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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThousands Of Men Are Fleeing Russia
Why? Putin issued a draft for at least 300,000 men to fight in Ukraine. Some Russian men have paid to get a positive HIV diagnosis to avoid the draft. 10's of thousands are fleeing.
Putin is the man who Krasnov aspires to be.
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Thousands Of Men Are Fleeing Russia (Original Post)
gab13by13
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True Dough
(23,780 posts)1. So much blood on his hands. So many senseless deaths
He'll go down as one of history's true monsters.
Lovie777
(19,466 posts)2. Since the Ukrainian attack............................
Biophilic
(5,911 posts)3. What Ukrainian attack?
LetMyPeopleVote
(166,964 posts)4. Putin is killing a ton of his citizens
Igel
(37,023 posts)5. Sounds like the usual conscription, just spread out instead of at two particular points in time.
Presumably to catch those coming of age for conscription earlier rather than waiting until they're all 6 months or less old.
Unclear that the totals are somehow changing, apart from fluctuations in population of that age.
https://kyivindependent.com/russia-to-draft-year-round-under-proposed-continuous-mobilization/