China News Agency, Moscow, September 21 (Reporter Tian Bing) Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a national televised speech on the 21st that he had signed a partial mobilization order and started it on the same day.

FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin.

　　According to the Kremlin website, Putin said that only Russian citizens who are currently in reserve service, first of all citizens who have served in the military, and those with certain military expertise and related experience will be drafted into the army.

Conscripts will receive additional military training.

In addition, the partial mobilization order stipulates supplementary measures for defense orders. The heads of defense industrial enterprises are directly responsible for solving tasks such as increasing the production and deployment of weapons and equipment, and the government must immediately solve all material, resource and financial support for defense enterprises.

　　The mobilization order will be formally notified in writing to the Russian Federation Council and the State Duma (the upper and lower houses of parliament).

　　Putin pointed out that the goal of the West is to weaken, divide and ultimately destroy Russia.

"They have bluntly said that in 1991 they were able to split the Soviet Union, and now it is their turn to split Russia into many regions and states that are hostile to each other." The West has been planning this for a long time. They have encouraged international terrorist groups in the Caucasus and pushed NATO on the Russian border. Deploy offensive infrastructure around the perimeter.

They use "Russophobia" as a weapon, including cultivating hatred against Russia for decades, mainly building an anti-Russian bridgehead in Ukraine, and the Ukrainian people are also used as cannon fodder and pushed into war.

　　Putin stressed that it is absolutely necessary and the only feasible decision to make a pre-emptive decision on the special military operation against Ukraine.

Its main goal is to "liberate" the whole of Donbas, and this goal will not change.

　　Putin said that after the start of the special military operation, the Uzbek side had given positive feedback to the proposals put forward by the Russian side, but a peaceful solution was not in the interest of the West, and the Ukrainian side interrupted the process of reaching an agreement with the Russian side under the instigation of the West. .

　　Putin said he would support Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporozhye and most residents of the Kherson region "to make decisions about their future".

The above-mentioned regions announced that a referendum will be held from September 23 to 27.

　　Putin said that the Russian army has formed a front line of more than 1,000 kilometers during the Ukrainian military operation. They have to face not only the Ukrainian army, but actually the entire Western military machine.

In this case, he believes that it is necessary to make a decision that is sufficient to deal with the threat, that is, in order to protect the country, sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to guarantee the safety of the Russian people and the people of the "liberated areas", it is necessary to support the proposals put forward by the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff Proposal for local mobilization in the Russian Federation.

　　Putin stressed that the West has crossed all boundaries in its aggressive anti-Russian policy.

If Russia's territorial integrity is threatened, it will do everything at its disposal to protect Russia and its people.

"It's not a bluff."

　　Russian Defense Minister Shoigu ordered the implementation of the President's partial mobilization order on the 21st.

He said earlier in the day that Russia lost 5,937 people in the special military operation against Ukraine, and that 300,000 reservists will be recruited during the partial mobilization.

He also said that Russia has mobilized resources of 25 million people.

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