• perestroika@slrpnk.net
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    3 hours ago

    I recommend reading the article. It’s depressing, but clear.

    These guys, mostly, were killed for refusing to go on suicide attacks. Some for retreating. Some for refusing other orders. Some, possibly, for simply existing in the wrong place. The unlucky ones, for failed desertion (I hope that lucky ones outnumbered them and deserted successfully).

    Women and children, except for those who got caught on the wrong side of the front, fortunately, aren’t the typical casualties in a war with a static front. They get evacuated before the front crawls near. But they do get killed when glide bombs, missiles and drones are targeted at random buildings.