Russia conscripts 150,000 troops as Ukraine says it needs more
Russia has finished drafting 150,000 conscripts into its military, its Defense Ministry as Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned he needs more weaponry.
Russia has finished drafting 150,000 conscripts into its military, its Defense Ministry said Monday, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned he needs more fighter jets and missile defense systems to stop the Kremlin’s renewed battlefront advance.
Zelenskyy, whose forces have scrambled to block the Russian offensive following a six-month delay in American aid, also said he wants to host another international peace summit.
Unlike the June peace summit in the Swiss city of Geneva, this time Zelenskyy invited Russia to attend. “I set a goal that in November we would have a fully ready plan,” he told a news conference in Kyiv. “I think that representatives of Russia should be at the second summit.”
Both countries have come up with different cease-fire plans although Russia’s is little more than a demand for Ukrainian surrender. Both have said each other’s vision is unacceptable.
Meanwhile, the future of Ukrainian military resistance was thrown further into question after former President Donald Trump picked as his running mate Sen. JD Vance, an Ohio Republican staunchly opposed to Washington’s support of Kyiv. Vance has argued that the United States should encourage Ukraine to make a peace deal with Russia, and that Kyiv should be prepared to cede land to its invader.
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