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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: SheepWhisperer

Great Bio there...


61 posted on 10/17/2022 6:02:15 AM PDT by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
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To: InkStone

=o)


62 posted on 10/17/2022 7:00:55 AM 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: Vaden

Duuuuuuuuuuuuhbluubblyb yourself, clown.

It’s propaganda. Maybe you don’t know what propaganda is. Too bad you can’t recognize it.


63 posted on 10/17/2022 7:24:47 AM PDT by Venkman
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To: StayoutdaBushesWay

Paid shills, mental cases, and probably some bots.


64 posted on 10/17/2022 7:47:26 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Never worry about anything. Worry never solved any problem or moved any stone.)
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To: meyer

That is a very tired excuse for Russia invading and conquering Ukraine.


65 posted on 10/17/2022 9:19:42 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Venkman

It’s propaganda. Maybe you don’t know what propaganda is. Too bad you can’t recognize it.

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Let me make a slight correction:

“It’s propagnda. They know what propaganda is because they are doing pushing it knowingly and very likely paid to do so.”

There. (dusting off hands)


66 posted on 10/17/2022 10:53:14 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Never worry about anything. Worry never solved any problem or moved any stone.)
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To: MeganC; meyer

Tired, but true. Truth doesn’t change because of anyone’s biases, beliefs, or wishes and dreams.


67 posted on 10/17/2022 10:54:01 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Never worry about anything. Worry never solved any problem or moved any stone.)
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To: Sunsong; SheepWhisperer; meyer

But the Nazis and criminals in Urkaine and the fact that it has been a well known hub of sex slave trafficking, baby trafficking drug trafficking, and killing and repressing Russian speaking Ukrainians since at 2014, and a money laundering pit of corruption hand in glove with corrupt politicians and big names in the UK and US means nothing to you?


68 posted on 10/17/2022 10:57:11 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Never worry about anything. Worry never solved any problem or moved any stone.)
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To: freeandfreezing; SheepWhisperer; meyer

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.

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Actually the reverse. The pro-Ukronazis are on the side of who hate Russia:

Klaus Schwab and the WEF
The entire Bitem gang and corrupt people he’s installed
Soros
The entire Demshevik Party
All globalists
All Fake Media
The corrupt UK government
Many slimeball EU governments (not the people!)

People are known by the company they keep. The list above is not complete, there are other entities such as bio-research companies who have been trying to make bioweapons in Ukraine.


69 posted on 10/17/2022 11:02:39 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Never worry about anything. Worry never solved any problem or moved any stone.)
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To: caww

That stings.....


70 posted on 10/17/2022 11:06:48 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Never worry about anything. Worry never solved any problem or moved any stone.)
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To: little jeremiah

My neighbor aggressively supports Joe Biden. He also put up a provocative security fence to keep me out. Then he bought a shotgun just in case I were to go over to his place. It’s very provocative.

With Russian logic I suppose I now have an excuse to murder my neighbor and annex his property.


71 posted on 10/17/2022 11:13:45 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Redmen4ever

How does a Russian soldier know what his wife back home is up to?

He asks her boyfriend.


72 posted on 10/18/2022 8:44:30 AM PDT by Callahan ( )
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To: Callahan

How did Venezuela solve the toilet paper shortage?

By running out of food.

Alternate: How did Venezuela solve the toilet paper shortage?

By having so much inflation, you could use their paper currency instead.

How did Russia solve their toilet paper shortage?

By sending all their ass holes to Ukraine.


73 posted on 10/18/2022 9:16:26 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: SheepWhisperer

Nicaragua and North Korea agree with you!


74 posted on 10/18/2022 3:21:38 PM PDT by nbenyo
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To: nbenyo

EVERY Democrat agrees with you and you agree with every democRAT.

You’re known by the company you keep rat


75 posted on 10/18/2022 4:00:47 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: SheepWhisperer

Every commie thug agrees with you. You want to reverse Ronald Reagan’s legacy!


76 posted on 10/19/2022 3:04:48 AM PDT by nbenyo
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To: nbenyo

move along rat


77 posted on 10/19/2022 7:06:46 AM 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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