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Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a video speech on September 22
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Russia after Putin's partial mobilization: "We are not meat!"
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Men are collected nationwide and sent to the front.
Many Russians react not with patriotic enthusiasm, but with resentment - or even resistance.
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Attacks on civilian targets - Warring parties blame each other
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According to the Ukrainian military, Russian forces have carried out dozens of rocket and air attacks on civilian and military targets within 24 hours.
Among other things, 35 settlements were affected.
The Russian state news agency RIA, in turn, previously reported, citing unidentified informants, that Ukrainian troops had fired on granaries and fertilizer warehouses.
Neither the information provided by one side nor the other could be independently verified.
Selenskyj calls on Russian soldiers to desert
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appealed to the Russian soldiers to surrender.
Russian President Vladimir Putin "knowingly sends citizens" "to their deaths," Zelensky said in his daily speech on Saturday evening.
"You will be treated in a civilized manner, no one will know the circumstances of your task," Zelenskyi said in Russian to the members of the Russian army.
Zelenskyy said it was "better to refuse a draft than to die in a criminal war in another country."
It is also "better to run away from a criminal mobilization than to become a cripple and then be held accountable in court for taking part in a war of aggression."
After all, it is "better to surrender to the Ukrainian army than to be killed in the attacks of our weapons - in reasonable attacks of Ukraine, which is defending itself in this war".
The Russian Defense Ministry announced on Saturday that it was replacing former Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov.
His successor is to be General Mikhail Mizinzew, who will be responsible for "the material and technical supply of the armed forces" in the future.
Most recently, Moscow's mission in Ukraine revealed far-reaching logistical problems.
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