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2. And hasty marriages so the widows can collect the inevitable death benefit
Thu Jan 29, 2026, 03:29 PM
23 hrs ago

Not to mention Russian soldiers are not given basic equipment and have to buy their own.

They get no supplies and are reduced to drinking water out of puddles.

The injured are returned to assaults, some on crutches .

There are blocking forces with orders to shoot retreating soldiers. The blocking forces will be shot if they don’t obey that order.

Commanders extort money from soldiers with the threat of being ordered into suicidal assaults.

The bodies are not collected, so death benefits don’t have to be paid.

The accounts are some of the most horrific things I’ve read.

Putin is a devil.

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