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While I have no doubt Russia's own recruiting tactics are brutal, those videos we're seeing on social media of 55-year-old Ukrainians being forcibly conscribed by the Ukrainian Army are all too real.
1 posted on 02/28/2023 4:45:00 AM PST by hcmama
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already posted yesterday

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4134375/posts

(search still works)


2 posted on 02/28/2023 4:46:57 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - keeping Europe Russian-free for 75 years ... you're welcome)
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This is also quite the admission from the Guardian:

“In December Ukraine’s top soldier, Valery Zaluzhny, told The Economist there was no immediate need for massive mobilisation; his main problems were armour and munitions. Sources within the general staff insist that is still the case. Moreover, there are natural limits to the numbers of soldiers Ukraine can absorb, says Viktor Kevlyuk, a reserve colonel. “You can’t mobilise 6,000 if your training ranges can only hold 3,000,” he says.”

“But force ratios, which once favoured Ukraine, have since tilted back towards Russia, which has mobilised at least 250,000 men since September. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s military leadership has been charged with building a reserve in advance of an expected counter-offensive. New Western hardware is arriving, and it needs to be manned. And heavy attrition rates in close-contact fighting on the eastern front, around the embattled town of Bakhmut, need to be balanced with new men.”


3 posted on 02/28/2023 4:47:35 AM PST by hcmama
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Who wants to die in the Russian meatgrinder?


8 posted on 02/28/2023 5:05:42 AM PST by Tom Tetroxide
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Have you seen the video of them trying to serve summons on an 85 yr old man?
He called them f***** morons ….they answered “ Well, are you alive?”

And the video of the screaming mother as they grab her 16 and 17 yr old sons?

The video of where they shove away the little boy trying to stop them from grabbing his Dad?

This finally made it to the mainstream media


9 posted on 02/28/2023 5:08:33 AM PST by silverleaf (“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
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It has been pointed out that many of the Ukrainian ‘stars of YouTube’ have fled the country, to avoid the draft.

I’m not going to criticize, living through constant shelling and waiting for the one with your name on it must be hellish. I cannot imagine how it must feel to sit in a trench and wait for the gunners to zero in on your location.

In short, they’re running out of people who want to pick up a gun.


10 posted on 02/28/2023 5:11:34 AM PST by Not_Who_U_Think
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More signs that Ukraine is crumbling.

You can’t fiat print an army or competent/un corrupted leadership


11 posted on 02/28/2023 5:11:42 AM PST by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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After looking at the picture in the article I have determined that a large percentage of Ukrainian soldiers are left handed.


12 posted on 02/28/2023 5:29:53 AM PST by radmanptn
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Ruslan Kubay is probably an ethnic Russian, hence their fervor to genocide him


13 posted on 02/28/2023 5:37:27 AM PST by Tacticalman
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Thee question of the hour....


14 posted on 02/28/2023 5:47:46 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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If you are a 55 year old peasant and you find youself drafted into WW1.5 by FJB’s Ukrainian money launderers, just be sure you get issued enough ammo to work your way back up the chain-of-command.


17 posted on 02/28/2023 6:12:43 AM PST by Theophilus (It's fake and defective)
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I just want to know WHERE Zelensky is gonna go, once the dust settles with all this.

Former leaders who have outlived their usefulness are a real sticky commodity! For sure he will not be safe or even welcome in the US!

With all his ill gotten gains, he'd be the odd man out where ever he wants to go. He won't be able to afford his personal security forever.

21 posted on 02/28/2023 6:42:59 AM PST by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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Rough tactics? Anyone that has seen the videos of the Ukrainians wrestling conscripts to the ground know that is mild way of putting it.
25 posted on 02/28/2023 9:14:40 AM PST by Kazan
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