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.
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And your friends are commies, North Korea and Nicaragua.
Russia started this war in 2014.
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You mean when Victoria Nuland, George Soros and dirty politicians in the US engineered the Color Revolution in Ukraine and ousted the elected president and installed their puppet. Then the games began, and Ukraine started (Or ramped up) war on the eastern Russian speaking regions of Ukraine.
We’re not all swill swallowing Demshevik fake news believers on FR>
Not just cookies, lots and lots of $$$$!
You’re filled with empty rhetoric, feints of a fool and propaganda.
Fifty cent army YOU.
Greta gasbag opinions
Fake doctor gassy propaganda medical “opinions”
This morning’s pooping flushed
Your opinions
...things of which I don’t care, or give a second thought
YOUR friends are the enemy of this forum and the Patriots herein.
Sounds like you’re upset that nobody wants to hear your Putinist garbage.
sounds like you’re on the side of the leftists.including Biden, his son and the rest of the rats as you spout their talking points. You’re known by the company you keep, rat.
Russia didn’t start this war in 2014, the American federal leftist government, under Obama, did by installing a puppet government in Ukraine. One that regularly shelled Russian-speaking residents in the east part of the country.
Russia isn’t the bad guy here. We might be though, or at least our federal government is.
Never saw that before.
I just cannot believe that this one woman has so much influence on things.
A woman who is wrong, terribly wrong, on Jerusalem. And evasive.
I agree
putin won’t hesitate to kill anyone
the sooner he is out of power, however it happens
the better for all of us
he is a threat to the entire world, to all humanity, imo
😆
“Russia isn’t the bad guy here.”
Really?
RuZZia invaded with 190,000 troops who kill, rape and torture.
Got a chuckle. Good job.
“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.”
How’s the weather in RuZZia?
When you can’t deny the facts at hand just call it propaganda. Such a predictable game.
The propaganda IS getting deep. Don’t be a lemming.
Actually, the facts are becoming obvious and “deep”. Russians have died by the thousands in Ukraine over the past 8 months because their army is corrupt and a Potemkin fake.
Rather than admit that and change our world view we will just continue in fantasyland where everything we don’t like is propaganda.
“Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results.” — Narcotics Anonymous [misattributed to Einstein]
You really need to read something besides the government-controlled mainstream US media.
I’ll put it so simply that even a democRAT can understand - if Putin were running against Biden or any other democrat for President of the US, I’d vote for Putin.
If that bothers you, too freakin’ bad.
Handing out cookies is interfering "in the affairs of a sovereign country".
That really is an idiotic concept.
Patriots don’t shill for foreign tyrants like Putin.
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