© AFPAlexander Zakharchenko, the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic.
"In 10 days, we will begin a general mobilization," Alexander Zakharchenko said, according to the semi-official Donetsk News Agency, adding, "We plan to mobilize up to 100,000 people."
On January 20, Ukraine conducted the fourth wave of mobilization of its armed forces since the conflict in eastern regions started. Another two waves are planned for April and June.
According to Ukraine's Minister of Defense Stepan Poltorak, a total of 104,000 Ukrainians will be mobilized throughout 2015.
Forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic have, meanwhile, said they have seized two large ammunition depots and prevented army columns from delivering food and fuel to troops in the town of Debaltseve.
Eduard Basurin, the deputy commander of the self-proclaimed republic's forces, said on Sunday that nearly 60 Ukrainian troops had been killed during recent clashes with pro-Russia forces in the region.
The two mainly Russian-speaking regions of Donetsk and Lugansk in eastern Ukraine have been the scene of deadly clashes between pro-Russia forces and the Ukrainian army since Kiev's military operation started in April 2014, in a bid to crush the protests.
Violence intensified in May 2014, after the two flashpoint regions held local referendums in which their residents voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence from Ukraine and joining the Russian Federation.
The fighting has left more than 5,100 people killed and over 1.5 million displaced, the United Nations says.
... in the puzzle of the scripted mass mind.
The article seems almost innocuous, and informative.
What it really is, is subtle propaganda spin. Don't think that Press TV isn't polluted by high level thought management.
This article can come across in one of two ways.
To those who think that the Novorussians have a right to defend themselves against the western-based coup fascists in Kiev, it comes off as informative and gives a little bit of that small victory feeling, "Hah! That's what happens when the entire population believes in its cause and free people go to fight for their lives and livelihoods against fascist, psychotic kleptocratic western puppets and their goons." As such it passes as real information to most news consumers, critics and skeptics.
To those that believe the tripe about Russia annexing Crimea, Russia expanding because they're just evil aggressors, this article is yet another little reference that can be used to cite Russian aggression. Keep calling the people defending their homes "Pro-Russian" and you bury deep in the psyche the conflation of former Eastern Ukrainian citizens with supposed Russian imperial expansion. You could fill a dumpster with articles like this written around the world, each chipping away at your definitions of the struggle. Now they're amassing a 100,000 strong army. Take a page from the psychopath's playbook and accuse them of doing exactly what the west is doing -- say that it's effectively a Russian army and call them conquerors wishing the Soviet Union back and attacking Ukraine as it tries to civilize and join Europe, when in fact that's exactly what Kiev's puppets are for the west.
We'll see if the MSM makes a big deal of the mobilization or not.
It's coming to a head. Something's gonna crack soon, Kiev/the CIA is gonna have to pull off something they've been hiding up their sleeve soon, or Kiev will fall. The writing is on the wall. I'm worried what they'll do now that the situation is desperate. It's possible they'll let it fall and manage it again, turn it to their advantage like parasites, shock doctrine style.