Calling up 300,000 reservists to take up arms also means that the Russian army’s losses in Ukraine to date have been very severe.
The mobilisation also indicates that the Russian leadership chooses not to care about the lives of its citizens for the sake of continuing its policy of war against its neighbours, sending increasingly more troops to be destroyed in the battlefield and bringing grief to thousands of homes.
Additionally, the mobilisation shows that Putin does not wish to end the war, but continue it at all costs.
This is the reason why the suppressed Russian civil society replaced the word ‘mobilisation’ with ‘mogilisation’. ‘Mogila’ means ‘grave’ in Russian.
The tens of thousands of graves in Ukraine and Russia caused by the war of aggression started by Putin will forever serve as a condemnation for those who ordered this war, but also those who supported it.
Democratic Europe, the democratic world will not be fooled by false referendums held in territories occupied in Ukraine or intimidated by the partial mobilisation in Russia. We will continue to stand with Ukraine and our goal is to make the price of war to the aggressor so high that they have to end it.
Russia’s decision to declare mobilisation is not currently an immediate threat to Estonia. However, Russia, who uses violence and aggression even in the 21st century to dictate its neighbours their foreign and domestic policy choices and attacks their territorial integrity with a war is a threat to the whole world.
