Posted on 09/22/2022 6:56:32 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Summons delivered to eligible men at midnight. Schoolteachers pressed into handing out draft notices. Men given an hour to pack their things and appear at draft centres. Women sobbing as they sent their husbands and sons off to fight in Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The first full day of Russia’s first mobilisation since the second world war produced emotional showdowns at draft centres and even signs of protest, while it appears Russia could be considering far more than the 300,000 new conscripts claimed by the defence minister, Sergei Shoigu.
One woman in a small village in the Zakamensky region of Buryatia, in eastern Siberia, said she first felt something was amiss when the dogs began barking about midnight.
In a community of 450 people, the village head was walking from house to house, seeking to hand out more than 20 draft notices. As men gathered before departing the next morning, she said, some drank vodka, while others hugged and told each other to stay safe. Women cried and made the sign of the cross over the small minibus that carried them away.
“It’s not a partial mobilisation, it’s a 100% mobilisation,” said Alexandra Garmazhapova, president of the Free Buryatia Foundation, an activist group that has reported on the draft in the region. In the past day, she said, she and her colleagues had received and identified more than 3,000 reports of povestka, or draft papers, being delivered in Buryatia within just 24 hours of Vladimir Putin announcing the draft.
Despite assurances that Russia would be seeking men who had recently served in the army and had combat experience, activists pointed to a number of cases of men in their 50s receiving draft notices.
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OMG are you really trying to say Russia didn’t have their ass handed to them? Oh geez.
If they are doing so well, why do they need to declare war and mobilize now?
“At least Neville Chamberlain tried to avoid the abyss.”
And got the conflagration.
You guys fail to realize the gravity of situation if it ever goes to approach this level. You’d burn to death first.
Russian army has always been trash...and their poor performance in Ukraine proves it.
But what they do very well is send in overwhelming numbers of people to get killed until the enemy gets tired of killing them/and or runs out of ammo.
Tell me what the Ukie casualties versus the Russian casualties were in the operation.
You can't.
How so? Putin might lose control of his army. It's been one hundred years. But same $#it, basically. The Russian army is always weak so they are not a threat to the regime.
You really don’t understand war do you? Did you even ever serve in the military.
By your logic the Allies lost on D-Day when they stormed normandy. They lost way more than the Germans.
Nuts. The entire thing is nuts and all sides run by insane leaders.
Yes russia is doing so well they are mobilizing for the big parade they plan to throw next week for their major victory.
LOL
That's a possibility.
Strawman, as par.
You swallow whole the Western/EU/UK/US/NATO propaganda ridden media spewage with open abandon but can’t accept any other sources. Yeah, okie dokie.
Nothing more that a form of Leftist censorship which goes like this: ‘My sources are legit, everything else is bullsh*t.’
If we applied that idiotic logic to its fullest extent, there would be no other sources that anyone could use other than those approved by you and your cohorts which is/are basically the Western/EU/UK?US/NATO propaganda-ridden sources.
Texas is proud of you, moronic idiot.
I've forgotten more books on war than you've ever seen in your life - much less read.
That’s like saying, how many National Guard and Reservist were called up by the US military to fight a 3rd rate country like Iraq? How many were called up for the 20-year war in Afghanistan which resulted/ended in utter BS?
Of course not. It is obvious that the objective shift given the circumstances. You won’t control the whole of Ukraine with a current force, of which half are rebels.
I like how relaxed you are over it. It is a problem, isn’t it?
The West is thinking the more Russians they can draw into the hornet’s nest, the better. Besides, no Americans are being harmed in this war. Beating Russia without American casualties is a win/win in Washington. The price paid by Ukraine is irrelevant.
But they are losing the areas they want to control forever. They already found out they have no chance at all of Ukraine.
“It not works this way.”
Why not? Russian media is saying that those with prior military experience will be called up. Why drag out a guy in his forties who hasn’t been in the military in 20 years, when you can call up 400,000 who have only been out a year?
What kind of sentence structure is that?
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