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Russian soldiers' wives want their men back, posing a rare challenge to Putin and his war in Ukraine
NBC News.com ^ | January 20, 2024 | Yuliya Talmazan

Posted on 01/20/2024 5:18:01 AM PST by Timber Rattler

In a rare challenge to the Kremlin, a growing number of Russian women are fighting to bring home their husbands, brothers and sons who were drafted to fight in Ukraine.

They say the men have served their time on the front lines, 15 months after some 300,000 reservists were called up to bolster Russia’s struggling campaign. But with little sign of President Vladimir Putin scaling back his ambitions, the military is ignoring their pleas and propagandists have sought to villainize those speaking out.

The women’s mounting frustration has bonded them together, providing common cause in their defiant public stand just months before Putin will extend his rule in an election.

NBC News spoke with a number of women who are part of a growing movement calling for their loved ones to be discharged and allowed to return to civilian life. They have emerged as among the few voices in Russia willing to publicly question how the Kremlin is conducting the war, which continues to reshape the country even as it descends into a stalemate.

Asya is one of those who is desperate for her husband to return home.

He was drafted in September 2022, she said, and is still in Ukraine serving in an artillery unit more than a year later.

She said she now fears her husband, who worked as a driver before he was called up, will be stuck there indefinitely.

“You try to dig yourself out of this pit every day and think, ‘How long can this carry on?’” Asya said, speaking on the phone from her home in the Moscow region. “How long can they mock us like this?”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: conscript; mobiki; mtacniks; putin; wives; yuliyatalmazan
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

LOL. Only Russian Solders Wives are angry about War.
YouCrayne Solders Wives are immune to being angry about War.

What a joke of a Thread.


41 posted on 01/20/2024 9:29:44 AM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: Apparatchik

Still living a lie?


42 posted on 01/20/2024 9:51:22 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: canuck_conservative

You should work on freeing Canada.


43 posted on 01/20/2024 9:55:23 AM PST by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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To: JonPreston

Something you want to say to me, Tater?


44 posted on 01/20/2024 10:47:55 AM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: Apparatchik

Hey, Walter Mitty. Who are you pretending to be today?


45 posted on 01/20/2024 11:31:03 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

Keep making your cowardly, lying accusations and insulting me and all the veterans here, you sniveling, Putin loving sissy boy. I don’t mind a bit - it’s another reminder of how sad and unfulfilling your life must truly be. It would be one thing if you actually served, but you didn’t, so you depend on actual men to protect your worthless hide. Pathetic.


46 posted on 01/20/2024 12:17:02 PM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: JonPreston

And I know your vile behavior is just an attempt to get honorable people banned here, so have fun running to the mods, as you have dozens of times before. Pure cowardice.


47 posted on 01/20/2024 12:20:09 PM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: Apparatchik; JonPreston

>And I know your vile behavior is just an attempt to get honorable people banned here, so have fun running to the mods, as you have dozens of times before. Pure cowardice.<

No one knows who reports posts and threads, unless the person doing so, or a mod/administrator discloses that info.

If the poster him/herself didn’t tell you, the only way you would know would be if you had access to inside information.

Either you do, or are again taking through your hat.


48 posted on 01/20/2024 12:49:00 PM PST by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: bimboeruption; JonPreston

I don’t have inside information, but I have seent this tactic of goading and insulting until the recipient of such vile treatment lashes out with an over-the-line comment. Mods don’t monitor every single thread, so it is likely that it is the instigator who reported the abuse. Funny that it happens a lot when Jon is in the mix.


49 posted on 01/20/2024 12:58:49 PM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: bimboeruption; Apparatchik

The more Apparatchik seethes, the more my soul is nourished. He’s as phony as a $3 dollar bill.


50 posted on 01/20/2024 1:01:34 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Apparatchik
it is likely that it is the instigator who reported the abuse. Funny that it happens a lot when Jon is in the mix

Hey MercyFlush, it's you who came at me this morning. Maybe you should go find an easier target?

51 posted on 01/20/2024 1:05:33 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

Note that the Ukrainian women DON’T want their men back, because the Poles have got that covered...


52 posted on 01/20/2024 1:16:36 PM PST by kiryandil (Rocco is roccking again!!)
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To: JonPreston

Hunka of the North is following you around, eh?


53 posted on 01/20/2024 1:17:14 PM PST by kiryandil (Rocco is roccking again!!)
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To: mac_truck
       

Zeeper clowns for the win!

54 posted on 01/20/2024 1:19:57 PM PST by kiryandil (Rocco is roccking again!!)
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To: mac_truck; roving
No Ukrainian vives and girlfriends want their men at home - only Russian wives and girlfriends want their men at home.

The war is over, I guess.

The Putin has lost.  

55 posted on 01/20/2024 1:22:13 PM PST by kiryandil (Rocco is roccking again!!)
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To: Apparatchik; TangoLimaSierra
Unlike the Russians, those Ukrainian soldiers are in their own country, fighting for their freedom.

The Russian army is in the oblasts of the Russian Federation - Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk, Luhansk, the Russian Republic of Crimea and the Russian federal city of Sevastopol.

Not in the Ukraine, M-tacnik.

56 posted on 01/20/2024 1:25:53 PM PST by kiryandil (Rocco is roccking again!!)
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To: JonPreston

Our guy Mercy is BACK!!!


57 posted on 01/20/2024 1:26:26 PM PST by kiryandil (Rocco is roccking again!!)
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To: kiryandil
the Poles have got that covered...

That's funny :P

Yeah, I seem to have two Stage 5 Clingers. This one has multiple names.

58 posted on 01/20/2024 1:27:36 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Timber Rattler; JonPreston
So you’re finally publicly standing with Putin now, eh?

The deck of neocon cards is so predictable.

"Time to play the Putin Puffer card!!", Vicky chortled happily.

59 posted on 01/20/2024 1:28:32 PM PST by kiryandil (Rocco is roccking again!!)
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To: JonPreston

They’re taking Krynky really, really hard...


60 posted on 01/20/2024 1:29:19 PM PST by kiryandil (Rocco is roccking again!!)
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