According to two Russian soldiers interviewed by a pro-invasion blogger, if you wear a Russian military uniform on the metro in Moscow people distance themselves and give you dirty looks.
According to two Russian soldiers interviewed by a pro-invasion blogger, if you wear a Russian military uniform on the metro in Moscow people distance themselves and give you dirty looks.
Police choose to be police, aren’t many of the Russian soldiers drafted or forced to serve at this point?
You are correct, many of them conscripted, and even those who was on contract before after mobilization started their contracts became perpetual.
And police not only choose to be police, but also choose to beat students.
You can still refuse to be drafted, you’ll likely go into prison, but that’s a better option than murdering people.
But prisoners get sent to war…
Only volunteer prisoners.
For now…
Until that changes, going to prison for dodging the draft remains to be one of the ways to avoid becoming a murder.
I’d consider the play to be get drafted, go AWOL, personally.
Easier to say than do, of course.
I don’t know much about Russian prisons, but I might take my chances on the battlefield and try escaping.
That is, unless you have family, in which case I wouldn’t put it past them to force compliance by threatening your family. I would probably serve “loyally” if not doing so meant my family would be thrown in torture prison for life or killed.
Not even Ukrainian sources mention anything about torture of relatives, so I’m pretty sure this is just your fantasy.
Even if it isn’t torture, just the idea of them being punished could easily be enough to convince people. I would honestly be surprised if there are no consequences to the families of Russian traitors
You’re free to find sources confirming your guesses. Until then, they remain guesses only.