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RandySF

(58,752 posts)
Mon Mar 21, 2022, 06:46 PM Mar 2022

Could Putin send children into the battlefield?

Russia may use children from the occupied Crimea for “expendable material”. Teenagers from the “youth army” can be thrown into the battlefield of a full-scale war that Putin unleashed.

This was reported on Facebook by the Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.

“Unfortunately, the “youth army” may turn out to be not just a media and propaganda story, not just a tool for brainwashing Crimean children and photographing kids in military uniforms for the campaign” victory. “Children who were involved in the Yunarmiya movement during the years of occupation of Crimea” , can be thrown onto a very real, and not propaganda, battlefield,” the message says.

The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine found out that due to the lack of manpower to replenish the ranks of the occupying army, the Kremlin leadership may consider the possibility of involving minor citizens of the Russian Federation in the war against Ukraine.

According to the HUR, the corresponding order” on organizing the involvement of members of the military-patriotic public movement “youth army” in a special operation on the territory of Ukraine” was signed by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation,” the prosecutor’s office added.

The order refers to the preparation of a potential human reserve of children aged 17-18 to be involved in the war as part of the occupying army. If the Kremlin really wants to make teenagers “expendable”, then about 1,800 members of the “youth army” could go to war.

“Let us recall that the “youth army” is a Russian children’s and youth military organization under the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, which is largely integrated into the educational process of educational institutions. It is distinguished by radical propaganda work among Russian youth. Children from the age of 8 become members of the organization,” from the statement.

By its actions, the Russian Federation wants to create as many obstacles as possible for the de-occupation of Crimea. For this, she is even ready actually to sacrifice children from the peninsula.




https://odessa-journal.com/russia-can-use-children-from-the-youth-army-of-crimea/

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Could Putin send children into the battlefield? (Original Post) RandySF Mar 2022 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author old as dirt Mar 2022 #1
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Kyle Rittenhouse is available. greatauntoftriplets Mar 2022 #2
Would love I_UndergroundPanther Mar 2022 #4
Putin is capable of any atrocity. TomSlick Mar 2022 #5
That's another war crime isn't it? Crunchy Frog Mar 2022 #6
With catapults lame54 Mar 2022 #7

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I_UndergroundPanther

(12,463 posts)
4. Would love
Mon Mar 21, 2022, 08:35 PM
Mar 2022

To see him as a russian soldier boy,whimpering and crying trying to run away from a bomb from russia headed to where he is hiding tripping all over the debris and dead russian soldiers as Ukrainians fire at him as a russian bomb hits him square on his ass.

Thinks he's badass,try fighting in a war you sociopathic weak piece of shit murderer .

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