'My son has died': Russia mourns loss of first drafted soldiers in Ukraine

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Source: The Guardian

Andrei Nikiforov, a lawyer from St Petersburg, was one of the hundreds of thousands of Russians mobilised since last month to hold the frontlines in his country’s faltering war in Ukraine.

On 25 September he received his call-up papers. By 7 October, just two weeks later, he was dead.

“We don’t know what happened,” said Alexander Zelensky, the head of the Nevsky Collegium of Lawyers, of which Nikiforov was a member. Zelensky and a member of Nikiforov’s family confirmed his call-up and death. “All we have is a date and a place.”

That place was Lysychansk, one of the most dangerous spots near the frontlines.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/15/my-son-has-died-russia-mourns-loss-of-first-drafted-soldiers-in-ukraine

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Article continues on to cite more conscripted casualties. This has to be the death knell for the Putin regime. How much abuse can the average Russian tolerate?

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1. The death of a Ukranian boy is really sickening to me

He lay for five days with two broken legs and other injuries administered to him by Russians. No assistance whatsoever.

Barbarians. How can they not be ejected from UN privileges?

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2. Yeah, I saw his picture

Very sickening and heartbreaking. I am convinced Russia must be declared a terrorist state.

[GB_RN]

3. Only Two Ways To Eject Russia...

The first would require redoing the entire UN charter. A renegotiation of the entire thing; years of work. The second would be a procedural move within the Security Council, which if we invoke it, then the precedent set by it would put us at risk for being removed from the Security Council by a hostile member.

Neither option is really viable.

[paleotn]

5. Supposedly not. The USSR no longer exists....

The Russian Federation is a new entity. A rump state of former USSR republics that holds the seat by UN resolution. Supposedly, they can be ejected by UN resolution. If we were talking the other 4 permanent members, I'd agree with you. Russia is not one of them.

[GB_RN]

6. The Information I Gave Is From Wiser Heads Than Mine.

Russia's seat on the SC, even if inherited from the USSR, is held by precedent at this point. No way we're going to take a chance on ejecting them and have it come back to bite us in the ass. Guaranteed, it would.

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10. "Post-soviet optimism", one of the deadliest mistakes of the 20th century

[paleotn]

4. Going to be a lot more.....

It's another tragedy within a tragedy. Poorly trained, poorly equipped draftees and voluntolds thrown in against a better trained, highly motivated adversary. A bloodbath for the Russians. Just when you thought this shit couldn't get worse.

[keithbvadu2]

7. Comeback song

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8. "A military veteran who had served in Chechnya.."

Doesn’t give his age but Chechnya was a while ago. He had spent time in the army before so he was no 20-something draftee.

[Heather MC]

9. The only reasons wars never end

Wealthy men can always find young bodies to throw at bullets.
How amazing would it be if the soldiers decided not to fight.
That would certainly put an end to all wars wouldn't it

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11. Care factor zero

Sorry, but I've run out of fucks to give. He was a lawyer. He probs had the resources to leave Russia but he didn't. I'm saving all my fucks for the Ukranian civilians who've been tortured and murdered by Russian soldiers...

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12. Opinin is turning

against Putin dictatorship.

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13. Especially in Ukraine.

[maxsolomon]

14. How much abuse?

20 million died under Stalin. They can take quite a lot more.

[Oneironaut]

15. Another Russian rapist dead. lol