Residents in liberated areas not to be mobilized in 2022 - LPR Military Commissar

Residents in the liberated areas of the Lugansk People’s Republic will not be conscripted for military service under mobilization in 2022, LPR Military Commissar Andrey Gubanov said.

“In liberated areas, the LPR has already set up military commissariats that have begun to work,” Gubanov said.“The patriots who wish to join the LPR militia can enroll at military commissariats in liberated areas.”

“Please note that in 2022, the citizens who live in liberated areas of the Lugansk People’s Republic will not be conscripted for military service under mobilization,” he said.

Earlier, LPR Head Leonid Pasechnik called on his fellow countrymen capable of holding weapons to arrive at military commissariats to defend the Republic.

Under the general mobilization decree, men aged 18 to 55 are conscripted for military service. The document bans this age group from leaving the Republic.

On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in Donbass to protect residents of the region from Ukrainian aggression. Earlier, the Heads of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, Leonid Pasechnik and Denis Pushilin, requested the Russian president to provide military assistance. As of now, some 80 percent of the Lugansk People’s Republic territory is liberated from Ukrainian forces.

The Ukrainian government launched the so-called anti-terrorist operation against Donbass in April 2014.  The members of the Contact Group have announced ceasefire more than 20 times since the autumn of 2014. Kiev forces regularly violated the truce opening fire with large caliber artillery, mortars and tank guns which were to have been withdrawn from the contact line under the accords. *i*s