INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that the threat of nuclear conflict in Ukraine was still on the rise, but stressed that
process," Putin nevertheless praised Moscow's territorial gains, calling the regions the Kremlin claims to have annexed from Ukraine a
"significant result" of the military campaign.Putin also said that half the Russians who were called up for military service in September
our men, defenders of the fatherland, 150,000 are in the area of operations," he said, adding that some 77,000 of those were in combat
units.The Russian authorities ordered the mobilization of 300,000 Russian reservists in September to bolster its troop numbers in
of Russian troop deaths in Ukraine
