The war. What is happening on day 1,645

The war. What is happening on day 1,645

Recruiters are luring Russian residents into military service by promising that they supposedly will not take part in active combat operations, although in reality they are being asked to sign a standard combined-arms contract. One such ad, “Cooks needed for rear-line troops (not assault!),” was illustrated with a photograph of a resident of Krasnoyarsk Krai. He was mobilized, ended up at the front, and was wounded. “Ads like that are deception. They go to the enlistment office to be rear-line troops in the ‘SMO,’ and in the end they wind up in assault operations,” he told journalists.

Read more about the tricks recruiters resort to in our daily war chronicle.

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The war. Day 1,645. Russians are being recruited for the war and promised: “Not assault!” A photo of a mobilized man wounded…

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