Russia says call-up of reservists is complete | Ukraine Update

Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are being sent to Ukraine to investigate Russia's claim that Kyiv is planning to use a so-called 'dirty bomb,' ratcheting up nuclear anxieties in the conflict.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he directly ordered his defence minister Sergey Shoi-gu to call top Nato commanders – to warn them Ukraine plans to detonate a low-yield radioactive device.

Kyiv has rejected and condemend the claim. Ukraine says Putin is using nuclear blackmail to block support for its counteroffensive against the Russian forces. And there are fears that Putin may be preparing a "false flag" attack of his own.

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[a-cq]

Stop taking Russian accusations seriously!
You think Ukrainians would ever consider harming their own land like that?
Obviously Russia is yet again trying to blame Ukraine for things Russia is considering as a viable option!

[zenmusic]

They should start their Russian topics with "Everything that Russia says is assumed to be a lie" if they weren't politically correct.

[rickoshay]

The clips of training leave a lot of skepticism. There are Russians going from recruit to KIA in 12 days.

[Sam-nbev]

Calling these young Russian young men " reservists " is incorrect. They're the expendables.

[yabutmaybenot.]

The irony of accusing the country you have invaded of "terrorist" actions.

[marygem]

They say they stopped the conscription, because now is the time when they take in recruits for regular conscriptment. Then next month they could begin remobilizing again.

[takirlenet]

I sincerely thank you for your work! 💯💯

[samirotba]

Cold weather Russians are not used to? Really???

[CleanandSoberNation]

When Putin's mouth is moving . . . He is lying. Good report, DW. Liked the saber rattling reference.

[williamgary]

They have lost half of them already 🤣🤣🤣

[sccur]

I am not sure about all of these interpretations that 300k bodies, even untrained, won't make much of a difference. If you embed them with the now veteran forces on the ground evenly across the occupation, the buddy factor will likely result in unit level training. Especially with the cover of winter to give time for these conscripts to adapt and integrate with their units.

[toughr]

Painful to hear that Ukraine is getting lots of help. It is not getting enough! Not even close. The country can not even fully protect its citizens from those badly made iranian “mopeds” and can not close its skies. No tanks or planes so needed for counteroffensive are coming either. The guy is painfully over optimistic about inefficiency of freshly mobilized russhists too: of course more cannon fodder might make a difference by spring. Stop giving false hope!

[jamesewanchook]

West, keep sending aid, and the latest materiel to end Putin's failed genocide ...Slava Ukraine!!! 🇺🇦🇨🇦

[ricardomadleno]

“Reservists” mobilization is complete so we can now start with the civilians mobilization(already was anyway)

[raymond]

Putler's towns need striking...🇺🇸👏🇺🇦🦸

[stevo]

lol they never recovered from the 90's seems like this will be the final nail in the coffin for russia...

[highgatehandyman]

the trend predicts that they have around 1 year left to live

[fatty]

Really...it generally takes 6 months plus to train a professional soldier and he's managed to amass huge army of draftees in under a month.

[skankhunt]

Hello sir. Is it possible to acquire such gear such as hand grenades seen in the video here in Europe? Thanks.

[karl]

Everyone is an expert when speaking on the newscast.

But no one has a damn clue or an answer to stop this!