Putin claims over 200,000 mobilized, has no regrets over Ukraine
Putin said that 222,000 out of the planned 300,000 had already been successfully mobilized, and there were no proposals from the Ministry of Defense to increase the number beyond the initial 300,000.
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a ceremony to declare the annexation of the Russian-controlled territories of four Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, after holding what Russian authorities called referendums in the occupied areas of Ukraine that w(photo credit: REUTERS)ByROMAN MEITAV