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Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for the struggle for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation

Sep 22, 2022, 7 tweets

#Russia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί: mobilization has started in #Yakutia in #Siberia.

Unsurprisingly ethnic minority regions of Russia are the first to be called up.

#Russia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί: conscripts reporting for mobilization in #Chechnya.

#Russia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί: conscripts in #Dagestan argue with an employee of the enlistment office about not wanting to be mobilized.

"We fight for the future" she argues, "future? We don't even have a present" they say in return.

#Russia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί: conscripts in #Magadan (Russia's far east) are being herded onto a plane and send to the west as part of the nationwide mobilization.

#Russia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί: tears in #Moscow as a son is being mobilized for the illegal war of a expansionist regime.

#Russia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί: wailing mothers and wives and buses full of men and boys being forced to go to the front in #Ukraine πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦.

From #Dagestan tonight.

These conscripts sure seem motivated.

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