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Grokenstein

(5,800 posts)
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 06:21 AM Nov 2022

Russia's Secret Recruits Allegedly Abandoned, Starving, and Missing in Action

Oh dear, won't someone please think of the Wagner orcs!!

https://www.thedailybeast.com/wagner-group-recruits-from-the-central-african-republic-allegedly-abandoned-in-ukraine

ABUJA, Nigeria—Russia’s infamous Wagner Group has abandoned dozens of former Central African Republic (CAR) rebels in Ukraine’s Donbas region after recruiting them to fight Vladimir Putin’s war, two former CAR fighters told The Daily Beast.

The CAR sources, who were recruited by Wagner after quitting the Union for Peace (UPC) rebel group last December, said that many of the 100 or so ex-UPC fighters currently in Ukraine have lost contact with Wagner after the group trained them and flew them to the Donbas region about eight months ago.

“Some of our colleagues have called us [on the phone] to inform us that the Russian soldiers who took them to eastern Ukraine deployed them to a particular town and left them to fight on their own,” Ali, who was not part of the group sent to Ukraine, told The Daily Beast. “As we speak, they haven’t been paid for months and they can’t even feed themselves.”

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Russia's Secret Recruits Allegedly Abandoned, Starving, and Missing in Action (Original Post) Grokenstein Nov 2022 OP
How can a leader of a country do this to his own ...... Lovie777 Nov 2022 #1
Seems like Russia is pretty much showing everyone who they are. Biophilic Nov 2022 #2
Many pictures on the internet now Quakerfriend Nov 2022 #3
it is part of Russian history littlewolf Nov 2022 #4
Hope the CIA is working on the "Putin Problem". Joinfortmill Nov 2022 #5
Shhh Roy Rolling Nov 2022 #6
Any supplies that were allocated to them were probably stolen and swapped for booze. n/t brewens Nov 2022 #7

Lovie777

(14,377 posts)
1. How can a leader of a country do this to his own ......
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 07:41 AM
Nov 2022

If a leader can do this to his own people there is no boundaries to what that leader can do to others. Case in point, Ukraine.

Quakerfriend

(5,574 posts)
3. Many pictures on the internet now
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 07:58 AM
Nov 2022

showing dead Russian soldiers that to have died due to exposure- frozen in place. And, it’s expected to get considerably colder next week.

This dreadful war, with so much suffering on both sides, must end !!

The Russian government does not care for their soldiers at all.

littlewolf

(3,813 posts)
4. it is part of Russian history
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 08:00 AM
Nov 2022

Stalin starved Ukraine in the 1930's millions died
now they can't feed or supply their own troops.
KARMA

Roy Rolling

(7,144 posts)
6. Shhh
Sun Nov 27, 2022, 08:59 AM
Nov 2022

It’s Ukraine’s problem.

It’d be a shame for them to find an abandoned cruise missiles or two with Putin’s GPS locked-in to its navigation system.

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