President Zelenskyy on upcoming mobilization in Russia:

We have solid intelligence reports on Russian plans for the fall. What is not there – in the Russian plans – is peace. Unfortunately. Not yet.

Putin is preparing the conditions for expanding mobilization. The figures for his losses speak for themselves. In less than seven months of this year, 221,000 people have joined the ranks of the Russian armed forces. While the losses of the Russians in the same period amounted to almost 225,500, and of them 131,000 killed, almost 93,000 wounded. A significant number of injuries are serious, because the Russians have totally poor front-line medicine.

Putin is simply preparing to take new Russians to the war. He masks it with other words, signals, but he is preparing. It is important that we and our partners can put enough pressure on Russia so that thoughts about stopping this aggression begin to dominate – thoughts about peace, not about additional Russian mobilization. Our long-range operations, our mid-range strikes contribute to this. More and more Russians are noticing Putin’s war and losing from it and think that the war should not be dragged out. We see this.

We also see Russia’s cooperation with North Korea. Russia wants to receive another 30,000 soldiers from North Korea: since June, preparations have been underway in the Voronezh region to receive them. North Korea is also preparing to transfer new ballistic missile launchers to Russia. This is a threat not only to Ukraine. Russia is helping North Korea learn war, improving their weapons – giving them experience in the real use of weapons. All this is a threat to everyone in Asia who is within the range of North Korean missiles. We will counteract it.