16/ "Where would that kind of money come from? And it wasn't a sure thing. And at the military registration and enlistment office, they charged me two million: 'We'll just forget about you completely.'
Full-scale invasion and national resilience, broadcasted live.
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Attempt to avoid army service legally fails due to uniform issues
14/ "I actually went there to be admitted, hoping to somehow get out of [the army] legally.But it didn't work out.I just showed up one day when I was supposed to be there, showed my documents, and they started picking on me, even going so far as to say I wasn't in uniform for…
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Man refused treatment, extorted for bribes at hospitals in Luhansk and Samara
13/ He was subsequently sent to a neuropsychiatric center in Luhansk, where he was handed over to doctors, and then transferred to a hospital in Samara in September 2024. However, he was refused treatment and faced demands for extortionately large bribes to be rated unfit:
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Conditions at Luhansk IK-15 penal colony described as a ‘pit’
11/ He was then sent to "to Luhansk to see this pit where refuseniks are held, our guys are imprisoned, they took me to [penal colony] IK-15. That is, to see the conditions too. A basement. The guys are sitting there, there are bunks, there is a pallet on the walls, just a pit."
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Survivors mutiny after severe losses in undefended position
4/ Having started with 496 men, the battalion was down to 120-130 men by the time the survivors mutinied. The man says that they were sent to defend a location where "there were no trenches, nothing. Literally an hour passed, they gathered the groups, and the guys left."
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30 soldiers refuse to go to positions due to hearing shooting and shelling.
5/ "At that point, we had already agreed that we would not go to our positions because we could hear shooting, we could already hear shelling. I said that I wasn't going anywhere, and that was that. Thirty people agreed with me. They all refused to go. Literally.
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Mobilized man sent to Ukraine in 2022
The man was one of the first batch of men mobilized in October 2022, which he says occurred when he received a draft order at his workplace. He was subsequently sent to Ukraine to join an assault unit of the Russian Airborne Forces.
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Mutiny after devastating operation: Airborne troops “sent to be butchered”
3/ The unidentified man says that his unit mutinied in 2024 after 75% of them were killed in an operation. "We didn't exactly have a storm, probably even worse than that. This is an airborne assault brigade. So, they sent us, the airborne, to be butchered."
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Ukraine’s Tomahawk Launch Capability is a Political Question
I've heard a lot of statements that Ukraine wouldn't be able to launch Tomahawk missiles anyway due to their launchers' specifications. However, whether Ukraine is technically able to launch Tomahawk missiles is not the right question. The correct question is whether a political
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Interview on Russian fascism and Ukraine’s aspirations denied by Moscow
In order to reestablish the Russian sphere of influence after the Cold War, Moscow must deny everything Ukrainian aspirations represent. Kyiv Post speaks to Anton Shekhovtsov about Russian fascism.