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Russia is grabbing men off the street to fight in Ukraine
The Washington Post ^ | October 16, 2022 | Robyn Dixon and Natalia Abbakumova

Posted on 10/16/2022 12:31:30 PM PDT by Timber Rattler

Police and military officers swooped down on a Moscow business center this past week unannounced. They were looking for men to fight in Ukraine — and they seized nearly every one they saw. Some musicians, rehearsing. A courier there to deliver a parcel. A man from a Moscow service agency, very drunk, in his mid-50s, with a walking disability.

“I have no idea why they took him,” said Alexei, who, like dozens of others in the office complex, was rounded up and taken to the nearest military enlistment office, part of a harsh new phase in the Russian drive.

In cities and towns across Russia, men of fighting age are going into hiding to avoid the officials who are seizing them and sending them to fight in Ukraine.

Police and military press-gangs in recent days have snatched men off the streets and outside Metro stations. They’ve lurked in apartment building lobbies to hand out military summonses. They’ve raided office blocks and hostels. They’ve invaded cafes and restaurants, blocking the exits.

At a predawn sweep on the Mipstroy1 construction company dormitories on Thursday, they took more than 200 men. On Oct. 9, they rounded up dozens at a Moscow shelter for the homeless.

The press-gangs appear to descend at random. It is terrifying — and, at times, comically haphazard. Alexei, a 30-something pacifist, lives with his cat and, until he was hauled off, enjoyed hanging out with friends in bars, cafes and parks, going to concerts and planning his next holiday in Europe. (He and others in this report spoke on the condition that his last name be withheld out of concern for his safety. The Washington Post has confirmed the raid, but could not independently verify the details he provided.)

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To: Timber Rattler
Russia is grabbing men off the street to fight in Ukraine

It's so bad that even this battle-axe got pulled off the streets.

Her own fault for wielding that flashlight in such a manly fashion.


21 posted on 10/16/2022 1:24:00 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (4,257,324 active user on Truth Social)
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To: Timber Rattler

Sounds like the Nazi’s at the end of their run. They were killing anyone who was trying to get out and putting anyone and everyone they could in uniform, including even old men in their 60’s.


22 posted on 10/16/2022 1:24:11 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (We are rapidly gaining on the END of time on this earth. Come to Jesus now. Before it is to late.)
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To: Timber Rattler
Iran to send missiles and UAVs to Russia, Israel calls for military aid to Ukraine: the highlights of the day

23 posted on 10/16/2022 1:26:42 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: WMarshal

It is important to keep track of which sources hold up as the weeks and months pass, whose reporting that we read a month ago looks more accurate today, and whose reporting from 2 months ago held up when checked on a month later, and so on.


24 posted on 10/16/2022 1:27:06 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Organic Panic

Because of mission trips and distant relatives in Ukraine, I’ve spent time in the cities and especially villages outside the cities between 2008 and 2012. I saw very few children in the cities, and about 1 child in the villages. The ones I did see would be of fighting age now. Very few…


25 posted on 10/16/2022 1:28:11 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: WMarshal

Take it from NewsMax then, or any one of many other publications. Only an idiot would believe Russian propaganda.

Russia Grabs Men Off Street, Homeless Shelters to Fight in Ukraine
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/russia-street-ukraine/2022/10/16/id/1092095/


26 posted on 10/16/2022 1:31:59 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: Timber Rattler

smells like pure bs


27 posted on 10/16/2022 1:32:40 PM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: detch

Because it is.


28 posted on 10/16/2022 1:32:56 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Timber Rattler

Alexi is 30 and lives with his cat.

This is not going to be a good month for Alexi. Nor his cat.


29 posted on 10/16/2022 1:33:09 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: RetiredArmy

“The old men and children they send out to face us, they can’t slow us down”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjKajpMoUxM&t=57s


30 posted on 10/16/2022 1:38:27 PM PDT by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: WMarshal

Or from Australia. The report is being published around the world.

Russia is grabbing men off the street to fight in Ukraine
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/europe/russia-is-grabbing-men-off-the-street-to-fight-in-ukraine-20221017-p5bq8q.html


31 posted on 10/16/2022 1:39:04 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: Timber Rattler

“Cannon fodder, Cannon fodder!

“Get your Cannon fodder right here!

“Cannon fodder, Cannon fodder!


