Putin needs to give it up: sending people older than 45 years old into warfare is no different than one way human wave suicide tactics. Disgusting
The photograph in the article is of a 1913 French bayonet charge drill, a tactic which in world war I which got absolutely NO where with Maxim Machine guns in the Western front mowing down attackers so configured. Now, Putin in his most benighted moment is utilizing conscripts above the age of 45 years old, in the bloody maw known as the Donbass front. As a person whom knows a lot of veterans and I do talk to them, knows full well that people in their 40s and 50s really are not configured for violent warfare: it is obvious that Putin does not care, and yet this barbarity is going to lead to enhanced death tallys in Donbass, as oldsters get the brunt of hand to hand combat, and wild shelling strikes
In a word, it is time for Putin to give it up. Utilizing old people for such roles will lead to many of them not coming back alive.
Eventually the news will reach Moscow as to this barbarity,. I wish Putin joy in terms of explaining how, say a 50 year old is anything other than cannon fodder.
In a word, it is time for Putin to give it up. Sue for peace and get out of Ukraine
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-offering-inflated-salaries-ukraine-war-volunteers-2022-6
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Russia is offering inflated salaries for volunteers to fight in Ukraine. Many of them would normally be considered too old to fight.
Bill Bostock?22 hours ago
Russian service members seen in Melitopol, Ukraine.?YURI KADOBNOV/AFP via Getty Images
Russia is offering inflated salaries for military recruits, many of whom are veterans beyond traditional serving age, to fight in Ukraine, according to reports.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has greatly depleted the country's military resources, with?an estimated 10,000 Russian troops?killed since February 24. Ukraine?said?last weekend that Russia was sending a large number of reserve troops into eastern Ukraine to reinforce its positions and break a deadlock.
Russian recruitment officers have recently started telling veterans to make their whereabouts known to the military, Jack Watling, a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute think tank,?told The Wall Street Journal.
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Those veterans tapped by Moscow would ordinarily be considered too old to fight. However, on May 25, Russia's parliament?voted to remove age restrictions for serving soldiers.
Before the change, recruits could only be aged between 18 and 40.?
Additionally, the military has raised salaries for contract soldiers to around $4,000 a month, complete with bonuses for destroying planes and tanks, the Journal and?BBC Russia reported.
A Russian military veteran of the 1990s Chechen war, identified as Dmitry, told BBC Russia that recruiters also offered to pay off his loans if he signed up to fight.?
Short-term contracts lasting just a few months are also being offered, with those volunteers receiving just three to seven days of training, BBC Russia reported. Previous reports have indicated that Russian fighters in Ukraine were?poorly trained and ill equipped.
Dmitry told BBC Russia that most of the volunteers who signed up with him in the Russian city of Rostov were people over the age of 45.
"In general, I looked at it all and realized that this is really a one-way ticket," he said.
BBC Russia noted that of 155 Russian volunteers it identified as being killed in Ukraine during the invasion, 57% of them were older than 40.
According to BBC Russia, conscripts and volunteers have three ways to join the war in Ukraine: By signing up through the Ministry of Defense, signing up through the Russian Guard in Chechnya, or signing up with pro-Kremlin separatist factions controlling the Ukrainian regions of Luhansk and Donetsk.
Russia's invasion is entering its fifth month, with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg saying last week that the?war could take years.
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Andrew Beckwith, PhD