Ilya Novikov, Nadia Savchenko’s lawyer, posts a selfie on Twitter with the imprisoned Ukrainian pilot in a courtroom cell. “Nadia says ‘Hi’ to everyone,” reads the tweet, which her Russian lawyer wrote in Ukrainian.
President Petro Poroshenko will address the UN in a few minutes, according to his spokesman Svyatoslav Tsegolko.
A total of 11,006 people will be recruited into the Ukrainian military during the October-November mobilization campaign, according to a Cabinet of Ministers decree, RFE/RL Ukrainian Service reports.
The document states that 5,206 people will join the Armed Forces, 5,000 will join the National Guard and 800 will join the State Special Transport Service.
Most people will be recruited in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (1,094), while the fewest servicemen will come from Luhansk Oblast (100).
During the six stages of mobilization in Ukraine since the Donbass crisis 210,000 military men have been recruited, according to Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak.
Ukraine continues to push for the abolition of veto powers at the UN: