Russia-Ukraine war: Russian conscripts being sent straight to front, Kyiv says; UK sanctions Russians linked to ‘sham referendums’ – as it happened
Untrained conscripts being sent directly to Ukraine frontline, Kyiv claims; UK announces new package of sanctions. This live blog has now closed
Alex Rossi is the Sky News correspondent in Moscow. He has offered this analysis this morning, saying:
We're now five days into this [mobilisation]. It doesn't seem to really have gone down very well. Bear in mind that Russia, of course, is a very heavily securitised police state where dissent isn't tolerated, but there have been sporadic protests all over the country.
The number of people that they're trying to draft is 300,000. That's almost double the initial invasion force. So it is a reflection of how badly things are going on the battlefield for the Kremlin, and just shows that they have a very significant manpower problem.
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