Lugansk People’s Republic Head Leonid Pasechnik has said that the mobilization decree remains effective in the Republic but that new conscription is not needed at present.
“We have enough forces now,” Pasechnik told the Russia 24 news channel. “The mobilization decree remains effective in the LPR, and if we don’t have enough servicemen, we’ll conscript more, but right now we don’t need it.”
Earlier, the LPR Head called on his fellow countrymen capable of holding a weapon to arrive at military commissariats and stand up for the Republic.
Under the general mobilization decree, men aged 18 to 55 are conscripted for military service. The document bans this age group from leaving the Republic.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in Donbass to protect residents of the region from Ukrainian aggression and called on Ukrainian troops to leave the combat zone. Earlier, the Heads of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, Leonid Pasechnik and Denis Pushilin, requested the Russian president to provide military assistance. LPR militiamen had liberated 54 Kiev-held settlements of the Republic by the morning of March 6.
The Ukrainian government launched the so-called anti-terrorist operation against Donbass in April 2014. The members of the Contact Group have announced ceasefire more than 20 times since the autumn of 2014. Kiev forces regularly violated the truce opening fire with large caliber artillery, mortars and tank guns which were to have been withdrawn from the contact line under the accords. *i*s
