• edge [he/him]
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    571 month ago

    A man killed the officer during an attempt to kidnap his acquaintance who had recently been mobilized into the army.

    That’s either an admission of their draft officers kidnapping enlistees, or much more likely an amazing twist of logic. He was trying to kidnap his friend from the people that forced him to join the army?

    In search of the perpetrators, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) insists that Russian special services are behind the latest incidents.

    Those damn Russians. If it weren’t for them our citizens would loyally sacrifice themselves and their friends to the meat grinder!

  • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    361 month ago

    “Russian interference”

    Ah yes, because the average Ukrainian would love to be dragged away in an unmarked van, handed a rifle and sent straight to the front lines to be used as cannon fodder, if not for those Dastardly Russians!

  • trompete [he/him]
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    341 month ago

    In the last week, I have seen two videos of groups of men punching and puting to flight TCC officers. And one video that supposedly shows a TCC office going up in flames. Previously, this stuff was rare; you’d usually see mainly women shoving and berating the TCC pressgangs, and obviously the guys being kidnapped trying to escape. The TCC wasn’t getting attacked though, that seems new.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      131 month ago

      Russian interference is the magic sauce for every western narrative. Ukrainians burn down Starver’s house, Russian interference. Ukrainians don’t want to be used as cannon fodder for banderites, you guessed it, Russian interference.

    • @IttihadChe@lemmy.ml
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      71 month ago

      "do they hate us because we kidnap them and their loved ones and send them to die on the front lines of a losing war?..

      Nah, must be those pesky Russians again!"

  • NewAcctWhoDis [any]
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    1 month ago

    Have to get pretty far before they admit it

    The reputation of draft offices is often overshadowed by accusations — at times justified — of forced conscription without compliance with fundamental civil rights, as well as ill-treatment of conscripts in recruitment centers.

    But don’t worry about it

    “We can argue about the methods of mobilization, justice, and the human element in the enlistment offices. And there will be truth in each of these disputes. But war does not wait for us to agree,” Kukharchuk added.

    A little off topic but worth noting

    “No real fact suggests that the hot war phase should stop somewhere. Our imagination wants it, but we are not there,” Osadchuk said.