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[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They’re desparate for cannon fodder?

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Or desperate to keep people in St Petersburg and Moscow from freaking out cause their kids are now POWs

[–] Kaavi@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

The lucky ones are pow, the not so lucky ones are dead. #SupportingTakingTheWarHomeToRussia

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

That would match what I've heard it suggested that the POWs taking in Kursk were conscripts (compulsory military service usually of young people), instead of the POWs we've had to-date which were contract soldiers (volunteers).