In a significant move, the Ukraine security council on Wednesday approved the plan to declare a state of national emergency, according to news agency AFP. The state of emergency would last 30 days and can be extended for another 30 days.
In this regard, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has issued an order to mobilise reservists amid heightened Ukraine-Russia tensions after Russia instructed its forces to prepare to control rebel-held territories in the country’s east.
According to the new instruction, reservists between the ages of 18 and 60 will be called up beginning today and must serve for a year. Ukraine’s reserve force of over 200,000 people is largely made up of military soldiers who fought during the country’s eight-year conflict with Russian-backed rebels.
The decision to mobilise reservists came after Russia’s upper house, the Federation Council unanimously approved President Vladimir Putin’s deployment of “peacekeepers” to two breakaway Ukrainian regions now recognised as autonomous by Moscow and perhaps other parts of Ukraine.
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