Thread by @Anastasiya1451A

The Russian Army – who is dying in the Kremlin's genocidal war in Ukraine?

RU is losing the war that it started in 🇺🇦 – more than 50k KIA 🇷🇺 and 300k more to be recruited as cannon fodder by the Kremlin. What are the 🇷🇺 soldiers dying for?
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RU leadership believed in its own propaganda: ignoring the dysfunctional state of the RU army, miscalculated the UA resistance and the Western support.
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First, 🇷🇺 suffered massive losses in Northern UA & failed to capture Kyiv.
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Then, after the numerous war crimes committed by the 🇷🇺 fascist occupiers in Bucha & Mariupol became undeniable, the Western aid to 🇺🇦 increased with US President Biden even resurrecting the WWII-era lend-lease policy to help 🇺🇦 to fight 🇷🇺 fascist invaders.
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With more equipment and training, 🇺🇦 resisted the 🇷🇺 advance in the East regions during the 2nd phase of war.
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Now, with 🇷🇺 losing its potential to advance and conquering new territories, 🇺🇦 is starting the counteroffensive – retaking territory in Kharkiv region and the East and constantly harassing the surrounded 🇷🇺 troops in the Kherson region. Thus, the 🇷🇺 casualties keep rising.
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Kamil Galeev has described in detail the three categories of soldiers in the 🇷🇺 army: 1) Kadyrov’s Chechens, 2) people from the occupied-territories & 3) the “common” Russians.

https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1521147854949036032

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1.Putin’s hand-fed warlord, Ramzan Kadyrov, has a personal army of around 20k Kadyrov’s Chechen troops that he avoids spending. They are busy with filming propagandist TikToks &performing “filtration” activities (i.e.terrorising the locals) in already occupied 🇺🇦 territories.
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2.🇷🇺 is forcibly mobilising people from the occupied-territories of the 🇺🇦 Lugansk&Donetsk regions, which constitutes a war crime by itself. They are put on the frontline, without adequate training, equipment or supplies – these people are used as cannon fodder by 🇷🇺.
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3.Then, there are the 🇷🇺 citizens that are being recruited to the army either for mandatory military service, on the contract basis or as part of one of the 🇷🇺 mercenary companies (e.g. Wagner) 10/
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In the wake of the catastrophic for the Russian army invasion of Ukraine there are more reports from the disgruntled 🇷🇺 citizens that for one reason or another do not want to see their loved ones die for the Russian imperialistic ambitions.
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Part 1: Kremlin’s war on ethnic minorities in the Russian Federation
Russia is sending the poor and the ethnic minorities as cannon fodder to Ukraine – effectively genociding ethnically non-Russian population in regions like Buryatia, Dagestan, North Ossetia and Tuva.
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On the map of the military mortality in 🇷🇺, we can see that while the big metropolises like Moscow&St.Petersburg were spared from the sludge on zinc coffins in the last 7months, the regions with a high proportion of ethnic minorities are prominent amongst the war casualties.
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e.g., while in Buryatia & North Ossetia, the military mortality per 100k is 5.44 and 5.52 respectively, the average for all regions is 1.09 and median is 0.73. In comparison with the 2021, the mortality in Buryatia increased 270% amongst the young men. 14/
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Of course, Tuva & Buryatia are some of the most depressing and underdeveloped regions of the 🇷🇺, but can the GDP per capita explain why the ethnic minorities have higher casualties’ rates in the 🇷🇺 army?
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Not quite. According to the statistical analysis done by Adam Lenton, ethnicity is a much higher predictor of a high military mortality rate than the economic wealth of a region of origin. The the lack of social mobility that the ethnic minorities experience in 🇷🇺.
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🇷🇺 is still a deeply imperialistic and xenophobic one:
-Non-🇷🇺 languages&cultures are viewed as “uneducated” or “inferior”.
-The rate of racist attacks are increasing (#amnesty 2021)
-Activists for the ethnic minority groups are routinely prosecuted
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The locals in Buryatia are acutely aware of the on-going genocide disguised as a military recruitment for the “Special Military Operation” by Kremlin, as you can see in Naydal's story:
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So, it seems that the Kremlin seems to be bound to fight democracy and freedom in Ukraine until the last Buryat.

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Part 2: The “mysterious” death of 🇷🇺recruit on the sinking flagship Moskva
The flagship Moskva was one of the best armed 🇷🇺 ships posing serious thread to UA coastal cities.
On 13.4, Moskva was sunk by 🇺🇦, a country with de facto no Navy. There were about 510 crew on board.
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Egor was doing his mandatory military service as a sailor on the flagship of the RU Black Sea Navy – Moskva.
For 110 days after the ship’s sinking, he was listed as missing and his father is one of many facing prosecution because he wants to know why his son died in war.
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Part 3: Saving Private Fedorov
Many depressive regions of the 🇷🇺 have few prospects to offer to their residents. Thus, the young 🇷🇺 men in provinces enrol in the army or private mercenary companies to earn money.
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Now, with the new “partial” mobilisation, we see an exodus of potential recruits-the long queues to flee&air-plane tickets sold for $16k. Of course, only the wealthy can afford to dodge the draft, the rest are the prime source for new cannon fodder material for the RU regime.23/

Many RU facing poverty sign for the army, ending up dying in UA. This is the case of the 20-year-old Andrei Fedorov (Zaozerny city, Krasnoyarsk) has died in the war in UA. Now, his parents are trying to return their youngest son from the army after they buried their eldest.
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This is just one of many stories of conscripts being send to UA to murder and die. Their families are silenced & mistreated by the RU Government & police. People are seen as tools and grieving families are nothing more than nuisance for the Kremlin’s regime.
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The poor & the ethnic minorities get sent to die for the dreams of the RU elites. With >53k KIA RU, UA liberating more territories & another 300k-1M mobilised new RU cannon fodder RU soldiers & their families should ask themselves: “What are the RU soldiers dying for?” 26/

Many thanks to @wartranslated and the team!
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