{
  "id": 2805469,
  "title": "Putin wants to draft 300,000 new troops for war, Ukraine’s Zelensky says",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/putin-wants-to-draft-300-000-new-troops-for-war-ukraines-zelensky-says",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-23T14:14:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
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    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3364985/putin-wants-draft-300000-new-troops-war-ukraines-zelensky-says"
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  "summary": "Ukraine thinks Russia is planning to draft an additional 300,000 troops for its war effort after Russian parliamentary elections in mid-September, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. Moscow’s forces are pressing ahead with an effort to capture the rest of eastern Ukraine’s industrialised Donbas region, where its troops have ground forward at what Kyiv says is a great cost. In…",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/zelensky-says-wartime-elections-would-split-ukraine",
        "published": "2026-08-23T08:17:17.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Ukrinform - Politics",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/ukraine-continues-talks-on-using-starlink-in-russia-for-long-range",
        "published": "2026-08-23T08:45:00.000Z"
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        "outlet": "ERR News Estonia",
        "title": "Prime minister in Kyiv: Russia shouldn't count on us tiring of Ukraine support",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/prime-minister-in-kyiv-russia-shouldnt-count-on-us-tiring-of-ukraine",
        "published": "2026-08-23T08:50:00.000Z"
      },
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        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "Zelensky rejects wartime elections, says would ‘split’ Ukraine",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/zelensky-rejects-wartime-elections-says-would-split-ukraine",
        "published": "2026-08-23T09:00:09.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "France 24",
        "title": "Ukraine: Zelensky asks for more Patriot interceptors as civilian deaths hit highest level since 2022",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/ukraine-zelensky-asks-for-more-patriot-interceptors-as-civilian",
        "published": "2026-08-23T09:05:59.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Kyiv Independent",
        "title": "'Hunting their launch sites' — Zelensky reveals new details about Ukraine's ballistic missile defense",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/hunting-their-launch-sites-zelensky-reveals-new-details-about",
        "published": "2026-08-23T11:11:47.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Egypt Independent",
        "title": "Russia likely to mobilize at least 300,000 more troops to Ukraine war, Zelensky warns",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/23/russia-likely-to-mobilize-at-least-300-000-more-troops-to-ukraine-war",
        "published": "2026-08-23T12:57:47.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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