Overview
- Ukraine announced on Tuesday that its Defense Intelligence and internal Russian documents show Moscow plans to declare a large mobilisation immediately after this autumn's parliamentary vote.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky said the draft would aim for a rapid call-up of several hundred thousand people by the end of the year and a similar number next year.
- Kyiv has handed unspecified proposals to US negotiators and asked Washington to step up defence aid and diplomatic pressure to stop Russia from expanding the war.
- In response, Ukrainian intelligence and special services have been assigned tasks to disrupt or complicate any Russian mobilisation effort.
- Russia has publicly downplayed the need for a new draft and its Supreme Court has barred the liberal Yabloko party from the ballot, which Ukraine says is part of an effort to manufacture domestic support for the war and the planned mobilisation.