• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

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

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      4 months ago

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

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      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).