Posted on 09/29/2022 5:00:01 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
The face of Russia’s war in Ukraine has wrinkles.
Photos documenting the first week of Russia’s mobilization order calling for 300,000 more soldiers to be drafted show older men being forced into the fight.
Images from the rural province of Sverdlovsk reveal a pair of silver-haired soldiers arriving at a training barracks in central Russia.
Some soldiers standing for inspection at a ceremony in Sevastopol displayed wrinkles and liver spots. One man, with a gray-streaked beard, held his AK-style rifle in a hand with three bandaged fingers.
When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he was calling up hundreds of thousands of troops in a so-called partial mobilization, he assured Russians the draft would prioritize young and healthy reservists.
Throughout the country, however, there have been reports of students, retired veterans, and Russians with medical issues being pressed into uniform.
In an address to Russia’s security council Thursday, Putin called such draftees “mistakes” and demanded they be corrected.
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They look like battle hardened supper troops to me, I’d hate to run up against them.
The FR Putin supporters here are going to accuse Ukraine of staging those photo ops, with older Ukrainians playing the roles of Russian soldiers. ;)
That breaks my heart. Those men have already lived through horrors we will never know and have earned the right to peaceful end years.
AARP Brigade.
(Absolutely Ancient Russian Patriots)
Women and children will be next.
It’s like watching Germany in its final days.
Old men and boys and many women were pressed into service by the Soviet Union during WWII. That was to defeat Hitler. As Americans, we should honor their sacrifice. But, this mobilization is just ridiculous.
The blue and white striped shirt looks like the one the Russian navy has used for years. Are these guys navy or army? They are in Crimea, right?
What horrors have they lived through? They look like 55 year old guys from the warehouse.
They didn’t live through the great struggle.
Jeez….Russia is not Biafra.
They are not there to fight, They will be sent there to occupy after a neutron bomb obliterates the populace.
Sounds like Vlad is conscripting from nursing homes.
Might be Afghan/Soviet War Veterans
nursing homes? maybe. My guess is these guys opted to get out of jail.
All typical vodka infused 20 year olds.
Russia was Soviet full blown communism. Do you think that was a walk in the park for rural workers? And those are not 55 year old men. If they are, and look that bad, even non communist Russia must be a sh$t hole.
When the USA puts troops on the ground in their war, these Russians may meet up with our finest, eh:
Reminds me of the Volkssturm.
It crossed my mind.
How do we know these guys are not volunteers, trying to pad their pensions by putting in extra time?
England did the same.
I know nothing
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