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‘Number of our deserters is too high’: Ukrainians flee fight against Russia

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[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 6 points 2 days ago

White people white peopling

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 37 points 3 days ago

He said he chose to desert after realising how perfunctory and ineffective his training was for real combat, and that he would inevitably become a front-line stormtrooper with no chances of survival.

“There’s zero training. They don’t care that I won’t survive the very first attack,” Tymofey said, referring to the drill sergeants who were training him in April after police rounded him up in central Kyiv.

He claimed that his trainers were mostly preoccupied with preventing desertions from the centre, which was surrounded by a 3-metre (9.8 ft) high concrete wall covered with barbed wire.

Warhammer 40K is not an instruction manual, guys

[–] Twongo@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 days ago (4 children)

i love reading the comments on posts like these :3

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago

I'm shocked by how many people genuinely don't understand the difference between is and ought

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 days ago

Same, all the impotent hostility of a wasp hive in a hydraulic press

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

What's with all the "cope" comments?

[–] NimdaQA@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 3 days ago (53 children)

“Even in Russia, there aren’t that many soldiers going AWOL,” Valentyn Manko, top commander of storm troops, told the Ukrainian Pravda on Saturday.

Yeah no, that is bullshit. Wherever there is war, there is desertion. Nobody wants to die for their country.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Your quote doesn't say there isn't any as you imply, of course there is. Water is wet.

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