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MPs have proposed law to give National Guard greater powers over mobilisation Comes as intelligence claims Russia has suffered 188,000 casualties in Ukraine Western allies pledged billions of dollars worth of weapons for Kyiv last week Russia has quietly dropped a rule exempting fathers of three of more children from mobilisation - amid fears Putin will send another 500,000 conscripts to Ukraine. MPs are understood to have proposed a law that will give the country's National Guard greater powers to impose military draft orders. A second proposal includes allowing property to be confiscated from individuals who flee abroad to avoid...