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> Scared Russian kids are fighting for crappy pay 1000's of km from their home against far more numerous people that are defending their families and their home country against an invader.

I noticed following in POW reels: there are no Russian POWs from Moscow, and central regions seemingly at all.

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Yes, noticed that too. All kids from the far East of Russia.

When the war started in 2014, there were many reports of soldiers refusing to fight against Ukrainians and the army recruiting soldiers from faraway republics to minimize the feeling of fratricidal war.

That has always been the Russian strategy, that's also why Russian riot police is usually from cities far away.

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