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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
PortTack
(32,809 posts)sanatanadharma
(3,740 posts)"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)Wouldn't surprise me if he nuke the whole bunch once they arrive in Ukraine. He's nucking futs.