Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday there was no need to conduct an additional call-up of Russian reservists to fight in the so-called “special military operation” in Ukraine at the moment. Putin said of the more than 300,000 Russian reservists who were drafted in what Moscow called a “partial mobilization” in September and October, 150,000 were deployed in the zone of what Moscow calls its “special military operation” in Ukraine.
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