How Sumy’s residents kept Russian forces out of their city
Locals joined territorial defence forces when Russia invaded – and managed to hold the city despite being encircled
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Feb. 24: "Blitzkrieg!"
The 10 months after that: Flash-in-the-pankrieg
Russia Making Slow Progress in ‘Fortress’ Bakhmut — Wagner Boss Prigozhin - The Moscow Times
Russian troops attacking the Ukrainian town of Bakhmut are bogged down because of a tenacious Ukrainian resistance and an extensive network of defensive fortifications, the head of Russia’s mercenary company Wagner said Tuesday. There is a “fortress in every house” in Bakhmut, Yevgeny Prigozhin...
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Also notable was the meeting he held at the end of November 2022 with "the mothers of soldiers involved in the special military operation". It was noteworthy because there were only a few mothers among them, but almost all of those present were reliable party women, some of them explicitly party women, delegated either from United Russia or the All-Russian People's Front. This was necessary because the autumn had seen the strengthening of the 'Council of Soldiers' Wives and Wives', whose activists criticised the mobilisation and the failed tactics of the special operation. The majority of its members were relatives of mobilised Russians or conscripts.
The mothers and wives of conscripts report a number of violations during the mobilisation: the sending of untrained conscripts and conscripts to the front, disruptions in the supply of uniforms and equipment, and problems with housing and food.
On 28 November, VKontakte blocked the page of the Mothers and Wives Council at the request of the General Prosecutor's Office. On 29 November, it became known that the founder of the Council, Olga Cukanova, had been prosecuted.
So, so far, we have had the real military wives and wives, and the political ones, in Putin's service, whom he met and showed himself to, not the real ones.
But now that even the gulls in St Petersburg are wailing over the Neva that another mobilisation on a larger scale than ever before is expected within days, we need the help of women again. But it is coming. On the second of December, a channel called 'Military Widows' appeared on the Telegraph, and their activities are more than interesting. They are calling for a general mobilisation! Their manifesto of yesterday, the second of January, says it word for word:
"We call on President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin to authorise a large-scale mobilisation of the Russian army in line with the situation on our borders. Russia has tens of millions of men of military age - we have someone to rely on to face the enemy. But what can our men do, sitting at home, without competent command, without supplies, without uniforms? Mobilisation is what will allow them to save themselves.
We ask our President, our Commander-in-Chief, to ban men of conscript age from leaving Russia. And we have every moral right to do so: our husbands died protecting these men, but who will protect us if they run away? Military Widows of Russia - for greater mobilisation! Russia for mobilisation! This is our demand, our decision, our demand. And we believe that the authorities will listen to us!"
They could have written "we are already widows, let more women be widows!" and then it would have been clear what they wanted. K https://www.zonaporkolt.com/2023/01...nNzSTKOPS-x-JSX1biX9e4t4qMDV0RzUYq_Z0Fezb48YQ
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The mothers and wives of conscripts report a number of violations during the mobilisation: the sending of untrained conscripts and conscripts to the front, disruptions in the supply of uniforms and equipment, and problems with housing and food.
On 28 November, VKontakte blocked the page of the Mothers and Wives Council at the request of the General Prosecutor's Office. On 29 November, it became known that the founder of the Council, Olga Cukanova, had been prosecuted.
So, so far, we have had the real military wives and wives, and the political ones, in Putin's service, whom he met and showed himself to, not the real ones.
But now that even the gulls in St Petersburg are wailing over the Neva that another mobilisation on a larger scale than ever before is expected within days, we need the help of women again. But it is coming. On the second of December, a channel called 'Military Widows' appeared on the Telegraph, and their activities are more than interesting. They are calling for a general mobilisation! Their manifesto of yesterday, the second of January, says it word for word:
"We call on President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin to authorise a large-scale mobilisation of the Russian army in line with the situation on our borders. Russia has tens of millions of men of military age - we have someone to rely on to face the enemy. But what can our men do, sitting at home, without competent command, without supplies, without uniforms? Mobilisation is what will allow them to save themselves.
We ask our President, our Commander-in-Chief, to ban men of conscript age from leaving Russia. And we have every moral right to do so: our husbands died protecting these men, but who will protect us if they run away? Military Widows of Russia - for greater mobilisation! Russia for mobilisation! This is our demand, our decision, our demand. And we believe that the authorities will listen to us!"
They could have written "we are already widows, let more women be widows!" and then it would have been clear what they wanted. K https://www.zonaporkolt.com/2023/01...nNzSTKOPS-x-JSX1biX9e4t4qMDV0RzUYq_Z0Fezb48YQ
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