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Can Ukraine stop the flood of soldiers deserting the frontlines?
DW News ( Deutsche Welle) via Youtube ^ | 11/21/2024 | Staff

Posted on 11/21/2024 3:28:25 PM PST by Its All Over Except ...

Ukraine is struggling to fill its ranks on the eastern frontline, in part because of a sharp increase in the number of desertions - more than 30.000 this year alone. This has prompted the government to decriminalise the offence for first-time offenders, allowing them to avoid jail if they return to duty.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: biden; bidenbois4ww3; ohnoes; ohyeahmediabeenlying; putin; russia; tothelastukrainian; ukraine; war; zelensky

1 posted on 11/21/2024 3:28:25 PM PST by Its All Over Except ...
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Multiple videos at X show people in Ukraine being snagged off the streets for military duty, but other videos, one from about a month ago, show people partying in western Ukraine.

If they were carted off to war though, then who would sip the wine?


2 posted on 11/21/2024 3:29:26 PM PST by Its All Over Except ...
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They put everyone with Russian heritage at the front lines and everyone with Ukrainian heritage in the back.

Now they have no more front


3 posted on 11/21/2024 3:32:52 PM PST by struggle
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The war will be over in January. There will be a ceasefire.

Putin has all the momentum. So he'll probably demand Zelensky to withdraw troops from Kursk and the end to sanctions from the West.

Otherwise, no ceasefire.

That's my guess.

4 posted on 11/21/2024 3:33:45 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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Old Soviet trick: line up machine guns behind the soldiers and shoot anyone who tries to get away.

Motivation and Morale, comrade.


5 posted on 11/21/2024 3:39:43 PM PST by lurk (u)
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Don't worry - firing American and British long-range missiles at targets inside Russia may risk Armageddon, but it balances out the 51,000+ Ukrainian desertions this year, and more than makes up for the half million soldiers they don't have. /sarc

About 51,000 Ukrainians Have Deserted Armed Forces This Year

Ukraine needs 500,000 more troops amid slowing mobilization, senior lawmaker says

6 posted on 11/21/2024 3:43:19 PM PST by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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The Zeepers are willing to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian life.

Not the last Zeeper life, just the last Ukrainian life.


7 posted on 11/21/2024 3:48:18 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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They put everyone with Russian heritage at the front lines and everyone with Ukrainian heritage in the back. Now they have no more front

You unintentionally confirmed that the invasion of Ukraine was not an unprovoked attack, but partially a response to the continuous shelling/murder of the Russian speaking areas/people of Ukraine since the 2014 CIA/Victoria Nuland color revolution.

8 posted on 11/21/2024 4:18:07 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
You unintentionally confirmed

Everything I do is unintentional and accidental. That's how I roll. Doctors can't figure me out.

9 posted on 11/21/2024 4:29:22 PM PST by BipolarBob (Our prodigal Haitian son has returned!! Prepare the fatted cat.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And the last American life from WW3!


10 posted on 11/21/2024 4:36:11 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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They would probably opt for jail .... they would live longer than the 4 hours on the front lines.


11 posted on 11/21/2024 4:45:37 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (We used to be a Republic, we are now a Fascist Klepto-Thugocracy. until Jan 20, 2025)
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Since this is from Deutsche Welle, one wonders what their op-ed will be when German youth don;t want to join the front lines in the land war in Ukraine.
12 posted on 11/21/2024 4:57:15 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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Your moniker is the perfect name for this thread!


13 posted on 11/21/2024 5:17:35 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Exactly !!!! 👍👍👍

I pray every deserting Ukie soldier makes it out unharmed.
I also hope the little grifter will eventually be handed over to the dead soldiers families.


14 posted on 11/21/2024 5:35:17 PM PST by ANKE69 (✌️🇺🇲 Let's MAGA)
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Who wants to be the last one to die in this senseless war?


15 posted on 11/21/2024 6:28:32 PM PST by Obadiah
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I agree wholeheartedly. Biden, Sullivan, Nuland, and most of the upper State Dept retards need to receive the same date as the 500k Ukrainian men that died thinking they were actually fighting for their homeland and not a deep state psyop


16 posted on 11/21/2024 6:32:28 PM PST by struggle
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Could be that pep talk the General Daluzhny gave the troops the other day has something to do with that.

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https://youtu.be/iXN14Oww3cU?si=n6rKr7KOVFS7Mq8o&t=970

17 posted on 11/21/2024 7:50:22 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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But.....I thought Ukraine was kicking Putin’s ass?


18 posted on 11/21/2024 11:18:45 PM PST by MagaMatt (Sapere aude.)
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They don’t pay their soldiers on time if at all, they don’t feed them properly, and their medical support sucks. At the same time, children of the elite do not have to serve.


19 posted on 11/22/2024 4:31:32 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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They don’t pay their soldiers on time if at all, they don’t feed them properly, and their medical support sucks. At the same time, children of the elite do not have to serve.


20 posted on 11/22/2024 4:32:56 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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