Posted on 10/12/2022 6:38:39 AM PDT by Salohcin
Russian authorities are mobilizing men from the country’s most vulnerable groups to send to the front in Ukraine, the independent Mediazona news website reported Tuesday.
In Moscow, security officers have taken men to military enlistment centers from charity centers for the homeless and needy as well as hostels where labor migrants live, Mediazona reported.
The Food Not Bombs group, which hands out food to Moscow’s homeless community, told Mediazona that it has seen dozens of homeless men taken off the street and brought to military enlistment offices in the weeks since President Vladimir Putin declared a “partial” mobilization.
“The police come here without anyone asking. They see a queue of people waiting for food — and then they grab them by the scruff of the neck, against their will,” the head of the Salvation Hangar, an Orthodox Christian organization that helps the homeless, told Mediazona.
The men are then loaded onto buses and transported to military enlistment offices.
“A 60-year-old man was taken away, then he was released and came back. He told me that they were taken to the military commissariat, where many people who had been called up for war were standing in line. He was told that he didn’t fit the age criteria and that they only take men up to 45 years old,” a representative of Food Not Bombs told Mediazona.
The news website also reported that authorities have come to hostels commonly used as residences by “couriers, labor migrants, taxi drivers, small-scale managers and vendors” to recruit men for Russia’s ongoing invasion.
One guest of the Travel Inn hostel in Moscow told Mediazona that on Oct. 8, police cordoned off the area around the hostel and started searching the rooms and asking for guests’ documents.
“Those who were served draft papers were ordered to come with their things the next day at 9:00 and their passports were confiscated. Those who weren’t handed draft papers were released, ” the eyewitness claimed.
Hundreds of thousands of men have fled Russia since Putin declared the “partial” mobilization on Sept. 21.
Numerous reports have said that the mobilization effort has disproportionately targeted men from poorer regions, ethnic minorities and disenfranchised backgrounds.
“That's why they came to the Hangar,” the head of the Salvation Hangar said. “They know that no one will stand up for the homeless.”
An Army of Gopniks.
Russia needs Shock Troops not Stunned Troops.
This is up there with Ghost of Kiev
Sad Sacks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28eYR9EguD4
World War 3 Commences. Women, Minorities Hit Hardest.
Oh no!! Russia’s new tactic appears to be they are going to beggar Ukraine into submission.
Yea. Not your top tier recruits.
Russia’s new tactic appears to me to be they are going to bugger Russia into submission.
Most of the reporting on this war is fake news, but this is, IMHO, believable.
Yep. That’s Putin’s plan. Make a big mess and beg the west to force Ukraine to surrender. Russia’s corrupt and fake army has no hope of ever defeating Ukrainian “farmers and miners” that are armed with quality NATO weapons and not Iranian junk.
They just arrested 5 russians and 3 others for the Ukraine explosion. Of course they claim there was a Ukrainian master mind behind the whole thing.
Will they have beebers?
Russia’s new tactic appears to me to be they are going to bugger Russia into submission.
It might just be crazy enough to work.
Poor men have been fighting rich men’s wars since the beginning of time. This is nothing new.
You post training porn? Seriously?
There are tons of youtubes on the reality of Russian military ops in Ukraine. It’s a real war, not training films.
That’s why they’re losing you know. Their leadership believes in fantasies and BS blown up their A##.
When they run out of homeless only the nationalists will be left. Then there will be no nationalists.
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