Putin enlists another 147,000 soldiers Kirill: 'It's a holy war' - Europe.com. The spring draft is added to the autumn one of 130,000.

Armed terrorists have meanwhile been blocked in several apartments in residential buildings in Makhachkala and Kaspiysk in the North Caucasus. This is a turning point for the Russian authorities who have so far carefully avoided officially framing the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a war, speaking of a'special operation'