- Russia is replenishing its troops with an unlikely source — African migrants and students.
- Thousands of Africans have been forced to join in Russia’s war against Ukraine, per Bloomberg.
- The country has also been plugging its manpower gaps by sending prison inmates to the battlefield.
He burns whatever he can to avoid touching people in Moscow or St.Petersburg, because that would hit back.
He gets away with it, which is why he’s doing it. Once other countries close their borders to Russia, the blood fued to retake Crimea will become very real to Russians.
Lmao. Students. Nice. That’ll earn you support.
Okay so they’ve used up half of their prisoners and are now forcing students into the military?
“In fact, Russia has recruited so many inmates that it has started to close down some of its prisons.”
There’s no way that they have this troops reserve number that is touted.
Putin’s getting his ass kicked.
I’m hoping you’re right. What I could imagine is that he just wants to burn through the prisoners since if they don’t make it back, that’s less prison costs. So even if he has reserve troops available, he’d rather use prisoners first.
Some African workers have even been threatened with deportation if they do not agree to fight in Ukraine, one European official told Bloomberg.
I wonder how many choose deportation as the least worst option, or whether they’re really given the choice.
Plot twist: they are deported to Ukraine.
A separate thread about that would have been appreciated. It’s something terrible that should be called out, but posting it as a response to this is like replying: “Ok, and??? Some people of the country they’re invading are horrible anyway.”
Its not a ‘ok, and’ it’s pointing out the team you are cheering for is doing the same thing as the team you vilify
They’re invading an innocent country and raping, torturing and butchering innocent families? Nah, both sides aren’t the same.
Stay in topic, this thread is about conscription
Yes, and conscription for defense is not the same thing as conscription for invasion and occupation.
Whatever helps you sleep at night
Wild that this got downvoted. I guess pressganging men into combat is only bad when da ruskies do it?
They don’t like to hear that their team is doing the same thing they claim only the other team does
Brought to us by the same people that claimed Russia was fighting with WWII shovels, end of war is near, sanctions will kill the Russian economy, etc.
- names itself anticolonialist
- Defends Russian colonization of Ukraine
- Fails to cope
For real, this oligarch capitalist website stinks of propaganda. I only believe substack links.
That’s what happens when shitlibs take over leftist spaces.
Shitlibs more like shitlips
