#deserters

2025-06-08

In "LNR" Russian Deserters Shot Dead A Commander

the criminals kill each other
that's good then the Ukrainians don't have to do it

charter97.org/en/news/2025/6/8

#WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #Deserters #army #Svatovsky #Frontline #war #Russia #WarCriminal #occupiers #defenders
#перемогаYкраїни

2025-02-26

Ummmm... From #wikipedia:

The #WagnerGroup (Russian: #ГруппаВагнера, romanized: Gruppa Vagnera), officially known as PMC Wagner (ЧВК «Вагнер»), is a #Russian state-funded private military company (#PMC) controlled until 2023 by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former close ally of Russia's president Vladimir #Putin, and since then by Pavel Prigozhin. The Wagner Group has used infrastructure of the Russian Armed Forces. Evidence suggests that Wagner has been used as a proxy by the Russian government, allowing it to have plausible deniability for military operations abroad, and hiding the true casualties of Russia's foreign interventions.

"The group emerged during the war in #Donbas, where it helped Russian separatist forces in #Ukraine from 2014 to 2015. Wagner played a significant role in the later full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, for which it recruited Russian prison #inmates for frontline combat. By the end of 2022, its strength in Ukraine had grown from 1,000 to between 20,000 and 50,000. It was reportedly Russia's main assault force in the Battle of Bakhmut. Wagner has also supported regimes friendly with Russia, including in the civil wars in #Syria, #Libya, the #CentralAfricanRepublic, and #Mali. In Africa, it has offered regimes security in exchange for the transfer of diamond and gold mining contracts to Russian companies. Wagner operatives have been accused of #WarCrimes including #murder, #torture, #rape and #robbery of #civilians, as well as #torturing and killing accused #Deserters.

[...]

"Early in 2020, #ErikPrince, founder of the #Blackwater private military company, sought to provide military services to the Wagner Group in its operations in Libya and #Mozambique, according to The Intercept. By March 2021, Wagner PMCs were reportedly also deployed in #Zimbabwe, #Angola, #Guinea, #GuineaBissau, and possibly the #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_G
#ErikPrinceColonialism #PutinsArmy #CorporateColonialism #Oligarchy

2025-02-07

"MY NAME IS ILYA KHARKŌW - I'm a writer from Ukraine, but I don't want to be labeled as a Ukrainian writer. In Ukraine, I'm seen as a criminal because I’ve rejected military conscription. Until now, due to the forced mobilization great number of men in Ukraine are persecuted and humiliated while locked in the country.
Fortunately, I was able to escape and get refuge in Europe. The Ukrainian authorities' intentions to deport me. War supporters hate me. My native town is occupied by Russia. Every day I experience difficulties of emigration. But all this inspires me to write."

ikharkow.com/author

#Ukraine #war #antimilitarism #russia #deserters #wrighters #europe

2025-02-04

...it probably feels "great" to go to die in a war where you are fighting so that the capitalist oligarchs and politicians who sent you there and are themselves sitting in safety can profit from the extraction of minerals thanks to your spilled blood...
applies to involuntary soldiers on both sides of the conflict

As #Ukraine considered how to sway a #Trump to continue supporting their country, one strategy was to appeal to Trump’s #transactional nature & offer him a deal — rare earth minerals — for aid.

Now Trump says he’s interested.

Speaking to reporters Monday, Trump said the United States wants Ukrainian rare earth minerals — such as #lithium, #uranium & #titanium — in exchange for the #security assistance that Ukraine depends on for its defense against #Russia’s invasion.

washingtonpost.com/world/2025/

#anarchia #anarchos #anarchy #deserters #Oligarchy #politics #russia #USA #war #capitalism #antimilitarism

2024-09-20

_The Evening Post_, 21 September 1923:
LOCAL AND GENERAL

The two #stowaways on the Rotorua, who were arrested by Constable Johnston when they were trying to steal ashore under cover of night, appeared for sentence before Mr. E. Page, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court to-day. Sub-Inspector Cummings said that the accused Frank White, 23 years of age, and George French, 19 years, were #deserters from the American Navy, but the Government of this country, according to the American Consul, did not want to have anything to do with them. Neither of them were wanted in the Dominion. If they could be sent back to America on the Rotorua arrangements could be made by the Consul to have them arrested on their arrival. A remand for another week was granted to enable further inquiries to be made.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/news

#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Wellington #LawCourts #NewZealand

Black-and-white photo: [Detail from] Some of Wellington’s public buildings and colleges. 1922. Description: Detail from the photo montage, showing the Magistrate’s Court on a street corner, with two cars (possibly taxis) parked on the kerb and pedestrians walking on the road and footpaths (BrE pavements, AmE sidewalks). The court building is two storeys and clad in stone. Citation: Supplement to the Auckland Weekly News, 21 September 1922, p. 39. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections AWNS-19220921-39-01. https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/photos/id/238986
2024-06-06

"Alle zeitgenössischen Konflikte haben ihre je eigene Genealogie, ihre eigenen Wetteinsätze und Risiken, aber es lohnt sich, einen Schritt zurückzutreten, um sie in einem grösseren Zusammenhang zu sehen. Unsere Hypothese lautet, dass sich gerade ein globales Kriegsregime herausbildet – ein Regime, in dem Regierungs- und militärische Verwaltungen eng mit kapitalistischen Strukturen verflochten sind."

Ich desertiere!

woz.ch/2423/globales-kriegsreg

Deserters of the world, unite!

#AntiWar #Deserters

UnionCommunisteLibertaire37ucl37@mastodon.online
2023-08-02

Ni/neither Poutine, ni/nor Zelensky :
Дезертиры всех стран, соединяйтесь!
Дезертириі всіх країн, єднайтеся!
Deserters of the world, unite!
#NoWarButClassWar #NeitherWashingtonNorMoscow #deserters #saboteurs #WarResisters #DropFoodNotBomb
#ClassUnity #ClassPride #ClassWar
@AnarchistCommunistGroup

Sticker in Glasgow
demi7en 🎗🇪🇺demi7en@infosec.exchange
2023-07-18

russians who turn refuseniks only because the benefits no longer oughweigh the 'downsides'... :drake_dislike:

russians who refuse to serve in a genocidal war because it is wrong :drake_like:

Of course all desertion from the ruscist mob *is* good news, but the lack of most basic of ethics... If they were victoriously committing genocide in occupied #Ukraine, apparently few would have any problems with that arrangement!

#russia #orcdom #muscovy #deserters #Ukrainewar #SlavaUkraini
@dw

2022-06-09

Europe-wide call for #protection and #asylum for #deserters and #conscientiousobjectors from #Russia, #Belarus and #Ukraine
Appeal to European Parliament and Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe
by Connection e.V., WRI, IFOR and EBCO

en.connection-ev.org/article-3

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2022-05-07

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