{"id":28660,"date":"2026-08-15T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/28660\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T12:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T12:47:07","slug":"ukrainian-official-warns-men-in-occupied-territories-to-leave-before-russias-state-duma-vote-ukraine-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/28660\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Official Warns Men in Occupied Territories to Leave Before Russia\u2019s State Duma Vote | Ukraine news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:500;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5\">The warning comes as occupation authorities prepare new procedures and thousands of residents are already being placed on Russia\u2019s military register.<\/p>\n<p>Men who remain in Ukraine\u2019s temporarily occupied territories should leave before the so-called elections to the Russian State Duma are held. After that, the occupying authorities may intensify forced mobilization, warned Yuriy Sobolevskyi, First Deputy Chairman of the Kherson Regional Council.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that the Russian occupiers are already preparing mechanisms to conduct mobilization measures in the seized territories.<\/p>\n<p>I want to remind men once again that the clock is ticking, and after the \u201celections,\u201d the risks of large-scale Russian mobilization will be enormous \u2013 they will be trapped. We can see that the occupiers are genuinely preparing to carry out such mobilization.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Yuriy Sobolevskyi<\/p>\n<p>Risk of Mobilization in Occupied Kherson Region<\/p>\n<p>Russia plans to hold elections to the Russian State Duma in the occupied Ukrainian territories in September. In the temporarily seized part of the Kherson region, the occupiers have already registered 2,700 local residents for military service.<\/p>\n<p>Yuriy Sobolevskyi also stated that the Security Service of Ukraine should investigate all Ukrainian citizens who help the occupation administration organize the so-called elections to the Russian State Duma in the temporarily occupied territories.<\/p>\n<p>In his assessment, preparations for military registration and election procedures increase the threat that residents of occupied communities may be forcibly recruited into the Russian army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The warning comes as occupation authorities prepare new procedures and thousands of residents are already being placed on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10251,2339,82,757,10250,10252,10253,10254],"class_list":["post-28660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-forced-mobilization","tag-kherson-region","tag-news","tag-occupied-ukraine","tag-occupied-ukraine-forced-mobilization-kherson-region-russian-elections-state-duma-yurii-sobolevskyi","tag-russian-elections","tag-state-duma","tag-yurii-sobolevskyi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}