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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,304 posts)
Sat Sep 24, 2022, 02:23 PM Sep 2022

Complaints about Russia's chaotic mobilization grow louder

LONDON (Reuters) - The stridently pro-Kremlin editor of Russia's state-run RT news channel expressed anger on Saturday that enlistment officers were sending call-up papers to the wrong men, as frustration about a military mobilisation grew across Russia.

Wednesday's announcement of Russia's first public mobilisation since World War Two, to shore up its faltering invasion of Ukraine, has triggered a rush for the border by eligible men, the arrests of over 1,000 protesters, and unease in the wider population.

Now, it is also attracting criticism of the authorities from among the Kremlin's own official supporters, something almost unheard of in Russia since the invasion began seven months ago.

"It has been announced that privates can be recruited up to the age of 35. Summonses are going to 40-year-olds," the RT editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan, railed on her Telegram channel.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/complaints-russias-chaotic-mobilisation-grow-152049450.html

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Complaints about Russia's chaotic mobilization grow louder (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2022 OP
The russian ppl were supportive of their criminal leader and the war, now they have to fight..nah! PortTack Sep 2022 #1
Maga-mind sounds familiar, "... but they're hurting us, not the 'right people' sanatanadharma Sep 2022 #2
One wonders whether Putin is ethnic cleansing his whole Federation intrepidity Sep 2022 #3

sanatanadharma

(3,740 posts)
2. Maga-mind sounds familiar, "... but they're hurting us, not the 'right people'
Sat Sep 24, 2022, 03:04 PM
Sep 2022

"The stridently pro-Kremlin editor of Russia's state-run RT news channel expressed anger on Saturday that enlistment officers were sending call-up papers to the wrong men, ..." (my emphasis)

Who are the right men? Likely all those poor and ethnic masses of long ago conquered others in the vast fly-over country on the way to Kamchatka Peninsula.

intrepidity

(7,339 posts)
3. One wonders whether Putin is ethnic cleansing his whole Federation
Sat Sep 24, 2022, 03:25 PM
Sep 2022

Wouldn't surprise me if he nuke the whole bunch once they arrive in Ukraine. He's nucking futs.

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