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Posted on 03/14/2023 1:57:42 AM PDT by Libloather
Russia is reportedly preparing to deploy women prisoners to the front line for the first time.
Due to heavy losses in the war, Vladimir Putin has sought ‘alternative sources of replenishment of manpower’, the Ukrainian armed forces general staff claims.
‘Last week there was a movement towards the Donetsk region of a train with reserved seats for transporting prisoners. One of the carriages [was for] convicted women,’ said a statement.
Earlier this week, there were reports the Kremlin had moved female convicts to Kuschevka in Krasnodar region, close to the war zone.
Here some female prisoners – released under a special scheme linked to the war effort – were put to work as farm labourers in field as well as ‘greenhouses and cowsheds’, possibly deployed in supplying the military.
Olga Romanova, of Russian Behind Bars Foundation, believes around 100 women were sent to Ukraine.
Male prisoners have been recruited in Russia in their tens of thousands and offered a deal which reduces their sentences if they serve – and stay alive – for six months at the frontline.
Last month the Ukrainian general staff said that Russia was actively ‘trying to recruit convicted women to participate in the hostilities’.
This was to ‘compensate for losses in personnel’, they said.
Some had been recruited from a women’s penal colony in Snezhnoye, in occupied Donetsk region.
Even before the war broke out, and amid long-term personnel shortages in the Russian Armed Forces, the Kremlin has made little efforts to enlist women.
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No, they are drafting boys and men from 16 to 60. Hell, 25% to 40% of the Ukraine’s population has fled the Ukraine and they are desperate.
You posted “Ukraine starts drafting reservists aged 18-60 after president’s order”
Ukraine - Media Start To Acknowledge Reality
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/03/ukraine-media-start-to-acknowledge-reality.html
Finally some truth about the real state of the Ukrainian military is sneaking into main stream media. It is as bad, still not fully disclosed, as we have described it again and again.
As the Washington Post provides:
Ukraine short of skilled troops and munitions as losses, pessimism grow
I’ll leave out the propaganda bits and go for the factual beef. The quotes are long but needed to grasp the depth of horrible situation.
The opening paragraph:
The quality of Ukraine’s military force, once considered a substantial advantage over Russia, has been degraded by a year of casualties that have taken many of the most experienced fighters off the battlefield, leading some Ukrainian officials to question Kyiv’s readiness to mount a much-anticipated spring offensive.
[rest at link]
“ Putin is becoming Hitler in the bunker.”
Good job swallowing the media narrative. Why investigate for yourself when you can have others tell you what to think. You sound vaccinated.
I suspect that, with Ukraine previously described as one of if not the most corrupt county in Europe, that this widespread support for them among the usual suspects isn’t exactly for the reasons they say.
News flash, the people calling Putin Hitler called Trump Hitler. You choose to believe them?
Why, yes I did.
So Ukraine is calling up 18 to 60-year-old reservists?
If it will keep Biden in blood money, Ukraine will call up 100 year olds.
“”with Ukraine previously described as one of if not the most corrupt county in Europe,””
Not even close, that would be Russia, rated far more corrupt than Ukraine.
Ukraine is improving on its corruption score and Russia is getting worse.
The Ukrainian armed forces general staff “CLAIMS”......That’s all anyone really needs to hear isn’t it?
On occasion, we have brought in the old, for example, the medical field with doctors and dentists in their 60s, there are many fields where age is not a barrier, computers, intelligence analysts, field grade officers, specialized technicians/scientists, engineers, whatever.
When your nation is actually being invaded and your cities overrun by the enemy some peacetime luxuries are not indulged, after 9/11 even the United States was bringing in old ex-Green Berets and allowing 42-year-old women and men their first enlistment.
I bumped into Rear Admiral Grace Hopper at the airport once when I was heading to a NATO exercise, she retired in 1986, months away from her 80th birthday.
Every male in the Ukraine is a reservist.
“”Every male in the Ukraine is a reservist””
Think about that, I don’t think so.
Ukraine does have reservists, and being born male doesn’t mean you are one of them.
“ Ukraine is improving on its corruption score and Russia is getting worse.”
Says who? The people trying to sell us a war? Yep, those are the people claiming Ukraine is getting better. Do you believe them? Ukraine is less corrupt today? Our billions are accounted for?
Was this before or after the bio labs that we didn’t have that we had there?
Not buying that for a single second., but you do you.
This entire thing has been about the Black Sea. No Russian govt will ever allow its Black Sea interests to be threatened.
“”Says who? The people trying to sell us a war? Yep, those are the people claiming Ukraine is getting better. Do you believe them? Ukraine is less corrupt today? Our billions are accounted for?
Was this before or after the bio labs that we didn’t have that we had there?
Not buying that for a single second., but you do you.””
Wow, from start to finish you just did the whole conversation in your own head. I bet you win all those arguments.
Russia already has a lower birth rate than the US. Sending women to fight sacrifices long term economic growth and replenishment of Russian troops for short-term gains. Not a smart move by Putin.
More CIA drivel..... Joe’s Vietnam is not ageing well....
IIRC we actually sent troops to Vietnam, which we mercifully have not done for Ukraine.
Russia needs Ukraine like a fish needs a bicycle.
So why is the fish fighting so long and so hard to obtain that bicycle?
Women in prison, don’t they make naughty movies about this?
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