Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, part of Ukrainian national mythology (Ilya Repin, ~1891)
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, part of Ukrainian national mythology (Ilya Repin, ~1891)

From school to battlefield to grave: how Russian cossacks drive young people to war.

The All-Russian Cossack Society turns school clubs into pipelines for state-sponsored militarisation and recruitment for war in Ukraine.

Bellingcat shows how they shape an alternative mobilisation force.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251205-from-school-to-battlefield-to-grave-how-russian-cossacks-drive-young-people-to-war?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Cossacks #Russia #WarInUkraine #Military #Army #Soldiers #Mobilisation #Militarisation #WarRecruitment

From school to battlefield to grave: how Russian cossacks drive young people to war.

The All-Russian Cossack Society turns school clubs into pipelines for state-sponsored militarisation and recruitment for war in Ukraine. Bellingcat shows how they shape an alternative mobilisation force.

Bellingcat

@eunews

#peace in #ukraine requires:

Russians all OUT of all of Ukraine and Crimea
Bridge dismantled
#cossacks back in #Crimea
#ukrainians returned home
#children returned home
REPARATIONS for WAR DAMAGE
War criminals prosecuted in Hague
No soldiers within 50 km of border.
Russian Missiles decommissioned
Stolen art and gold returned to museums

What else?

Early color photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii and two Cossacks posing for a picture, 1916

"Make #russia small again!"🤣🤣🤣

From https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en

#French blogger #Xavier_Tytelman, during a visit to the museum of the National Library of #France, showed a map of #Europe from 1754.

"My God, doesn't it say '#Ukraine, land of the #Cossacks'? Look how far it stretches - very far. And what do we have to the north? The #Russian Empire or #Moscovia? That's #Mordor up north," he said.

#ukraine #putinisamasskiller #putinisawarcriminal @kardinal691

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

Many of today’s Ukrainians are descended from #Cossacks, free people living on the Ukrainian steppe.

They inspire Vadym, an officer who founded the ‘Spas’ Brotherhood to keep their tradition of rebellion alive.

Who are the Ukrainian Cossacks and why they have nothing in common with the Russians

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My misfortunes have been brought upon me chiefly by an incorrigible, though perhaps useful, race of mortals called #lumberjacks, whom, however, I would name the #Cossacks of #UpperCanada, who, having been reared among the oaks and pines of the wild forest, have never been subjected to the salutary restraint of laws. (t b) #gnihi #LetterFromABridge #StarAndGeneralAdvertiser #Anno1831