Posted on 09/21/2022 7:35:57 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Police wearing blacked-out helmets are dragging anti-mobilisation protestors off the streets of Russia tonight, as thousands come out to demonstrate against being sent to the front lines in Ukraine.
More than 1,000 people have been arrested tonight in 37 cities across Russia, including Moscow and St Petersburg, as they voiced their anger at President Vladimir Putin's order to mobilise 300,000 reservists.
There have been angry clashes between activists and security forces, with protestors being forcefully taken to the ground and removed from the streets as the government cracks down on vocal dissent.
Demonstrators tonight chanted anti-war slogans, with some calling for Putin himself to go to the trenches in Ukraine, while other's have angrily proclaimed they're not willing to die for him.
It is reported a total of 828 arrests have been made so far, with this number likely to rise throughout the night as the government cracks down on vocal dissent.
In the capital Moscow 303 people have been arrested, while the former imperial capital of St Petersburg saw 279 taken into custody, and 40 more have been arrested in Yekaterinburg, a city east of the Ural Mountains.
As protests spread, many men of fighting age opted to try and leave the country, driven by fears the border might soon be closed, with tickets for one-way flights out of Moscow being snapped up by worried Russians.
The decision to mobilise the country is the first of its type in the country since the Second World War, and has come as Russian forces sustain humiliating losses to advancing Ukrainian troops in the east of the country.
The first protests against the partial mobilisation took place in Siberia, with demonstrators risking being jailed under draconian laws forbidding criticism of the armed forces.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
That run-on sentence is worthy of ‘hugh and series’ status. Can you form a coherent string of words?
The U.S hands out flowers and lauds it’s dodgers. /S
I’m having a hard time figuring out of “cranked” is a Russian bot (having taken over a fairly old FR account), or if the member really is so blind and willing to himself be a Putin fanboy...
That could be a tagline, gagline!
You smoking what type crack these days with those alleged numbers?
How about stop spouting propaganda and back up those numbers, yeah?
Shoigu said 5,937.
“Mediazona, working with BBC News Russian service and a team of volunteers” says: 6219.
‘Russian casualties in Ukraine. Mediazona count, updated as of Sept. 9th’
https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/20/casualties_eng
Or better yet, disprove former deputy commander of Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces, ex-deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, General Sergey Krivonos.....
‘Ukrainian general estimates Kiev’s losses at hundreds of thousands since Feb’
https://tass.com/politics/1501881
Yep - you really do sound like a Russian troll farm flunkie. Seriously. I’ll be sure to ask my pastor friends in and around Kyiv about this. (Seriously).
Snitches on every street corner under Zel, local thugs empowered to deal with dissent, and no media coverage of it by CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, usual suspects.
Notice how you just indisputably refuted that which I said.
Are you fraking joking me? LMAO
Yo, that bridge that you crawled out from under is missing you about now.
You - for Ukrainian losses, you post a link to the official Russian Government news agency... nice.
The Data I posted is from several sources (from multi-national accounts).
Yep - you are delusional.
1,000 arrests spread over 37 cities?
The population of Moscow alone is 12.6 million
Where in the article does it label it a revolt? did I miss it?
And yet, you posted NOTHING to back up your asserted propaganda ladden BS!
Putin’s end is near. No Russian wants to face hero Ukraine’s in Battle. They will lose as so many others have. What is the death count now? 40,000 Russians dead. Every tank they send a burning hulk, every warship a sunken wreck. Their air force fearful of our rockets. The war will be over soon.
What? I thought they were actors, FBI plants and Antifa that were arrested??! Trump supporters involved in that?
“What? I thought they were actors, FBI plants and Antifa that were arrested??! Trump supporters involved in that?”
Something in the air there?
If they are going to try to force a slave army into combat, can they even trust them with live ammo?
Ivan, Kill your officers and surrender, at your first chance.
Russian people protesting their warmongering neocons.
“many men of fighting age opted to try and leave the country,”
Draft age in Russia is now up to age 65
Ever notice what’s on the backs of the uniforms of some of the Russian riot police? “OMOH” (just after 3:08).
300.000 plastic bags. Putin declared partial mobilization
https://youtu.be/R2j3GPG6qcE
And Ukraine is conscripting women.
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