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Russian soldiers' wives want their men back, posing a rare challenge to Putin and his war in Ukraine
NBC News.com ^ | January 20, 2024 | Yuliya Talmazan

Posted on 01/20/2024 5:18:01 AM PST by Timber Rattler

In a rare challenge to the Kremlin, a growing number of Russian women are fighting to bring home their husbands, brothers and sons who were drafted to fight in Ukraine.

They say the men have served their time on the front lines, 15 months after some 300,000 reservists were called up to bolster Russia’s struggling campaign. But with little sign of President Vladimir Putin scaling back his ambitions, the military is ignoring their pleas and propagandists have sought to villainize those speaking out.

The women’s mounting frustration has bonded them together, providing common cause in their defiant public stand just months before Putin will extend his rule in an election.

NBC News spoke with a number of women who are part of a growing movement calling for their loved ones to be discharged and allowed to return to civilian life. They have emerged as among the few voices in Russia willing to publicly question how the Kremlin is conducting the war, which continues to reshape the country even as it descends into a stalemate.

Asya is one of those who is desperate for her husband to return home.

He was drafted in September 2022, she said, and is still in Ukraine serving in an artillery unit more than a year later.

She said she now fears her husband, who worked as a driver before he was called up, will be stuck there indefinitely.

“You try to dig yourself out of this pit every day and think, ‘How long can this carry on?’” Asya said, speaking on the phone from her home in the Moscow region. “How long can they mock us like this?”

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: conscript; mobiki; mtacniks; putin; wives; yuliyatalmazan
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To: Timber Rattler
Russian soldiers' wives want their men back...

Unlike the Ukrainian wives?
What a stupid article.

21 posted on 01/20/2024 6:37:05 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: TangoLimaSierra
Unlike the Russians, those Ukrainian soldiers are in their own country, fighting for their freedom.

See the difference?
22 posted on 01/20/2024 6:39:15 AM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: JonPreston

So you’re finally publicly standing with Putin now, eh?


23 posted on 01/20/2024 6:45:04 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." --George Washington)
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To: canuck_conservative

Yeah, that’s their latest tactic to try and shut down threads and silence pro-Ukraine posters and commenters, by crying “wolf” and invoking admin and the site owner. Pretty cowardly.


24 posted on 01/20/2024 6:47:02 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." --George Washington)
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To: Timber Rattler; Allegra; bimboeruption; dforest; Rocco DiPippo; tennmountainman
Multiplezeepers-2

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To be added to the zeeper follies pinglist, ping me bro... 
we need laughter!

25 posted on 01/20/2024 6:58:14 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: mac_truck

+1 Well Done!


26 posted on 01/20/2024 6:58:54 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: mac_truck



27 posted on 01/20/2024 6:59:05 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian vermin out!!)
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To: All
sorry, here it is, more readable -




28 posted on 01/20/2024 7:00:43 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian vermin out!!)
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To: dforest

Any mention of the egg situation or broken water mains in ZeeperWorld™ today?


29 posted on 01/20/2024 7:02:41 AM PST by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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To: Apparatchik
See the difference?

The only difference might be that the front line Uke soldiers are so old that their old wives wouldn't want them back.

30 posted on 01/20/2024 7:06:00 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Take me off your stupid ping list.


31 posted on 01/20/2024 7:21:05 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." --George Washington)
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To: Timber Rattler

You are not on the Amazing Zeeper Follies Ping List, since you never requested to be added.

You posted an open thread, so replies to your thread go to you

Simple as that.


32 posted on 01/20/2024 7:29:17 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Timber Rattler

If Putin doesn’t meet their demands, they will go back online as beautiful Russian brides to Americans again.


33 posted on 01/20/2024 7:38:17 AM PST by Marko413
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To: Rocco DiPippo

Deflect, divert, ridicule… [yawn]


34 posted on 01/20/2024 7:55:53 AM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Maybe, but at any rate, they want their country back.


35 posted on 01/20/2024 7:57:02 AM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: Marko413

36 posted on 01/20/2024 8:02:04 AM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: Timber Rattler
Rus Advances, Ukr Retreats, FT: Ukr Losing Krynky, Medvedev: End Ukr State
37 posted on 01/20/2024 8:38:36 AM PST by Kazan
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To: Timber Rattler; canuck_conservative; aMorePerfectUnion; mac_truck; dforest; TangoLimaSierra; ...

>Yeah, that’s their latest tactic to try and shut down threads and silence pro-Ukraine posters and commenters, by crying “wolf” and invoking admin and the site owner. Pretty cowardly.<

I don’t think Jim would issue warnings and pull threads unless he had a good reason.

Like this one: https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4211357/reply?c=29


38 posted on 01/20/2024 8:48:03 AM PST by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: bimboeruption

What was the name of that thread?


39 posted on 01/20/2024 8:49:48 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

>What was the name of that thread?<

Horrifying Moments! How Russia Loses 1,100 Soldiers, 24 Tanks, 36 AFVs, Two Planes in 24 hours


40 posted on 01/20/2024 9:05:49 AM PST by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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