Public transport, cafes and supermarkets are now off limits to men trying to avoid being enlisted.
  • Roonerino [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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    14 days ago

    It's pretty crazy how Russian fake news propaganda gets consistently published 6-12 months later in the western press as true facts. The only logical conclusion is that Putler has somehow infiltrated and compromised every major news outlet in the world. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    14 days ago

    I genuinely can't understand the mindset that would lead someone to inviting people at risk of conscription to a wedding in a public space like a beach.

    The mobilisation squads have a fearsome reputation, especially in Odesa, for pulling people off buses and from train stations and ferrying them straight to enlistment centres.

    This strikes me as a fluff piece intended to play down the violent and brutal nature of these kidnapper squads.

  • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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    14 days ago
    cw: SA

    If we run out of men, the enemy will come to their homes, rape their women, and kill their children." Vlad has seen the awful evidence first-hand.

    Hell of a sentence

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      14 days ago

      He then reeled off the same list of reasons given by every draft dodger we spoke to – a family to support

      But nor did these men want to spend the rest of the war in hiding. One of them, Oleksandr, had already opted to become a drone pilot.

      Words don't mean anything.

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    14 days ago

    These kidnapping squads definitely aren’t going to the frontline with their “recruits”.