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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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To: meyer
I’d vote for Putin.

Got any other tyrants you really like?

41 posted on 10/16/2022 7:32:39 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: SheepWhisperer; meyer

Whatever happened to FR. In a couple of weeks, I’ll have been here 20 years. It’s unrecognizable.


42 posted on 10/16/2022 7:34:03 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Never worry about anything. Worry never solved any problem or moved any stone.)
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To: meyer
Russia didn’t start this war in 2014, the American federal leftist government, under Obama, did by installing a puppet government in Ukraine.

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?

43 posted on 10/16/2022 7:36:37 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: little jeremiah
Whatever happened to FR

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.

44 posted on 10/16/2022 7:39:04 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: SpeedyInTexas
In a Facebook post on Sunday, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said about 65,000 Russians had died since the full-scale invasion began on February 24. That's more dead than U.S. soldiers killed in a decade in Vietnam.

Makes sense because Russia is desperate now after their army of 190,000 troops during the invasion had been destroyed.

45 posted on 10/16/2022 7:42:19 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: little jeremiah
Whatever happened to FR. In a couple of weeks, I’ll have been here 20 years. It’s unrecognizable.

Could not agree more, but as a poster below wrote, I'm fairly certain much of this non-sense is paid troll work
46 posted on 10/16/2022 7:46:55 PM PDT by wareagle7295
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To: McGruff
Actually it is the sadness of families who have lost someone.

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.

47 posted on 10/16/2022 7:50:36 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: McGruff

The disgust level is high. Yet the war mongers on FR pile on.


48 posted on 10/16/2022 8:17:23 PM PDT by foundedonpurpose (raise Hashem, for his restoration of all things!)
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To: McGruff

Right out of the gate this article went off the track.


49 posted on 10/16/2022 8:28:42 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: Venkman

It’s not propaganda when it is VERIFIED BY RUSSIANS THEMSELVES IN PHONE CALLS SPEAKING TO OTHER RUSSIANS IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE.

Duuuuuuuuuuuhblublublub


50 posted on 10/16/2022 8:37:39 PM PDT by Vaden (Real conservatives will not allow our wagon to be hitched to fascist Russia)
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To: OldWarBaby

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.


51 posted on 10/16/2022 8:41:00 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (In politicians we get what we deserve, usually the best that money can buy, guaranteed.)
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To: Venkman

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.


52 posted on 10/16/2022 8:53:13 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: lodi90
i think when the dust clears we'll find the number of Ukrainian deaths far exceeds the Russian count.....which by the way the number of dead is not what wins conflicts - in this conflict especially.

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.

53 posted on 10/16/2022 9:02:25 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: little jeremiah
Thought this was a good depiction of Zelensky...lol...


54 posted on 10/16/2022 9:05:23 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: foundedonpurpose

They’re so easy to spot .


55 posted on 10/16/2022 9:06:35 PM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

It seems the good news is more young good looking Russian women will be available to live in the US.


56 posted on 10/17/2022 1:29:34 AM PDT by Herakles (Diversity is applied Marxism )
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To: SpeedyInTexas

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.


57 posted on 10/17/2022 1:38:47 AM PDT by Herakles (Diversity is applied Marxism )
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To: little jeremiah

I agree! Bunch of A-holes on here now.


58 posted on 10/17/2022 2:31:29 AM PDT by StayoutdaBushesWay (Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding)
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To: meyer

“I’d vote for Putin.’

Sad.


59 posted on 10/17/2022 3:38:48 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (RuZZia is the enemy of all mankind)
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To: McGruff

“Yanukovich fled the county “

He fled back to his native Russia


60 posted on 10/17/2022 5:01:26 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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