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Ukraine's president said on Sunday that Russia's hasty mobilization of hundreds of thousands of recruits to stem devastating losses in Ukraine is a tacit admission that its "army is not able to fight." This came as divisions in Europe over whether to accept or reject Russians fleeing the call-up grew more pronounced.
The Kremlin is trying to increase pressure on Ukraine and its Western supporters as the winter grows colder, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy indicated he expects more Russian attacks on Ukraine's electrical infrastructure when speaking to American channel CBS. This winter "will be really severe," Zelenskyy foresaw.
"They're going to fire missiles at our electrical infrastructure. We are not frightened of this task, he declared on "Face the Nation."
The first such call-up by Russia since World War II, he characterized as a display of weakness rather than strength, saying: "They confessed that their army is not able to combat with Ukraine longer." Zelenskyy added that the US has given Ukraine NASAMS air defense systems. Incoming missiles or aircraft are tracked and destroyed by NASAMS using surface-to-air missiles. Zelenskyy omitted to mention the quantity Ukraine received. There are disagreements among European officials about whether Russian men fleeing military service should be given safe haven, despite the fact that the European Union is now largely off limits to the majority of Russians due to the suspension of direct flights and the closing of its land borders to them.
Russian protests are also being sparked by the partial mobilization, with additional anti-war rallies planned for Sunday.
According to Russian media, police in Dagestan, one of Russia's poorest North Caucasus provinces, fired warning shots to attempt to disperse more than 100 protesters who had blocked a roadway and were opposing Russian President Vladimir Putin's military call-up.
On Sunday, hundreds of women yelled "No to war!" in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan. Videos of the demonstrations showed women wearing head scarves running police away from the protest and putting themselves in front of police cars transporting protestors who were being held while demanding their release. According to recordings released by Russian media, women also demonstrated in the Siberian city of Yakutsk while yelling "No to genocide!" and walked in a circle around police. The latter pulled some of the demonstrators away or forced them into police vans. Over the past several days, similar protests in Russia have resulted in at least 2,000 arrests. Many of those who were taken away right away got a call-up summons.
Unverified allegations in the Russian media that the Kremlin may soon ban males of fighting age from entering Russia are spreading fear and driving more people to escape.
Zelenskyy renewed his appeal on Russians to resist the mobilization in his evening speech on Sunday, calling it "criminal."
Zelenskyy briefly switched to Russian, saying, "Fight so that they don't send your children to die, all of those who they may take in this wicked Russian mobilization. We won't let you go alive, I'll tell you as a parent, if you come to take the lives of our children. German authorities have called for a European-wide solution and expressed a wish to assist Russian soldiers who are deserting their military duty. German officials have expressed the potential of offering refuge to evacuees and conscription resisters.
Senators in France are saying that Europe has a responsibility to assist and cautioning that refusing to provide asylum to Russians who are fleeing their country might aid Putin by supporting his claim that the West is hostile to Russia.
More than 40 French senators declared, "Closing our borders would fit neither with our ideals nor our interests."
However, some EU nations are convinced that Russian men leaving at this time, when the war is in its ninth month, should not be granted refuge. One of them is Lithuania, which abuts the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad in the Baltic Sea. Russians should remain and fight, the country's foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis wrote on Twitter. opposed to Putin His Latvian colleague stated that the flight posed "serious security dangers" for the 27-nation bloc and that individuals departing now cannot be regarded as conscientious objectors because they did not act when Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
Many "were happy with murdering Ukrainians, they did not complain then," tweeted Edgars Rinkevics, the foreign minister of Latvia. They still have "plenty of countries outside the EU to go," he continued.
Additionally, Finland said that it will "seriously restrict" the number of Russians allowed to join the EU across its border with Russia. Petteri Orpo, a leader of the Finnish opposition, declared that departing Russian military reservists posed a "obvious" security concern and that "our national security must come first."
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