Putin told reporters after attending a summit in Kazakhstan on Friday that 222,000 reservists have been mobilized. Russian President Vladimir Putin reckons a mobilization of army reservists he ordered last month to bolster his country’s deployment in Ukraine will to be completed in two weeks. Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to retaliate harshly if Ukraine or its allies strike Russian territory, including the annexed regions of Ukraine. Regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov and other Russian officials said Friday the shelling blew up an ammunition depot, hit a multi-story residential building and knocked out power to a handful of villages. MOSCOW - Russian officials say Ukrainian forces have shelled the Belgorod region of Russia, which lies across the border from Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine. Follow all AP stories on the war in Ukraine at Orphan watched dad die, awaits future in Ukraine shelter How Moscow grabs Ukrainian kids and makes them Russians What’s the state of Russia’s missile arsenal? Russian man stopped with drones in Norway Russia to evacuate Kherson residents as Ukraine advances Turkey, Russia to act on Putin’s gas hub offer Putin: Call-up of Russian reservists to finish soon deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said Friday: “We still need to have the appropriate security guarantees in place for them to be able to go about their work.” fact-finding mission on the July explosion, but U.N. Russia and Ukraine agreed in early August to a U.N. Watson said that “our teams are ready on the ground and have been ready for months to visit the Olenivka penal facility and any other facility where POWs are held” but that requires 'practical arrangements to materialize on the ground.” Olenivka was the scene of a deadly explosion in July, for which Russia and Ukraine blamed each other.

On Thursday, the head of the Ukrainian president’s office, Andriy Yermak, said Kyiv was giving the ICRC three days to send a mission to the Olenivka penal colony, located in a Russian-run part of the Donetsk region, where many Ukrainian POWs are held. “We have been able to visit hundreds of POWs on both sides,” ICRC spokesman Ewan Watson said, “but there are thousands more who we have not been able to see.” The ICRC said earlier Friday it shares “frustration” about incomplete access to prisoners amid Russia’s war in Ukraine but noted there are limits on what it can do.

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