Posted on 09/29/2022 1:14:40 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that "all mistakes" made in a call-up to reinforce Russia's military operation in Ukraine should be corrected, his first public acknowledgment that the "partial mobilisation" he announced last week had not gone smoothly.
There have been widespread public expressions of discontent from officials and citizens over the way the mobilisation has been handled, including complaints about enlistment officers sending call-up papers to clearly ineligible men.
Thousands of men have fled Russia to avoid a draft that was billed as enlisting those with military experience and required specialities but has often appeared oblivious to individuals' service record, health, student status or even age.
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"In the course of this mobilisation, many questions are coming up, and all mistakes must be corrected and prevented from happening in the future," Putin said.
"For example, I'm thinking of fathers of many children, or people suffering from chronic diseases, or who those who are already past conscription age."
Russia's announcement on Sept. 21 of its first public mobilisation since World War Two had even attracted criticism from the Kremlin's own official supporters, something almost unheard of in Russia since it sent its army into Ukraine seven months ago.
"They're infuriating people, as if on purpose, as if out of spite. As if they'd been sent by Kyiv," the strongly pro-Kremlin editor of Russia's state-run RT news channel, Margarita Simonyan, said on Saturday.
On Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov acknowledged that some call-ups had been issued in error, saying mistakes were being corrected by regional governors and the ministry of defence.
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Putin on video link about his botched mobilization today. Great body language, Stronk Boy!
https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1575539391849672704
“We must correct mistakes and not allow them going forward,” he says, and everyone who doesn’t meet the criteria “must be sent home.”
Are they going to Canada to escape?
Should be and could be are two entirely different things.
L
This YT has video from a Russian boot camp where the commander admits he has no idea what he’s doing!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BftVo5ur4iY
The commander also says that people with disabilities are going to have to serve.
What’s your point? Anyone of those guys could kick your ass with one hand tied behind their back.
Your Putin effs it up once again. Not Stronk.
He didn’t say that, it’s just propaganda.
Putin just said it on Russian TV 2 hours ago! Watch the video!
” Anyone of those guys could kick your ass with one hand tied behind their back.”
Is the competition shuffleboard? That’s the only thing I could see this gang of seniors winning at.
Even funnier is given his botched mobilization, Putin might not be able to declare war against Ukraine tomorrow.
In fact, Ukraine might declare war against Russia first because of the illegal annexations that Putin is going to sign tomorrow.
Pretty humiliating for Putin if Ukraine declares war on Russia first.
Even funnier is that a couple hours ago Ukraine just HIMARed a large transport column of Putin’s newly arrived mobilized senior citizens in Nova Kakhovka on their way to Kherson. LOL! Boom!
It appears that our WW11 comrades are all that’s left of real soldiers. Where are the young men in both countries? We can’t have a war with Russia because young men on both sides refuse to fight. We are only helping Ukraine financially, etc. to save the Biden riches and the Nazi remains.
If only that happened in 1914.
The Putin video today was hilarious. Hunched forward and sweating. And why wasn’t his left hand moving?
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