60 Russian soldiers 'stage a mutiny and refuse to fight in Ukraine – and now face prison sentences'

Daily Mail ^ | 4/7/2022 | Will Stewart

[marcusmaximus]

[17th Miss Regt]

There is trouble in Putin’s army....

[dfwgator]

“Stick Together!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4kQvkvGi9M

[allendale]

If true then this is very significant. Paratroopers are not ill trained, teenage conscripts. Can only imagine what is happening among the Russian rank and file as they take casualties, lose faith in their political and military leadership, and find themselves in a quagmire.

[oldvirginian]

Sire!
The peasants are revolting!

[Mouton]

I admire them. They will be severely handled. Meanwhile if that happened here as long as they cited some racial or ethnic reason they would get a medal.

[JimRed]

Mutiny in war time usually results in execution. Is Russia becoming soft?

[hoagy62]

Well...if you’re in a military organization, and you refuse to carry out an order you don’t like...that’s what happens.

[Lurker]

Putin says it’s not a war. It’s a Special Military Action.

L

[entropy12]

How many Americans of draft age escaped to Canada?

[Leaning Right]

The Romans handled cowardly soldiers by decimating them - randomly executing one man out of every ten. I wonder if Putin is considering the same thing.

As a side note, one reason Tsar Nicholas was deposed is that he insisted that his troops continue fighting in an unpopular war (WW I). I wonder if Putin has considered that as well.

[entropy12]

Did you admire all those young draft age Americans by the thousands who escaped to Canada during Vietnam war?

[wardaddy]

Lol

Daily mail god love em....they are consistently Pravda on the Thames

Stonewall Jackson hanged deserters

I think he used firing squad on several that had been his cadets at VMI as a courtesy

[Red Badger]

[Red Badger]

[Renfrew]

“If true then this is very significant. Paratroopers are not ill trained, teenage conscripts.

The VDV has also seen some of the worst loses in this war. By design they are lightly armored and fast moving. They were the tip of the spear sent into the Ukrainian cities in the first weeks of the war.

They learned very quickly what an ATGM does to an aluminum hulled BMP.

[Leaning Right]

> Putin says it’s not a war. It’s a Special Military Action. <

So Putin used the word “military”. That shows just how dumb he is. Obama and Hillary called their military intervention in Libya a “kinetic action”. And everybody loved them for it. Words matter, Mr. Putin.

[Yo-Yo]

Some have been dismissed and branded 'cowards' while others are set to face the Russian equivalent of a court martial with likely jail sentences.

[marcusmaximus]

Count de Money!

[Jaysin]

like pretty much every article in the MSM regarding Ukraine — i take it with a very stale grain of salt.