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  • Parents of Russian Conscripts Fear Their Sons Will Be Pressured Into Joining The War In Ukraine

    07/06/2022 11:39:45 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 13 replies
    RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service ^ | July 02, 2022 | Reid Standish
    Five months into Russia's war on Ukraine, the Kremlin still hasn’t decreed a general mobilization to draft troops for its invasion, but there are growing reports that it is enticing and pressuring men of fighting age to join, as well as leaning on younger conscripts to sign contracts so they can deploy to the front. In Bashkortostan -- a Russian republic located some 1,300 kilometers east of Moscow -- many parents of conscripts have launched appeals to the local military prosecutor's office over complaints that their sons were illegally detained at the conscription office and were told that they would...