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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?”
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Unlike the Ukrainian wives?
What a stupid article.
So you’re finally publicly standing with Putin now, eh?
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.
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The only difference might be that the front line Uke soldiers are so old that their old wives wouldn't want them back.
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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.
If Putin doesn’t meet their demands, they will go back online as beautiful Russian brides to Americans again.
Deflect, divert, ridicule… [yawn]
Maybe, but at any rate, they want their country back.
>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
What was the name of that thread?
>What was the name of that thread?<
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