Ukraine continues to push for the abolition of veto powers at the UN:
A total of 11,006 people will be recruited into the Ukrainian military during the October-November mobilization campaign, according to a Cabinet of Ministers decree, RFE/RL Ukrainian Service reports.
The document states that 5,206 people will join the Armed Forces, 5,000 will join the National Guard and 800 will join the State Special Transport Service.
Most people will be recruited in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (1,094), while the fewest servicemen will come from Luhansk Oblast (100).
During the six stages of mobilization in Ukraine since the Donbass crisis 210,000 military men have been recruited, according to Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak.
President Petro Poroshenko will address the UN in a few minutes, according to his spokesman Svyatoslav Tsegolko.
Ilya Novikov, Nadia Savchenko’s lawyer, posts a selfie on Twitter with the imprisoned Ukrainian pilot in a courtroom cell. “Nadia says ‘Hi’ to everyone,” reads the tweet, which her Russian lawyer wrote in Ukrainian.
One of Nadia Savchenko’s lawyers, Ilya Novikov, said that testimonies of victims in her case seem suspiciously similar to one another.
“We so far have had time to question two victims. We see that, I’m telling you in secret, their testimonies are copied. Dmitriyeva … we see that her testimony is exactly like the testimony of her daughter. This doesn’t happen. Moreover, the testimonies are of the type that the ‘Kyiv junta’ seized power,” said Novikov, according to the RFE/RL Ukrainian Service.
Moscow has frequently dismissed Ukraine’s post-Maidan government as a “junta.”
The Russian Donetsk court finished questioning Savchenko today and began questioning victims in the case.