Russian soldiers ‘beat up’ for refusing to fight in Ukraine war - BBC News
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Dec 12, 2022
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The BBC has learnt of violence against Russian soldiers refusing to fight in the war in Ukraine.
Families have spoken of their relatives being locked up.
President Vladimir Putin announced what he called a “partial mobilisation”, drafting hundreds of thousands of Russian citizens into the armed forces.
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1- US official : Over 2,000 Ukrainian children abducted by Russia since New Year
The Kyiv Independent news desk
January 13, 2023 4:53 pm
“Russia reportedly abducted as many as 2,000 children from Ukraine into Russia since Jan. 1, Michael Carpenter, the U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE, said on Jan. 13.
Russian forces have unlawfully transferred or deported thousands of Ukrainian civilians to Russia, violating the Geneva Conventions, Carpenter said.
As of Dec. 22, 2022, Ukrainian authorities quoted by a Detektor Media investigation said that more than 13,000 thousand children were forcibly removed from Ukraine by Russia.
The Ukrainian military’s National Resistance Center said on Jan. 10 that the Russian military is compiling lists of those who can be mobilized into the army after graduation, starting with those who will come of age in 2023.
The center also said that children born in 2005-2006 in Russian-occupied territories in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts must already register for compulsory military service.
“This advance planning to use Ukraine’s children as cannon fodder for Russia’s war is – I have no other words – it’s just plain evil,” Carpenter said.“It would also be a violation of the laws of war for Russia to conscript citizens of Ukraine from the areas Russia occupies.”
2- Ukraine war latest: Russia sends conscripts in combat zones as Ukrainian military conducts counterattacks in Soledar
by Thaisa Semenova
January 12, 2023 11:42 pm
https://kyivindependent.com/national/ukraine-war-latest-russia-sends-conscripts-in-combat-zones-as-ukrainian-military-conducts-counterattacks-in-soledar
3- General Staff: Ukrainian military strikes 3 Russian control centers
https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/general-staff-ukrainian-military-strikes-3-russian-control-centers
January 13, 2023 7:53 am
In their Jan. 13 update, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces reported that Ukraine’s rocket and artillery forces hit 12 temporary bases of Russian troops, an S-300 anti-aircraft missile system, three ammunition depots, and three other key Russian sites.
Ukrainian forces repelled Russian attacks near 18 settlements, including Stelmakhivka, Makiivka and Bilohorivka in the Luhansk Oblast and Spirne, Rozdolivka, Sil, Krasna Hora, Pidhorodne, Bakhmut, Klishchiivka, Predtechyne, Kurdiumivka, Vodiane, Nevelske, Krasnohorivka, Mariinka and Velyka Novosilka in Donetsk Oblast.
According to the Ukrainian military, the Russian army launched five missiles on cities in Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, 18 air strikes, and 52 MLRS attacks. Ukrainian forces also downed a Russian Su-25 aircraft and an Orlan-10 type of drone.