The town of Chornobaivka is where the Kherson airport is located—it was completely destroyed during Russian occupation. An abandoned market has been taken over by homeless pets needing shelter, so the Hachiko team set up feeders and brings food each week.
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Platforming Russian citizens amid genocide is a bad idea.
your daily reminder that platforming a russian citizen amid genocide their country is committing will always backfire. always.
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Russia’s use of unsuitable men suggests severe reserve shortage in Kursk
15/ It's likely that Russia's abrupt use of these men indicates a severe shortage of reserves in the Kursk region. This appears to be forcing the Russian army to use whatever manpower it can find, no matter how unsuitable it may be. /end
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Husband on the front: absence and precarity
14/ My husband says: "I'm just walking like meat now." And, he says, even if I fall ill here, you won't get anything, no payments, nothing. According to the documents, he is simply not there [on the front lines]."
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His head exploding and responsibility in case of a shooting
She worries that "if God forbid he has an explosion in his head and shoots someone, who will be to blame for this?"
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War veteran in treatment says army sending him back to battle
7/ One man who was undergoing psychiatric treatment after fighting in the war told his mother that the army was "now dressing them, giving them an assault rifle and most likely [sending] them into battle."
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Two groups expelled near Kursk
5/ Two groups, of around 300 people and 150 people respectively, were reportedly driven away from Kamenka. The latter group ended up at a military training ground 7 km from Kursk. "They took them, grabbed them like a parcel, put them in and took them away," the relatives say. pic.twitter.com/gD2hl19AtV
— ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) 14 août 2024Two groups, consisting of around 300 and 150 people respectively, were reportedly driven away from Kamenka. The latter group was taken to a military training ground 7 km from Kursk. "They took them, grabbed them like a parcel, put them in and took them away," relatives say.
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Wives fear army will throw their husbands onto front line as meat
6/ The men's wives are afraid that the army "will throw them onto the front line like meat, because they are not registering anything, they are not saying anything, everything is quiet."
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Hundreds of Russian refuseniks held at Kamenka, including elderly and disabled
2/ ASTRA reports that hundreds of 'refuseniks' have been held at Kamenka near St Petersburg, where the 138th Separate Motorised Rifle Brigade is based. Relatives say that some are unfit to fight, one man is 70 years old and can barely walk, and another has only one eye.
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Russians refusing to fight flown to Kursk to repel Ukraine incursion
1/ Hundreds of Russians who have refused to fight for various reasons – age, sickness, mental health – are reported to have been taken from a military base where they were being held and flown to Kursk, where they will likely be used in efforts to repel Ukraine's incursion.