Lol so awesome
How are they being so easily captured? What’s going on there?
it’s a mindset. pretty much none of them asked to be there, and they’re not fighting to defend their homes, so why the fuck should I do anything dangerous?
If they capture enough… They could negotiate a surrender/end to this stupid fucking war by holding them hostage until public pressure increases enough.
there are Russian families that have been given bodies to bury when their children are actually POWs in Ukraine
Jesus Christ imagine putting this much effort into obfuscating the truth. Like the media apparatus we live in in the west deserves criticism for obfuscating truth but usually its from being willingly lazy, not out of being willfully… Whatever this is
Pooty poot doesn’t care about that. Its what he does and I can assure you if Ukraine stooped that low which isn’t likely putin would sooner see them dead. After all putin thinks children’s hospitals are okay to attack.
People here are talking about conscripted prisoners, but that’s not what we see here. Prisoners are offered contracts with the military, and then sent to the places where Russia is attacking to be used as expendable troops in so called meat assaults.
These are conscripts - young men on their mandatory military training which lasts for a year. Instead of actual training they have been sent to guard the border because Russia didn’t expect Ukraine to attack. Because of the lack of training, motivation and most importantly heavy weapons, they are more likely to surrender.
This distinction is especially important because Putin has repeatedly promised that conscripts will not be used in the war.
