Vladimir Putin has ordered the conscription of another 133,000 soldiers to aid his war in Ukraine.

The 18-to-30 year olds will be called up between tomorrow and December 31, but parents have raised fear that the untrained conscripts will be thrust straight into ‘hot’ border regions close to the war zone.

The figure is higher than the same draft last year when Putin recruited 130,000, and in spring when he drafted another 150,000.

The Russian regime is facing an increasing backlash over use of conscripts close to the war zone in defiance of an earlier Putin promise to parents that he would not put recruits in harm’s way.

    • @[email protected]
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      962 months ago

      Propaganda? It’s called oppression. It’s literally illegal for people to complain about this.

      • @[email protected]
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        482 months ago

        I won’t disagree, but the controlled narrative the Kremlin pushes is still very much the definition of propaganda.

        • @ours
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          332 months ago

          And you need the propaganda to have effective oppression.

          Putin has to have his official narrative in order to mandate that anything else is a lie.

      • Optional
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        172 months ago

        It can be two things. It’s a machine.