'This is not a bluff': Putin mobilises Russia's military and says he will respond to 'nuclear blackmail' if threatened
In a televised address, Mr Putin says he has signed a decree on partial mobilisation and that most people in the Donbas region did not want to return to what he called the "yoke" of Ukraine.
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