Ukrainian intelligence official says Russia has forcibly mobilized more than 55,000 residents of occupied territories
Since the start of 2022, between 55,000 and 60,000 residents of Ukraine’s occupied territories have been forcibly mobilized into the Russian army, Ukrainian intelligence official Andriy Chernyak said on Monday. “It’s forced mobilization: the occupiers caught people in the streets, or went to the few establishments still operating, and forcibly took people away; they simply put them in uniforms and sent them to the front,” Chernyak said, according to Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate.