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Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the conscription of 160,000 into military service.

The decree, which was reported by news agency Interfax and also published on the government website for legal announcements, says conscription applies to all citizens aged between 18 and 30 and covers the period from April to July.

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[โ€“] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 98 points 2 days ago (4 children)

160k Russian troops attacking Ukraine = guaranteed death

160k Russian troops attacking the Kremlin = guaranteed win

They should consider their options

[โ€“] bigFab@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure. Wagner failed on that, but new recruits would do much better!

[โ€“] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wagner had less than 20k

...and they may as well have been recruits

[โ€“] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

And he chose to stop. He was pretty much at red square already.

[โ€“] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

He didn't choose, Putin made a deal with him and killed him 2 months later

[โ€“] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

He chose to accept the deal, tho

It wasn't the kind of deal he had a choice in

Prigozhin wasn't going to Moscow to overthrow Putin, just Shoigu and Gerasimov.

As soon as Putin made the call, the whole thing was over.

[โ€“] exchange12rocks@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago

They've been drafting this amount of conscripts twice a year for the last several decades: nothing unusual here, not related to the war - would've happened anyway

[โ€“] nesc@lemmy.cafe 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They don't want to attack kremlin, like they actually love p*tin.

[โ€“] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You can say Putin here. No double speak required.

[โ€“] Vegetvs@feddit.org 0 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Really?! I always thought p*tin was French for b*tch.

[โ€“] nesc@lemmy.cafe 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't want to. You can say it three times instead.

[โ€“] talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Will he appear like beetlejuice? Because I could go the The Hague and summon him.

Haha, imprison me all you want, my countrymen can summon me any time!

Any time now...