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Posted on 03/13/2023 2:00:56 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A group of Russian wives and mothers have called on President Vladimir Putin to stop sending their husbands and sons “to the slaughter” by forcing them to join assault groups without adequate training or supplies.
In a video shared by the independent Russian Telegram channel SOTA, the women said their loved ones had been “forced to join assault groups” at the beginning of March despite having just four days training since their mobilization in September.
The video shows the women holding a sign in Russian that reads, “580 Separate Howitzer Artillery Division,” dated March 11, 2023.
“My husband… is located on the line of contact with the enemy,” says one woman in the recording.
“Our mobilized [men] are being sent like lambs to the slaughter to storm fortified areas – five at a time, against 100 heavily armed enemy men,” she continued.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Sure Russia wants to cease to exist by nuking NATO.
How do you know it isn’t valid?
They never tell anything from the Ukraine side except to squeal “war crime war crime” or tell some BS tale like “The Ghost of Kiev”.
We practically know every time a Russian takes a pee with these guys.
LOL. Straight from Putin’s desk.
It is your fact that you claim and are using, how is it that you don’t know where it came from?
There is no source, it’s a Russian talking point that started appearing on various sites a few days ago.
It’s usually coupled with a line about how the center is only being held by 500 Ukrainian soldiers who are constantly replenished every four hours as they all become KIA, ie, 2000 Ukrainian deaths in Bakhmut daily. It’s interesting to see how this “four hour” line started appearing.
In a video shared by the independent Russian Telegram channel SOTA
Further shared by CNN, a network famed for reporting "live, on location" from a green screen.
SOTA has an interesting history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sota.vision
HISTORYThe website was launched in 2015 by Alexandra Ageeva and Oleg Elanchik, who later became its editor in chief. Later in 2015, SOTA was officially registered as a certified media outlet, and the company soon started its own social media accounts.[7]
The site mainly covers protests inside the country. SOTA's biggest focus is the opposition agenda, both in the capital and beyond.[8]
Sota.vision has a vast network of reporters operating not only in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, but the other regions of Russia.
The resource also collaborates with a large journalist pool stationed outside the country, for example, in Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Poland, Ukraine and the USA. Its reporters cover mainly anti-military and protest themes related to Russia.
SOTA was the only media broadcasting global rallies in support of Alexey Navalny, which took place in more than 60 spots around the world.[9][10] Prosecution
On the 26th of November 2021, Oleg Elanchik, chief editor, was proclaimed a foreign agent, a status close to extremism in modern Russia.[11]
During a live broadcast on Septemer 2022 from the streets in Moscow, Artem Kriger, a journalist at the SOTA news site, was given a draft summons after being arrested while covering anti-mobilisation protests in Moscow.[12]
On February 11, 2022, Sota.vision founder Alexandra Ageeva also became a foreign agent.[13]
In October 2022, acting editor in chief of the SOTA publication, politician Yevgeny Domozhirov, was put on the wanted list.[14]
In January 2023 police in Moscow detained the two reporters Sota.vision while they reported on a local government meeting. Authorities accused the journalists of disrupting the meeting and charged them with disorderly conduct. Next day, a Moscow court ordered them both to be detained for 15 days. This is the maximum penalty under the Russian administrative code.[15]
BREAKUP AND CRISIS
Because of plausible prosecution, Alexandra Ageeva took the decision to move to Riga. By this time SOTA had already gained over 300.000 followers and significantly extended its reporters’ network, with 40 people collaborating with the project.[16]
In May 2022, Alexey Obukhov, a former employee, refused to return access to a number of resources of the publication, which was temporarily entrusted to him by the owner due to the move.[17][18]
On May 28, 2022, a statement about the division of the editorial board appeared on the SOTA telegram channel. This unilateral statement was made after the owner, editor-in-chief and other employees were removed from the admins of the Telegram channel.
On June 19, 2022, a SOTA editorial statement «They didn’t share the orange, it was just with ... shared» was published about the seizure of resources of the publication.[19]
However, by the summer of 2022, SOTA partly regained its resources (except Telegram) with the aid of major social media companies like Twitter, TikTok, Facebook and new telegram.[19]
You would think no one here was paying attention to the twitter files or watched any of Matt Taibbi’s and Michael Schellenberger’s congressional testimony.
It’s propaganda spread by CNN. “independent”? BS.
Maybe a little more sophisticated than NAFO, maybe not.
Here’s the daily fix of surely Russia will give up any day now...just keep sending money!
Russians drink vodka and they have to pee all the time because of that you know....sarc
The population of dictatorial regimes is expendable to their leadership.
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