Russian officials launched a new effort to recruit Ukrainians into the Russian army Saturday as Vladimir Putin’s troop buildup along their shared border intensified. Viktor Vodolatsky, a high-ranking Russian lawmaker, urged civilians in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Donbas region to join up with the Russian military — a shift that would bind the area, controlled by Kremlin-backed rebels since 2014, even closer to Moscow.“If Russian citizens residing in the (territories) want to join the Russian Armed Forces, the Rostov regional military commissariat will register and draft them,” Vodolatsky told Tass, the state news agency.
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