The British Press Gang returns...

[brooklynite]

Russia is grabbing men off the street to fight in Ukraine

Police and military officers swooped down on a Moscow business center this week unannounced. They were looking for men to fight in Ukraine — and they seized nearly every one they saw. Some musicians, rehearsing. A courier there to deliver a parcel. A man from a Moscow service agency, very drunk, in his mid-50s, with a walking disability.

“I have no idea why they took him,” said Alexei, who, like dozens of others in the office complex, was rounded up and taken to the nearest military enlistment office, part of a harsh new phase in the Russian drive.

In cities and towns across Russia, men of fighting age are going into hiding to avoid the officials who are seizing them and sending them to fight in Ukraine.

Police and military press-gangs in recent days have snatched men off the streets and outside Metro stations. They’ve lurked in apartment building lobbies to hand out military summonses. They’ve raided office blocks and hostels. They’ve invaded cafes and restaurants, blocking the exits.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/16/russia-mobilization-men/

[lark]

1. Russia has gone purely crazy!

Putin has to know this will turn Russians against him, no matter what lies he puts on tv and in the news - they will know the lies because they see what is happening.

WTF is Putin thinking with this action, you would think he'd know this will totally blow up in his face. These forcefully conscripted troops will not stay troops, they will disappear or worse kill the commanders and then disappear. Putin has already lost and this proves it. Now we just need for him to visit a tall building with open windows.

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. Wonder what tuckie carlson thinks of his hero ordering this?