Vladimir Putin has ordered the conscription of another 133,000 soldiers to aid his war in Ukraine.

The 18-to-30 year olds will be called up between tomorrow and December 31, but parents have raised fear that the untrained conscripts will be thrust straight into ‘hot’ border regions close to the war zone.

The figure is higher than the same draft last year when Putin recruited 130,000, and in spring when he drafted another 150,000.

The Russian regime is facing an increasing backlash over use of conscripts close to the war zone in defiance of an earlier Putin promise to parents that he would not put recruits in harm’s way.

  • twistypencil@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Which propaganda did it show as false? The only one I know about is the lie that Ukraine is full of nazis

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      3 months ago

      Not OP, but I guess that the one about Russian superiority and untouchability. Not only Russia is not achieving the objectives in Ukraine, it got counterattacked on their own soil.

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      3 months ago

      The propaganda about Russian military might, and that they had already won the war.
      Yes if you weren’t aware, Putin is claiming that Russia already won the war. That’s how insane the propaganda is!

      Also propaganda that no country would ever dare invade Russia because Russia has the strongest military in the world, and they have nukes.

      But there are also many Russian civilians that stayed in the region now occupied by Ukraine, and they are in contact with friends and families in Russia, and is now telling how Ukraine is treating them well, and is now supplying food and medicine, and are not at all the Nazis they’ve been told.

      So it’s a pretty big collapse of several aspects of the Russian propaganda.