A couple months ago there was someone in the Trashfuture discord who had a very similar story. This is something Ukraine has been doing as a regular practice for a while.

I haven’t heard any similar stories out of Russia, in case people were still questioning which side was “the bad guys” in this conflict

[–] MarmiteLover123@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I haven’t heard any similar stories out of Russia

The Russian strategy is to recruit volunteers with (for Russian standards) very high salaries and lump sum payments, to make use of prisoners, and to pressure or coerce conscripts into signing contracts for the Russian forces fighting in Ukraine. The actual conscript force of the Russian military has been used very rarely, if at all, in the war.

Also North Koreans in Kursk.

[–] coolusername@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

And the poorer parts of Russia pay lower wages than Moscow.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 30 points 1 day ago

And also which side are losing badly and need to negotiate a ceasefire right now. But I'm expecting too much from fascists that'd rather go out like the last days of nazi germany.

[–] ikilledtheradiostar@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

haven't listened to tf in a long while, but are they still rabid Ukraine shills?

[–] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

They don’t mention it much, every once in a while November will say something that makes me do a giant eye roll but it’s not constant