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The Russian Federation plans to strengthen the defence of Crimea with residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as military personnel.
Source: Chief Intelligence Directorate, information provided by the press service of the Ministry of Defence
Details: According to intelligence, the military commissariats of Moscow and Leningrad oblasts, which include the both capital of the Russian Federation and St. Petersburg, received instructions regarding the mass conscription of local residents.
According to Ukrainian intelligence, military units stationed in Crimea will be staffed with Moscow and St. Petersburg residents called up during the covert mobilisation.
In order to supplement military units of the Russian Armed Forces stationed in temporarily occupied Crimea and strengthen the defence of the Crimean Peninsula, Aleksandr Dvornikov, Army General and commander of the Southern Military District, intends to send 1,200 conscripts to Crimea.