The Russian soldiers who are sent to the front in Ukraine are almost all young and perhaps even at the beginning of their experience. It was the Kremlin that on March 9 admitted a rather serious mistake: having mistakenly sent recruits to fight in Kyiv. The result? Thousands of soldiers dead: According to NATO, the number of Russian casualties in the first four weeks of the conflict is around between 7,000 and 15,000.
Many of the deceased soldiers have several things in common: they were born when Putin was already in power, they lived in the poorest areas of the country where mostly only recruitment is possible, and they didn’t even know they were going to fight sent. As the “Washington Post” reports, the “spring draft” has already begun for Ben 134,000 children. Although the Secretary of Defense Sergei Shoigu he promised that no one would be sent to the front. However, the families are scared and appear to have lost faith in these assurances.
In short, the climate is quite tense. This is evidenced by the fact that on February 25, 12 soldiers of the Krasnodar National Guard who participated in an exercise in Crimea did not heed the call to go to Ukraine. And for that they were fired. To represent her, the lawyer Mikhail Benyash, who explained in an interview with the dissident magazine Meduza: “If there was an ongoing conflict, emergency situation or martial law, then the terms of the contract could be changed without the consent of the interested parties and for 6 months. But there is no conflict here, there is only a special military operation. And the law says nothing about it. In Russia, what is happening in Ukraine is never called a “war. And not only that, the lawyer revealed that he 200 requests for help, so that we understand that they are there other soldiers ready not to go.
