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Angry Families of Missing Russian Soldiers Want Answers From Putin
Wall Street Journal MSN ^ | 5/7/2024 | Ann M. Simmons, Kate Vtorygina

Posted on 05/08/2024 4:44:37 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

Natalia Kruglova last spoke to her husband, Pvt. Ivan Petrov, on Sept. 29. The Russian army conscript told Kruglova he had been ordered back to the front lines in southeastern Ukraine. Then he disappeared.

Kruglova wrote to her husband’s commanding officers, the Defense Ministry and even military prosecutors in search of news, but to no avail. Weeks later, the army declared Petrov missing but offered no explanation of what had happened to him.

“It’s as if no one owes you anything, no one cares,” Kruglova, 45, said in an interview from her home in the Russian far eastern city of Magadan.

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Despite suffering two serious head injuries, including one from a blast wave that broke his jaw, knocked out his teeth and kept him out of service for weeks, Kruglova’s husband wasn’t allowed to return to their home in Magadan, she said.

Together for seven years, the couple spoke almost every day while Petrov, 41, a truck driver before the war, was deployed.

Their last conversation was tinged with foreboding.

“He wanted to go home,” said Kruglova, a civil servant, who has been on disability for the past decade after five surgeries on her spine. “He understood everything, understood that they wouldn’t let him leave there. He knew he wouldn’t come back.”

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KEYWORDS: annmsimmons; gluteusmaximus; katevtorygina; may9; propo; psychomaximus; russia; tellputin; themarcus; theputin; victoryday; yasivchar
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1 posted on 05/08/2024 4:44:37 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

A Ukrainian father is mourning his fallen son.

When will the world realise that they are asking Ukrainians for too much?

“””Go and fight Russia, so that my NATO boy does not have to fight”.””

Unfair bastards. pic.twitter.com/VsMFQhlUYz— Alternative News (@AlternatNews) May 4, 2024


2 posted on 05/08/2024 4:49:58 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

I wonder if by declaring him “missing” open-ended, rather than killed, that Russia avoids paying out anything to his presumed widow hwere?


3 posted on 05/08/2024 4:54:38 AM PDT by desertsolitaire (Doomed to be Cassandra-like?)
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To: JonPreston
Despite suffering two serious head injuries, including one from a blast wave that broke his jaw, knocked out his teeth and kept him out of service for weeks, Kruglova’s husband wasn’t allowed to return to their home in Magadan
4 posted on 05/08/2024 4:55:24 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: desertsolitaire

Good point


5 posted on 05/08/2024 4:57:00 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: marcusmaximus
Nazi much?

Forced mobilisation in Ukraine.

The soldier wears the Nazi eagle.
#UkraineWar pic.twitter.com/F4To6dmY1J— Filippo Maria O di B (@filippomaria60) April 29, 2024


6 posted on 05/08/2024 4:58:36 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: desertsolitaire

Russia still hasn’t paid any compensation to the families of the missing sailors from the sunk Moskva flagship. It was sunk over 2 years ago.


7 posted on 05/08/2024 4:59:44 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: JonPreston

Tell Putin to bury Lenin’s corpse. And to take down his red hammer and sickle flags.


8 posted on 05/08/2024 5:01:20 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus
How can this be?


9 posted on 05/08/2024 5:05:58 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

Tell Putin to bury Lenin.


10 posted on 05/08/2024 5:10:08 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: JonPreston

Supporting Russia is Supporting Hamas and Supporting terrorism

Terrorists support terrorism


11 posted on 05/08/2024 5:12:11 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: bert

What would a Biden supporter like you know about international politics?


12 posted on 05/08/2024 5:13:55 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: marcusmaximus; bert
Please explain


13 posted on 05/08/2024 5:15:02 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

Is it Iran who pays you for spouting drivel?


14 posted on 05/08/2024 5:15:58 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Hamascide is required in totality)
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To: bert
is this the work of Your Biden?

🇺🇦 UKRAINE: RUSSIA TRIED TO KILL OUR PRESIDENT

🇷🇺 RUSSIA: … 😶

Ukraine arrested two Russian agents they claim were plotting to assassinate Zelensky and several other Ukrainian officials as a gift to Putin for his inauguration.

The Russian government, in rare form, has refused… pic.twitter.com/qOTQyUb6fr— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 8, 2024


15 posted on 05/08/2024 5:16:57 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

Bury Lenin’s corpse.


16 posted on 05/08/2024 5:18:24 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: JonPreston

You don’t give a crap about Russian soldiers, do you? You’re quite the phony Ivan Prestovich.


17 posted on 05/08/2024 5:20:58 AM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: marcusmaximus; bert
Explain The Milley

Ret. Gen. Mark Milley says the US has committed so many war crimes over the years, it has no right to criticize Israel's devastation of Gaza

Palantir CEO Alex Karp chimes in: "The peace activists are actually the war activists, and we're the peace activists."

Karp says of Gaza… pic.twitter.com/Ktc5H4uYJi— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) May 8, 2024


18 posted on 05/08/2024 5:21:05 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: MeganC

Please lose those horrible ideations. It makes one ugly and sick.


19 posted on 05/08/2024 5:22:51 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

Have you registered as a foreign agent? You should hurry and do so before someone reports you.


20 posted on 05/08/2024 5:24:05 AM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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