russian side, Usov noted.

He stated that 16% of prisoners held in Ukrainian POW camps are Ukrainian citizens, 6% of whom are Crimeans.

Usov also reported that draft legislative amendments are expected to be submitted to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament), which would stipulate the exchange of Ukrainians from the temporarily occupied territories during prisoner swaps.

"We must take the right decision when the Russian side requests their exchange, because we are effectively exchanging Ukrainians for Ukrainians. We must do everything to ensure they do not come to the Russian Federation but remain in Ukraine," Usov stressed.

He added that regarding some Ukrainians currently held in captivity on Ukrainian territory, domestic courts have already issued acquittals. "And we are waiting for them to be released from the camps," Usov said.

Ukrainska Pravda

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Exactly what my well connected Russian friend

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Exactly what my well connected Russian friend said in 2022 about the Russian economy. His degree from University of Moscow was in Political Economics. He is a former director of finance for Gazprom who has been living in Houston for over 15 years since leaving Gazprom in 2007.

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Looking thru records, Gazprom never had a “director of finance” title. What are we missing?

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Russia mobilises more than 46,000 Ukrainians from temporarily occupied territories

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That could be a shaky foundation in an army.

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Per ISW, Russian forces now operating inside of Siversk. Significant development.

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Trends....

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Retail is leaving Russia

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This is huge because retail is the largest employer in all of Russia.

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The implications of this may be even bigger than the actual deal itself.

You're not going to sell a country your most important weapon systems unless you think are going to be on your side and capable of protecting it. If France thought that Russia had a chance to capture their most state-of-the-art fighter jet, or that the Ukraine isn't even going to exist, then they wouldn't dare consider this. Yet here they are, agreeing to sell them not old warplanes but ones that haven't even been built yet - the implications of this are, well

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Or they are making a deal they know they will likely never have to follow through with anyway. Even if Ukraine were to push Russia out of their territory completely they are a country looking down the barrel of major population collapse while also having to rebuild.

As for the military implications, Ukraine already has issues stemmed from having too many different plane platforms that are maintained and flown differently from each other. This isn't going to help that even if the planes are wildly effective. We are talking an average of 10 per year for 10 years and I would be shocked if that wasn't highly backloaded, .

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No schedule was provided for the delivery of the first Rafales.

A French government official said training a Rafale pilot takes at least three years.

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Call me crazy but I don't think it's a good idea to come to a formal agreement with a country over the delivery of tens of billions of dollars of state-of-the-art military equipment when you don't have the intent of delivery. I don't think it's good not only for the other country but also your own with the political, economic, social, and other factors that are going to be built around everything from the jobs they create to the security it's supposed to guarantee. That sounds ridiculous to me, but, hey, Russia and China go about business like this so maybe it is possible. Stupid, but possible.

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They can intend to follow through. But its possible it never gets to that point, and France has to know that. This is an order, not a gift. If Ukraine can't pay for whatever reason......