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13Jan15

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Ukraine's General Staff to mobilize 50 thousand reservists more

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The average rate of fourth mobilization round will be 2.5% of total reservists listed in military records, and the total number of mobilized Ukrainian reservists may amount to about 50 thousand persons.

First Deputy Chief of the defence planning and mobilization department at the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Major-General Volodymyr Talalay announced the news at a press conference held at Ukrinform news agency on Tuesday. "The exact number of personnel to be to mobilized is the information that is not subject to disclosure. The estimated amount is about 50 thousand reservists," he said.

According to him, the necessity of the fifth, sixth or subsequent rounds of mobilization will depend solely on the military-political and military-strategic situations in the country.

[Source: Ukrinform, Kyiv, 13Jan15]

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