Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Мобилизация в России (с 2022)" in Russian language version.
Ukraine and its allies have dismissed the referendums as a sham designed to justify an escalation of the war and a mobilization drive by Moscow after recent battlefield losses.
In a post on social media, Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's former president and current deputy secretary of the Kremlin's security council, insisted the votes would give Moscow the right to mobilize additional forces.
"Encroachment onto Russian territory is a crime which allows you to use all the forces of self defense," Medvedev said in a post on Telegram.
Observers saw the moves as an attempt to give quasi-legal backing to expand a military campaign that the Kremlin has forbidden Russians to call a war.
The move "formally gives Putin the right and, as it were, moral justification, to rechristen the special operation as a war and move towards mobilization and hitting Ukrainian targets, that were previously left untouched, and even abstractly threaten nuclear war," writes Alexander Baunov, a Russian analyst with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
In a post on social media, Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's former president and current deputy secretary of the Kremlin's security council, insisted the votes would give Moscow the right to mobilize additional forces.
"Encroachment onto Russian territory is a crime which allows you to use all the forces of self defense," Medvedev said in a post on Telegram.
Observers saw the moves as an attempt to give quasi-legal backing to expand a military campaign that the Kremlin has forbidden Russians to call a war.
The move "formally gives Putin the right and, as it were, moral justification, to rechristen the special operation as a war and move towards mobilization and hitting Ukrainian targets, that were previously left untouched, and even abstractly threaten nuclear war," writes Alexander Baunov, a Russian analyst with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Ukraine and its allies have dismissed the referendums as a sham designed to justify an escalation of the war and a mobilization drive by Moscow after recent battlefield losses.
