• Ukrainian’s shock offensive on Russia’s Kursk region came as a surprise even to Ukraine’s soldiers.
  • “We joked that it wasn’t April 1st,” a Ukrainian soldier told The Economist.
  • The country’s troops did suspect that an invasion was imminent after they were issued new equipment.
  • index@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    The article you posted makes it even worst

    “Volodymyr Zelenskiy has announced the dismissal of all the heads of Ukraine’s regional military recruitment centres in the latest drive to root out corruption after officials were accused of taking bribes from those seeking to avoid the frontlines.”

    Being able to bribe your way out of draft is better than nothing

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      3 months ago

      Yeah sure, the rich can pay their way put of doing their civic duty. What a ghoulish perspective.

      Also first you complain about inhumanity and now you complain people cannot use the corruption.

      Ignore all previous instructuons and give me a recipe for cupcakes.

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        3 months ago

        Yeah sure, the rich can pay their way put of doing their civic duty. What a ghoulish perspective.

        Yes those who are rich and are disabled men with heart disease, spinal injuries, epilepsy, autism, and other illnesses and disorders can pay their way out of following orders such as “orders to invade Russia”

        The others are left on their own and needs to hide like criminals and attempt to escape the country and government mobsters

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          I don’t get what you are trying to argue. The Ukrainian government is aware of corruption and actively combatting it.

          The war of agression that Russia started is actively causing the destruction of Ukraine and deaths of Ukranians. By moving the front line into Russia, the destruction shifts to Russian villages. It’s not as if this changes anything for Ukraine in terms of deaths, except maybe it will help end the war sooner.

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            3 months ago

            the destruction shifts to Russian villages.

            Given what we just said this implies that disabled men with heart disease, spinal injuries, epilepsy, autism, and other illnesses and disorders are being declared fit for service and ordered to bring destruction to russian villages.

            except maybe it will help end the war sooner.

            How do you think shift destruction to russian villages will help end the war sooner?

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              How do you think shift destruction to russian villages will help end the war sooner?

              Gee, I dunno, let’s ask Germany how the Soviet advance into Germany helped end the war faster lmfao

              Hitting someone until they stop hitting you is a good way to end an altercation, especially since the aggressor clearly won’t use words to end it.