Over 18,000 Russian Southern Military District troops #deserted
According to many observers, low morale is a recurring problem for the #Russian Armed Forces
Of the 18,000 deserting #soldiers, around 12,000 of them belonging to the 8th Combined Arms Army – a unit often deployed in hostilities in eastern Ukraine.
Of this number, around 10,000 are mobilized #conscripts and 2,000 contract soldiers
#Soldiers Charged With Violent #Crimes Will Now Face More Scrutiny Before They Can Simply Leave the #Army
The change comes after reporting from ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and Military Times revealed that hundreds of soldiers charged with offenses like sexual assault and domestic violence left the Army without facing courts-martial.
For more than ten months, #Bakhmut was under the bombardment of #Russian troops, until it fell in May 2023 despite the fierce #resistance of the Ukrainians. The #documentary follows three young #soldiers a few months before the fall of Bakhmut: Vadim Adamov, Mykhailo Alekseenko & Yuriy Samanyuk. Only one of the three men will survive the second year of the Russian assault on #Ukraine.
“A Palestinian girl in a Betty Boop shirt watches as Israeli border guards keep watch as Palestinians attend the third friday prayer of Islam's holy fasting month of Ramadan outside the Ibrahimi mosque.”
August 19th, 2011. Hebron, West Bank
Source: alamy.com
Artem, a serviceman of infantry battalion of the 61st mechanised brigade, pets a dog in a trench at a position near the frontline, in Kharkiv region, Ukraine. REUTERS/Sofiia Gatilova
“The #soldiers dug up the graves this morning and dragged the bodies with bulldozers, then crushed the bodies with the bulldozers,” said the hospital’s head of pediatric services, Hossam Abu Safiya, in a phone interview on Saturday. “I have never seen such a thing before.”
Videos and images he shared with CNN show decomposing human remains scattered across the #hospital grounds.
The newly-formed "Siberia" battalion is made up of Russians who have come to fight against their fellow citizens.
The Sibir Volunteer Battalion was created as part of the AFU at the end of October 2023. It is part of the International Legion under the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.
The #Palestinians who live (or lived) in this hilltop hamlet had decamped in terror a few weeks earlier. A gang of #Israeli#settlers — their neighbors — had been tormenting them for weeks, they explained, beating them up and threatening murder if they didn’t leave.
Similar scenes are playing out across the #WestBank these days as Israeli settlers, backed and sometimes aided by #soldiers, force #Arabs out of villages
"The #Palestinians who live (or lived) in this hilltop hamlet had decamped in terror a few weeks earlier. A gang of #Israeli settlers... had been tormenting them for weeks... beating them up & threatening #murder if they didn’t leave.
Similar scenes are playing out across the #WestBank these days as Israeli settlers, backed & sometimes aided by #soldiers, force Arabs out of villages, farmlands & herding pastures."
War in Ukraine: The complicated evacuation of the wounded from the frontline.
While the number of wounded soldiers, like that of the deceased, is kept secret by the Ukrainian government, it amounts to tens of thousands of men, increasingly subjected to Russia's firepower. Society cares what happens to them.
Did you know that the first modern standing #army revolted?
During the 14th c. the #Ottomanempire found itself in need of #soldiers. The easiest recruits were children of Christian slaves who were turned #Moslem.
These boys were 7-14 years old & would become proper soldiers, known as Janissary, at age 24.
They had to remain isolated from society, #poor & #celibate.
Around 1446 did they start to demand to be paid.
By 1566 marriage was allowed.
Does anyone know why #Israeli#soldiers were freaking out & tearing apart their own #infantry quarters? There's no other info provided & it's from about 2 months ago.
»The #settlers look like #soldiers. They come at night, but sometimes during the day, wearing army uniforms. They execute operations against Palestinians, beating us, taking our phones and smashing them to prevent us from documenting their terror. The settlers steal things from our homes and take our money. And in the end, their message is always the same: “You have 24 hours to flee, or we will shoot you.”«
"We have to say that all the information that we report to you is subject to #censorship by the Israeli army. We must say there are wounded soldiers that arrived here but we are not allowed to talk about them unless this is approved."
At a medical stabilisation point in the besieged city of Bakhmut, 51-year-old veteran Ukrainian soldier Oleh Nazarov, who sustained head, neck, back and right hand injuries from a Russian grenade attack on his trench an hour ago, waits to be transferred to hospital.
#Rightwing#conspiracy#lunatic#StewPeters believes that a legitimate, viable solution to the complex problems at our southern #border is to line the border with #soldiers, and have them indiscriminately gun down anyone who attempts to cross into America (a maximum B misdemeanor civil offense). This is what passes for #intellectualism and #policy on the right. Just suspend the #Constitution and ignore established #SupremeCourt#precedent related to use of force. 🤦♂️