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Russian army recruitment centres in Moscow see five-fold drop in applicants since last summer (kyivindependent.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mostly it was a joke about how much effort the Russian government has put into 'sparing' the politically important urban centers from feeling the effects of the war, as far as possible, and offloading the burden to rural areas and the ethnic republics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Oh, I got it. Right, I do suspect that the proportion of conscripts who suddenly found themselves as contract soldiers is probably much higher in the countryside.