As the war creates more dead Russian soldiers Putin and his generals are hard pressed to find replacements for their ongoing heavy losses. Putin sure isn’t going to daft the sons of the Moscow elites, so he is turning to the most powerless segments of his subject populations. At the top of that list are the the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR), and the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR or Transnistria). Their subjects don’t count as dead Russians when they become 300s (dead soldiers). So he turns to his puppet rulers of the DPR, the LPR, and the PMR (who are totally dependent on Putin for everything they require to remain in power) to supply his insatiable hunger for more cannon fodder for the brutal meatgrinder he created in Ukraine.
Men under 65 are spending their days in hiding, leaving wives and sisters to take over their jobs
By Emma Graham-Harrison and Vera Mironova in Kyiv
n aggressive draft campaign by the Russian-backed separatists who control parts of eastern Ukraine has emptied the area’s streets of military-age men, with many in hiding to avoid being sent to the frontline.
In a sign of how desperate pro-Russia authorities are to bolster the ranks of fighters, in late March they announced that the upper age limit of the draft had been raised from 55 to 65 in Donetsk, local media reported. And on Saturday authorities announced a mobilisation in the region of Kherson, which was largely captured by Russia after the war began.
Men who do not want to become cannon fodder in a war they do not support, against a country – Ukraine – that most of them still consider their own, are spending their days in hiding. Locals joke that they now live in a town of Amazons, run by women.
Husbands, sons and brothers live in basements or locked indoors. They cannot stay in their own homes because registration is by address. Instead they stay at the homes of friends or relatives where no military-age men are listed as residents.
What would new Russian conscripts be facing?
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Putin’s appetite for conquest is growing to include Moldova.
And NATO is reacting. Note that there are no Zs on this large convoy.
Putin’s blood soaked dreams of empire.