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  • Vladimir Putin forces his cannon-fodder conscripts to remain at frontline with threat of a bullet in the head from his 'retreat-blocking detachment' if they flee to save their lives in Ukraine

    03/26/2023 7:33:27 AM PDT · by Timber Rattler · 31 replies
    The Daily Mail ^ | March 25, 2023 | Oliver Price
    Vladimir Putin's commanders are forcing his conscript soldiers at gunpoint to remain at the frontline. They are using a brutal Stalin tactic to prevent Russian reservist troops leaving their positions, say men who have seen the horror of the cannon-fodder killing fields. 'People are abandoned in the trenches as if homeless and littered with corpses,' complained Russian reservist draftees in a new video appealing directly to Vladimir Putin. 'Retreat-blocking detachments were set up against us and they did not let us out of positions.' They are forced at gunpoint to remain in position, a tactic used by Stalin's cruel SMERSH...
  • BREAKING! Ukraine forcing ethnic Hungarians to fight Russia, Hungary outraged

    02/23/2023 8:28:02 AM PST · by euram · 155 replies
    youtube ^ | Feb 21 2023 | Redacted News
    Russia is not the only country with grievances about Ukraine. Hungary and Romania also accuse the country of persecuting ethnic groups living in Ukraine and now forcibly conscripting them into military service. Now the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission will investigate Ukraine for violations of minority rights.
  • Russian conscripts report massive losses in Eastern Ukraine: Husband of Head of RT News argues that nuclear threats/strikes are the way to go

    11/08/2022 10:19:38 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 20 replies
    Hotair ^ | 11/08/2022 | John Sexton
    Russian mobiks, as the newly mobilized recruits are called, have been complaining for weeks that they were sent to the front lines in Ukraine with no training and little to no equipment. As you would expect when troops with no discipline and no equipment are sent to the front lines, the results are not good. Over the last few days there have been reports that hundreds of mobiks sent to the front lines in they city of Makiyivka in eastern Ukraine were wiped out. Here’s a map created by the Guardian which show the location of Makiyivka:The report about what...
  • ‘We were completely exposed’: Russian conscripts say hundreds killed in attack

    11/07/2022 5:28:02 PM PST · by marcusmaximus · 31 replies
    Guardian UK ^ | 11/7/2022 | Pjotr Sauer
    Hours after Aleksei Agafonov arrived in the Luhansk region on 1 November as part of a battalion of new conscripts, his unit were handed shovels and ordered to dig trenches throughout the night. Their digging, which they took turns to do because of the lack of available shovels, was abruptly interrupted in the early hours of the next day as Ukrainian artillery lit up the sky and shells started raining down on Agafonov and his unit. “A Ukrainian drone first flew over us, and after that their artillery started to pound us for hours and hours, nonstop,” Agafonov, who survived...
  • Russian mobilised soldiers stage mutiny and hit back at Putin

    10/28/2022 4:59:24 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 44 replies
    Dozens of mobilised soldiers have staged an extraordinary mutiny telling how they have no respect for the authorities in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. A uniformed spokesman for the men is applauded by conscripts after he threatened the people should topple their rulers over the war in Ukraine. He berates an unseen commander or top official over the threats faced by conscripts called to war by the Kremlin dictator. The unnamed reservist mocks a policy in his region - the Tuva republic in Siberia - to gift a ram to each family of those mobilised. He says there are not enough walkie-talkies...
  • 'Everything has collapsed': Russia's draft tanks small businesses

    10/13/2022 2:12:46 PM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 60 replies
    yahoo ^ | 12 Oct 2022
    The space is usually overflowing with designers, programmers and young Russians working on their start-ups. But since President Vladimir Putin announced a mobilisation of hundreds of thousands of young Russian men last month, the 33-year-old has lost much of his clientele. "Many have stopped coming," he told AFP by phone. Instead, they are filling the depleted ranks of Russia's army or they are among the tens of thousands of others who have fled south for neighbouring Kazakhstan.
  • Russia’s forces are drunk, armed with ‘obsolete’ weapons: Ukraine

    10/04/2022 3:50:03 PM PDT · by dennisw · 107 replies
    NY POST ^ | October 4, 2022 | By Snejana Farberov
    Soldiers in Russia’s newly formed 3rd Army Corps fighting in Ukraine are often drunk, plagued by low morale and forced to use obsolete weapons on the battlefield, according to the Ukrainian military. The Kremlin cobbled together the formation in June to replace the tens of thousands of troops killed or injured since the start of the invasion in February. It is composed of several brigades totaling some 15,000 mostly volunteer soldiers equipped with hundreds of tanks, Newsweek reported. But according to an update from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Monday, Russia’s five-month-old unit is facing...
  • Footage shows Russian conscripts revolt on the border, saying they're 'treated as cattle', given 'zero training' and kept in 'brutal, appalling conditions' as they're sent to Ukraine

    10/06/2022 8:06:06 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 45 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 10/6/2022 | Will Stewart
    Russian conscripts are in revolt after being treated like 'cattle' and given 'no training' as they head to the war in Ukraine. A video shows the men publicly complaining about their treatment in 'brutal, absolutely appalling conditions' after they were mobilised by Vladimir Putin. The shocking footage is just the latest evidence of the total chaos over the Russian call-up of reservists that has left even Kremlin cheerleaders in despair. The desperate recruits risk punishment by venting their fury over their plight after arriving by train in Belgorod region which borders Ukraine. One of the soldiers, acting as a spokesman...
  • Central Asia wrestles with huge influx of Russians fleeing army duty