32 posted on 10/16/2022 1:43:02 PM PDT by DeFault User
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To: Timber Rattler
Russian occupiers evacuate property of banks, state institutions from Kherson – General Staff

33 posted on 10/16/2022 1:50:27 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: kiryandil

Ok so here is Breitbart. You realize you and Iran are on the same side?

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/10/16/irans-islamic-guards-training-russian-drone-crews-in-ukraine-report/


34 posted on 10/16/2022 1:50:38 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Timber Rattler

its the dogs timber,, the dogs they grabbing to fight in the ukraine... WaPo - LOL


35 posted on 10/16/2022 1:59:48 PM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: familyop

Just like the lies of “news agencies” Reuters and AP are spread around the world.


36 posted on 10/16/2022 2:00:36 PM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat.)
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To: Timber Rattler
This one's interesting. Russia has units that dig in behind the front lines. When Russian recruits run from the front line towards the rear, soldiers in the blocking units open fire and kill them. Commie tactics are so cool. Reminiscent of the human waves mowed down by our own soldiers in the past.

Ukraine’s SBU reveal Russian invader saying he is in a ‘blocking unit’ in Russian army

37 posted on 10/16/2022 2:01:02 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: detch
This reads like a propaganda piece to me...

These days, if it's about Ukraine, it's a propaganda piece.

38 posted on 10/16/2022 2:23:29 PM PDT by TChad (Progressives are in favor of removing healthy sex organs from children. Conservatives oppose this.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski; Organic Panic
I was going to say, if these reports are true then Russia is killing off the men would procreate the next generation.

They would be suffering the same fate that I've been speculating about the fentanyl crisis at our border:


It will be even worse when fentanyl kills off the next generation of recruits.

Our enemies are engaging in a long war aimed at killing the next generation of soldier, not our current army.

Remember when Donald Rumsfeld famously said "You go to war with the army you have, not the army you want to have?" Our enemies have twisted that into "You will go to war with the army you will have, not the army you have now."


If this story is true, Russia will not have an effective future army if they're busy killing off the current generation of baby-daddies.

-PJ

39 posted on 10/16/2022 2:32:26 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Timber Rattler
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com

Needless to say, that massive missile strikes by Russia continue all over 404 and there are reports of massive explosions and power outages in Nikolaev and other places, plus Kiev remains to be targeted. And, as was expected, all VSU attempts to perform "offensives" have been repelled with massive losses for VSU, including at Kremennaya and Svatovo (in Russian), but NATO--let's drop the pretense here--will try to throw as much cannon fodder at Russian formations as possible because they need something, like "breakthrough" in some sectors, because the Midterms are coming and Russians amassing troops for obvious things. Time is running out.

So, there are signs that the realization of grim reality begins to descend on Washington D.C.

I was on record for years--pardon me for my pleasure in reminding everyone--that NATO cannot fight a real war with the peer. Russia is not just the peer, Russia fields combat capabilities many of which are simply non-existent anywhere in NATO (US, of course, included). This becomes increasingly obvious both through operational and strategic incompetence of NATO planners and through admissions of such nature as by Austin or, if you read further, by:

Mark Cancian is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic & International Studies who spent seven years working on DOD procurement issues for the Office of Management and Budget. His assessment based on inventory levels, industrial capacity, and information from the Biden administration is that the U.S. has "limited" supplies of HIMARs, Javelins, Stingers and M-777 Howitzers. "There are some areas where we’re basically at the bottom of the barrel," he told Fox News Digital. In some cases, this means the U.S. will likely start meeting Ukraine’s request for weaponry by sending over lower-end substitutions, such as lighter Howitzers that are serviceable but not what Ukraine is after. In other cases, the U.S. may not have much to give – Cancian said that while there is talk of the U.S. providing more air defense equipment, there is not much the U.S. can give in that area. Cancian said he reads Austin comments as a sign that the days of the U.S. giving Ukraine its best stuff are gone.

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But this fast review may give you some glimpse into the "thinking" by NATO planners who need something, anything to show for their failed "offensives" and to somehow spin (to cover up, that is) an atrocious record of the US-made weaponry (plus from other lapdogs) in real combat conditions. There will be a talk about well documented utter failure of the US AGM-88 HARM missiles against Russian Air Defense, but we need to be patient and wait for the conclusion of the active part of SMO and with anti-terrorist operations by FSB and MVD coming at the forefront of this war. In the end, terrorism is the only type of war combined West excels at.

40 posted on 10/16/2022 2:33:07 PM PDT by Kazan
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