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 ...
Got any other tyrants you really like?
Whatever happened to FR. In a couple of weeks, I’ll have been here 20 years. It’s unrecognizable.
That sentence is full of false statements, but even if the USA did install a government in Ukraine it was Russia in 2014 who sent in soldiers and artillery and armor and started a war.
From what the Putin fan club posts it seems like Russians have no free will. They are always "forced" to do things like start wars, kill people, rape teenagers, etc.
Is the Russian government so dumb that they just respond like robots to the world around them?
It has been flooded with pro-Russian propaganda posters. Some are on the Russian govt. payroll, some are just misinformed Americans, and some are so wrapped up in their fears of what they remember as a powerful Russia that they would rather surrender to Putin out of fear than consider the world as it is today.
Makes sense because Russia is desperate now after their army of 190,000 troops during the invasion had been destroyed.
The four men listed in this article lasted less than two weeks from when they were conscripted. They boarded the buses on September 26th, and were killed in combat by Oct. 7th.
Alexander Pomigalov, 23
Igor Puchkov, 27
Ivan Pukhov, 41
Alexandr Parilov, 36
What a waste of lives.
You can call it propaganda if you want, but the article was published in Russia.
The disgust level is high. Yet the war mongers on FR pile on.
Right out of the gate this article went off the track.
It’s not propaganda when it is VERIFIED BY RUSSIANS THEMSELVES IN PHONE CALLS SPEAKING TO OTHER RUSSIANS IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE.
Duuuuuuuuuuuhblublublub
So a Russian lawyer died? looking, looking, searching or the downside. .................. Maybe we can help, send some of ours to replace him? Start with the ones in congress.
The author ‘Andrew Roth’ has always opposed Russia in his writings so it’s fair to at least call the article one sided. Clearly his choice of words shows his bias.
This war will only end in negotiating and as I see it neither Zelensky nor Joe Biden are the least bit eager to stop the death count. They both should be off the table for negotiating and let Europeans Negotiate with Russia.
They’re so easy to spot .
It seems the good news is more young good looking Russian women will be available to live in the US.
Actually that was a problem in the old soviet airforce in the far east. Alcohol was used in some hydraulic lines and there was a ratio of jet fuel to Alcohol that had to be maintained resulting in the need to dump jet fuel so as to cover up the fact that they were drinking the alcohol.
I agree! Bunch of A-holes on here now.
“I’d vote for Putin.’
Sad.
“Yanukovich fled the county “
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He fled back to his native Russia
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