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‘My son has died’: Russia mourns loss of first drafted soldiers in Ukraine
The Guardian ^ | 15-OCT-2022 | Andrew Roth

Posted on 10/16/2022 4:36:48 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas

Andrei Nikiforov, a lawyer from St Petersburg, was one of the hundreds of thousands of Russians mobilised since last month to hold the frontlines in his country’s faltering war in Ukraine.

On 25 September he received his call-up papers. By 7 October, just two weeks later, he was dead.

“We don’t know what happened,” said Alexander Zelensky, the head of the Nevsky Collegium of Lawyers, of which Nikiforov was a member. Zelensky and a member of Nikiforov’s family confirmed his call-up and death. “All we have is a date and a place.”

That place was Lysychansk, one of the most dangerous spots near the frontlines.

The first coffins are now returning to Russia from Ukraine, bringing the remains of ordinary Russians who at first were promised a quick “special military operation” and now have been drafted to go and fight in a war. Their deaths may mark another inflection point for Russia in this conflict, where mismanagement has led to Kremlin infighting and at least half a million men have been drafted or fled their homes to avoid it.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


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1 posted on 10/16/2022 4:36:48 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
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To: SpeedyInTexas

The propaganda is getting deep.


2 posted on 10/16/2022 4:43:17 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

“and its 1,2,3 what are we fightin for?
don’t ask me i don’t give a damn, the next stop is Viet-Ukraine.
and its 5,6,7 open up the pearly gates. Well there aint no time to wonder why...WHOPEE we’re all gunna die.


3 posted on 10/16/2022 4:52:36 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: McGruff

Eat it you Russian stooge.


4 posted on 10/16/2022 4:54:09 PM PDT by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold.)
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To: Destroyer Sailor

“Eat it you Russian stooge.”

The propaganda IS getting deep. Don’t be a lemming.


5 posted on 10/16/2022 4:59:23 PM PDT by Venkman
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To: McGruff

Way deep.


6 posted on 10/16/2022 5:00:42 PM PDT by waterhill (Resist)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

putin doesn’t care about the russian people

obviously, he is serving his ego

putin is evil!


7 posted on 10/16/2022 5:01:56 PM PDT by Sunsong
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To: McGruff

Hey Ivan, why don’t Russian tanks run on vodka?

Because the crew drank it all.

Did you here about the Russian soldier who killed 14 and wounded another 23?

Yeah, and that was just training camp.

In Stalin’s day, Russian troops were ordered into battle with only half armed with weapons.

Nowadays, Russian troops are ordered into battle with only half wearing uniforms.

In the Russian army, troops complain, the food is poison and we’re not given enough.

What is the goal in life of a Russian soldier?

To find an adapter so they can plug in their Ukrainian washing machine.


8 posted on 10/16/2022 5:04:58 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: SpeedyInTexas

9 posted on 10/16/2022 5:04:59 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Lol


10 posted on 10/16/2022 5:08:38 PM PDT by waterhill (Resist)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

So a Russian lawyer died? looking, looking, searching or the downside. My givearip meter has flatlined.


11 posted on 10/16/2022 5:13:49 PM PDT by OldWarBaby
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To: SpeedyInTexas

How much do you get paid for each post on behalf of the leftists in the US?

Your fiends. Pelosi,..et al


12 posted on 10/16/2022 5:14:28 PM PDT by SheepWhisperer ("Stone is heavy and sand a burdern, but the provocations of a fool are heavier than both" PRO 27:3)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Blame Putin.


13 posted on 10/16/2022 5:22:08 PM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: Sunsong

You’re absolutely correct, Putin is a dictator and a killer.


14 posted on 10/16/2022 5:23:04 PM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: SheepWhisperer

I don’t consider people on the Left to be a friend, and Putin still stinks. His personal war against Ukraine makes him look like a fool. His vaunted army is junk.


15 posted on 10/16/2022 5:25:19 PM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: popdonnelly

...yet you post/spout articles supporting the leftist narrative.

#thinkBEFOREyoupost


16 posted on 10/16/2022 5:28:22 PM PDT by SheepWhisperer ("Stone is heavy and sand a burdern, but the provocations of a fool are heavier than both" PRO 27:3)
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To: SpeedyInTexas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry51OGhVPlU&t=3s

Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for October 15, 2022

- Elon Musk placed temporarily on notorious Ukrainian kill list;
- US aid to Ukraine continues to dwindle;
- NATO air defense project spans years and unlikely to help Ukraine in short-term;
- Ukraine's offensives are increasingly depleted quickening arrival at inflection point when irreversible Russian advances begin;

17 posted on 10/16/2022 5:33:08 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: McGruff

The propaganda started when Russia started this war in 2014.


18 posted on 10/16/2022 5:34:22 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: MeganC

False!
John McCain
Hunter Biden
Looney Graham
Isis in uk

WAY before your flimflam claim.
The entire UK.is corrupt and THIS is the side you choose.

Propaganda is YOU


19 posted on 10/16/2022 5:38:03 PM PDT by SheepWhisperer ("Stone is heavy and sand a burdern, but the provocations of a fool are heavier than both" PRO 27:3)
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To: MeganC
Wrong, this is when the war in Ukraine started.


20 posted on 10/16/2022 5:44:25 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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