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Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has urged regional governors to prepare plans for mobilizing the national economy in case of a full-scale war in Ukraine.

“Unfortunately, not all regions have treated this issue carefully enough. I demand that each region provide the final plan of mobilization of the national economy against the possibility that we will have to switch to a war footing,” the prime minister said, during a conference call with the heads of regional state administrations in Kyiv on Jan. 23.