    10/03/2022 11:07:30 AM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 18 replies
    American Military News ^ | 10/02/22 | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
    As Russians escaping a partial military mobilization in their homeland drank their morning coffee in a cinema that opened its doors for them in northwestern Kazakhstan, Central Asia was waking up to yet more fallout from Moscow’s bloody war in Ukraine. Almost a week into the drive for soldiers that Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on September 21 in response to a tide-shifting Ukrainian counteroffensive, sightings of Russians wandering the streets of cities throughout the region with backpacks and lost expressions have become commonplace. So, too, have lengthening lines at the state borders that Russian citizens can still cross without...
  • VIDEO: Semi-Sober Recruits Inducted into Russian Army

    09/26/2022 6:40:48 AM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 6 replies
    Newsbusters ^ | September 26, 2022 | DUmmie FUnnies
    VIDEOThere has been a mass callup to induct new recruits into the Russian army. However, as you can see the quality of many of these recruits is of a semi-sober nature.
  • Russian mum's fight to save sons from Putin's war

    05/29/2022 8:09:26 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 12 replies
    BBC ^ | 5/27/2022 | Steve Rosenberg
    When Marina's two sons were conscripted last winter to the Russian army she welcomed the idea of her children doing a year's military service. "I told them that they had to serve," Marina tells me, "it was their duty to the motherland." But a few weeks later she began to worry. Her sons had been deployed to an area close to the border with Ukraine. -snip- Marina is angry about what happened. "They lied to my face," she told me. "First they lied that my sons weren't in Ukraine. Then they lied that they'd signed military contracts. Officers lied, sergeants...
  • Ex-President of Ireland Says Baptism Creates “Infant Conscripts”

    06/23/2018 6:00:46 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 64 replies
    Crux ^ | 6/23/18 | Charles Collins
    LEICESTER, United Kingdom - Baptizing babies is a violation of their human rights, according to the former president of Ireland. Mary McAleese, who served in the largely ceremonial role of president from 1997-2011, also said she would not attend the Aug. 22-26 World Meeting of Families taking place in Dublin. She told the Irish Times the event, which Pope Francis will attend Aug. 25-26, will only serve as a “political rally” for the “reinforcement of orthodoxy.” McAleese told the newspaper that by baptizing children before they have reached the age of reason, the Church is creating “infant conscripts who are...
  • Sweden set to reintroduce conscription: broadcaster SR

    03/02/2017 2:19:33 AM PST · by csvset · 12 replies
    Reuters ^ | 2 March 2017 | Wire
    Sweden set to reintroduce conscription: broadcaster SR Sweden's center-left government will decide on Thursday to reintroduce military conscription next year, amid lingering difficulties filling the ranks on a voluntary basis and a more uncertain security situation, public broadcaster SR reported. The Nordic country mothballed compulsory military service in 2010, but military activity in the Baltic region has increased since, in the wake of Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, prompting Sweden to step up military preparedness. The decision to reintroduce the draft, following recommendations by an official investigation, will cover both men and women born in 1999 or later, though...
  • More Russian conscripts forced to fight in Ukraine

    09/02/2014 2:40:42 AM PDT · by WhiskeyX · 2 replies
    Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group KhPG ^ | 02.09.14 | Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group KhPG
    Conscripts doing military service in the Tula oblast are reported to have been forced to sign contracts allowing them to be sent to Ukraine. Mothers of soldiers from military unit 33842 told TV Dozhd that 8 soldiers had signed themselves, while the heads of the unit had signed for the others on Aug 19. [....] His family explains that he phoned them a few days ago and said that the soldiers in his unit were being forced to sign contracts. His parents told him not to sign under any circumstances, especially since his military service was due to end on...
  • THE RUSSIAN LEADERSHIP IS CONCERNED ABOUT CRIMES IN THE ARMY

    03/30/2005 4:58:03 PM PST · by FreedomCalls · 3 replies · 235+ views
    Defense and Security ^ | 2005.03.18 | Alexander Dubovoi
    However, no measures are taken to improve the situation in the Army The tragedy involving the murder of three officers and three policemen by deserters again proves that even elite units (the border guard service of the FSB) have serious problems with military discipline. Victor Zavarzin, head of the Duma defense committee, recently announced that the number of convicted soldiers and officers of the border guard service increased by 36.5% in 2004 (!). The increase of the crime rate in the federal service for protection of public officials amounted to 20.3%. It should be noted that the crime rate in...
  • PLEASE! STOP POSTING SAME MESSAGE ON ALL BOARDS!

    08/16/2002 7:39:49 AM PDT · by Merchant Seaman · 754 replies · 30,137+ views
    Annoyed Reader
    The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!
  • Iraqis keep up suicidal probes of US lines near Karbala

    03/27/2003 2:16:11 AM PST · by HAL9000 · 7 replies · 175+ views
    Associated Press | March 27, 2003 | CHRIS TOMLINSON
    NEAR KARBALA, Iraq (AP) - The ferocious sandstorm that halted the U.S. drive on Baghdad lifted Thursday and coalition warplanes were back in the sky in force, blasting Iraqi light armor that probed American lines as troops resumed their advance 50 miles south of the capital. Troops awoke to bright sunshine after a night when temperatures dipped into the 30s. Small groups of Iraqi armored personnel carriers -- ranging from three to six vehicles -- tested U.S. defenses. When the Iraqis closed within 10 miles, they were blasted by coalition warplanes that again ranged the skies above all of...