‘They’re not willing to fight’ Putin risks conscript revolt as Kremlin battles families outcry
“The conscripts may feel, if they’re easily beaten by a superior Ukrainian force, angry towards the president and towards the society that sent them.”
Putin risks another “march on Moscow” as the Kremlin battles with the outcry from conscripts sent to fight in Kursk and their families, Ian Garner, professor at the Pilecki Institute in Warsaw tells Frontline on #timesradio
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I'm trying to write a comment about the 1,5% of GDP spent for contract soldiers and YT keeps on deleting it!
Effing shameful.
Don't worry. Soon, Putie will tell them what they should think and feel.
Sun Tzu might say that "Vladimir Putin has lost the Moral Law, and is an inept Commanding Officer".
Can you please get some journalists ! This is pure propaganda
FFS SHUT YOUR WINDOW!!! The background noise makes this basically unwatchable for me, it's completely wrecked by it!!!
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The Times is so biased on the Russo-Ukrainian War that they are consistently making themselves look foolish. I don't mind so much that they are pro-Zelinsky but they really have to stop having MI6 write their articles.
In Vietnam, conscripts realised it was safer to toss a grenade into the commander's tent than be sent into the jungle to fight for reasons they did not agree with. How long until someone at the top of the Russian command chain realises the same thing?
Down with Putin! God bless the Ukraine! The Russian military and people need to arrest Putin and turn him over for War Crimes.This is the only way to save yourselves, save your sons and thereby save your country.
Russia has already witnessed the consequences of unmotivated soldiers due to either lack of better communications by their high rank officials and support/supplies (food & ammunition) at the very beginning of this invasion. Some soldiers run over their superior, Yevgeny Prigozhin… Well… He has become a familiar case of guessing-game around the world…
Im 100% on the side of Ukraine, but honestly, I’m tired of seeing titles and videos like this. Sure, maybe there is an issue with conscripts, but how big is it really? A few thousand? Out of hundreds of thousands? Im sorry, until conscription / draft hits Moscow and St. Petersburg proper, and heavily at that, then nothing will change. Not the russian government, not the war. And no, im not some bot trying to be clever, im legitimately on Ukraine’s side. But we’ve seen this story over, and over, and over, and over again every few months since the beginning of the war. Im not saying it cant become a real problem for them in the coming months, but its going to take an extraordinarily high amount of conscripts dying and being replaced before this becomes a real problem for them.
Putin also formally annexed parts of Ukraine into Russia, including parts not controlled by Russia’s army—which nobody except Russia recognizes as valid—so that he can send conscripts to fight on the front line in Ukraine, because under Russian law, those conscripts aren’t being sent abroad. Semantics. In a dictatorship, the law only applies when the dictator needs it to.
Great interview!
What if they have a war and no one goes
GEN Z sez FU Putin!
Where's you're kids on the front line Kleptocrats?
fake
Conscripts were not fighting. This is propaganda.
How much are you getting from to US to spew this BS.
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Weak generation nobody wants to work, fight or have sex. Mindless blobs
He won't send any of his own family to fight his war. funny that!!! He always was a coward himself. Well known for cowardice.
The opposite
One cold February morning in Petrograd, back when Russia was caught in an unwinnable war, many mothers who were out on their errands found that there was no bread in the shops. Riots erupted. Eight days later, the Tsar abdicated, and 1917 became a very interesting year indeed!
Good thing for Putin to remember when he decides to give someone another “history” lesson.
Bla, bla,bla, BS, BS and more BS, two years ago was BS, now not even BS
Why does it look like a racial cleansing of the Slavic race?
Ukrainians are imprisoned in their own 80% of their country. They can't even go to adjacent countries, and their police vans are now kidnapping male teenagers. Who in their right mind would want to die for America in its declining years? Please help Ukrainian youths escape from certain death on the front line
The more land and resources putin has, the more he can blackmail the world.
Anyone with two days of training is totally not equipped to fight. This is why they use FSB barrier troops to force the untrained men forwards. However when the young men realise they are meat either way, they’ll turn on the barriers. Some will KIA but the majority will survive. Once it happens, the idea will spread.
At least you won't get paid if youre only maimed either
lol. This is pure false propaganda. Russia has no problem getting new soldiers and volunteers and Putin, as well as the war, is overwhelmingly supported.
Pukin now recruiting merceneries from Africa and Nepal for the meat grinder 😔
All iis good for Ukrainian and all is Bad for russian
Lib news
Putin is obviously visiting other countries for financial, weapons and humans to help fight this war he started.
Times Radio is a propaganda outfit. Does anyone believe this nonsense?
What fantasy world is this guy living in. Half of Zalenski's cabinet have resigned in the last few days. The Ukrainians are trapped in Kurst are being destroyed and the Russians have now past the 2014 battlelines and Ukraine is falling back. Russia is not all bad and Ukraine is not all good that is why you know this man is speaking with an agenda.
This is just one professor’s wishful thinking. I see no signs of revolt in Russia.
People here need to listen to Scott Ritter and Douglas McGregor not this paid for clown
has producing fake headlines for 2 years straight had any impact on the war in Ukraine? Why hasn't Putin died after Times Radio reported 100+ times that he was about to die?
This is truly canned questions and answers, the worst possible type of interviews. Clownship at its best!
What is the point of the repetition? One sentence maybe valid.
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Why is the average age of the Ukranian age 45?
La guerra è della Nato contro la Russia che ha dato la procura all Ucraina ! La Nato ha scatenato la guerra per espandersi ancora di più . Putin si sta difendendo dall aggressione tonti😂😂😂
Putin needs to be Putout.
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If all the Times Radio headlines and analysis were true, Putin would be dead or in jail, Russia would look like Gaza. Don't they even feel ashamed that none of their analysis turn out to be true.
The Russian approach to casualties is uncivilized.. It's difficult for a non savage mind to process it. Even as a warfighter.
As a warfighter one becomes numb to many things, but to observe the wanton slaughter of so many by their leadership for so little gain would be difficult. The trading of blood for real estate is the essence of combat objectives. However the Russians have and always will have the willingness to lose so many for so little