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  1. Antimilitarism in the monsters' era

    Ades'if, zondag 18 januari om 13:00 CET

    What is going on with the expanded capitalist war fronts ? What are our positions and how do we stand firm on our principles ? Why don’t people fight for their “motherlands” ? Who are the people who try to turn our class consciousness into a logic of nationalism and militarism ? What is our material interests in the ongoing class war and who are our enemies ?
    A chance to discuss about positions, principles, necessities and duties.
    Discussion with the Initiative Olga TARATUTA, coming from the geography of France, Sunday 18 January at 13.00 in Ades’if (71, rue de Liedekerke)

    Anarchists Against Capitalist Wars

    Que se passe-t-il avec l’expansion des fronts de guerre capitalistes ? Quelles sont nos positions et comment rester fidèles à nos principes ? Pourquoi les gens ne se battent-ils pas pour leur « patrie » ? Qui sont ceux qui tentent de transformer notre conscience de classe en une logique de nationalisme et de militarisme ? Quels sont nos intérêts matériels dans la guerre des classes en cours et qui sont nos ennemis ?
    Une occasion de discuter des positions, des principes, des nécessités et des devoirs.

    Discussion avec l’Initiative Olga TARATUTA, originaire de France, Dimanche 18 janvier à 13h00 à Ades’if (71, rue de Liedekerke)

    acties.todon.nl/event/antimili

  2. 'Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022 and sparked the ongoing war, thousands of men have fled Ukraine illegally, escaping over the border or bribing their way out.' #ukraine #Україна #Zelenskyy #russia #Putin #war #deserters abc.net.au/news/2025-12-25/you

  3. Anarchist Communist Group: **Ukraine’s Voiceless Army: Ukrainian Deserters Speak Out**

    anarchistcommunism.org/2025/09

    The following article is from Assembly, an anarchist group in Ukraine, which they have asked us to re-publish. While the mass desertion of

    #Uncategorized #Antimilitarism #Deserters #Desertion #Russia #Ukraine #War

  4. #Russian #soldiers missing in action labelled deserters to hide casualty figures

    Russian commanders classifying missing soldiers as #deserters to obscure true scale of #battlefield losses, the Russian independent outlet IStories reported on July 28.

    By labeling missing soldiers as deserters, Russia not only conceals its true war losses but also avoids paying social benefits to the families of the deceased, the outlet noted.

    kyivindependent.com/russian-so

    #RussianCasualties #RussianImperialism #MIA

  5. Tuesday, July 29, 2025

    “Peace through strength is possible,” Zelensky — Investigation: Despite sanctions, American trucks are being used by Russia to launch kamikaze drones — Unidentified drone enters Lithuania from Belarus amid rising tensions — Ukraine liberates Kindrativka village in Sumy Oblast amid ongoing Russian offensive … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  6. Tuesday, July 29, 2025

    “Peace through strength is possible,” Zelensky — Investigation: Despite sanctions, American trucks are being used by Russia to launch kamikaze drones — Unidentified drone enters Lithuania from Belarus amid rising tensions — Ukraine liberates Kindrativka village in Sumy Oblast amid ongoing Russian offensive … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  7. Tuesday, July 29, 2025

    “Peace through strength is possible,” Zelensky — Investigation: Despite sanctions, American trucks are being used by Russia to launch kamikaze drones — Unidentified drone enters Lithuania from Belarus amid rising tensions — Ukraine liberates Kindrativka village in Sumy Oblast amid ongoing Russian offensive … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  8. Tuesday, July 29, 2025

    “Peace through strength is possible,” Zelensky — Investigation: Despite sanctions, American trucks are being used by Russia to launch kamikaze drones — Unidentified drone enters Lithuania from Belarus amid rising tensions — Ukraine liberates Kindrativka village in Sumy Oblast amid ongoing Russian offensive … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  9. Tuesday, July 29, 2025

    “Peace through strength is possible,” Zelensky — Investigation: Despite sanctions, American trucks are being used by Russia to launch kamikaze drones — Unidentified drone enters Lithuania from Belarus amid rising tensions — Ukraine liberates Kindrativka village in Sumy Oblast amid ongoing Russian offensive … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  10. Thousands of killed and deserters: Russian army suffers defeat near Ukraine's Pokrovsk

    " According to the documents obtained by the project, as of June 1, 2025, at least 8,625 servicemen of Russia's 41st Combined Arms Army were killed in the war against Ukraine. Another 10,491 are listed as missing in action, while 7,846 have deserted. "

    newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/thousa

    #WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #Pokrovsk #July16 #Frontline #army #update #war #Russia #WarCriminal #deserters #occupiers #defenders
    #перемогаYкраїни

  11. Thousands of killed and deserters: Russian army suffers defeat near Ukraine's Pokrovsk

    " According to the documents obtained by the project, as of June 1, 2025, at least 8,625 servicemen of Russia's 41st Combined Arms Army were killed in the war against Ukraine. Another 10,491 are listed as missing in action, while 7,846 have deserted. "

    newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/thousa

    #WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #Pokrovsk #July16 #Frontline #army #update #war #Russia #WarCriminal #deserters #occupiers #defenders
    #перемогаYкраїни

  12. Thousands of killed and deserters: Russian army suffers defeat near Ukraine's Pokrovsk

    " According to the documents obtained by the project, as of June 1, 2025, at least 8,625 servicemen of Russia's 41st Combined Arms Army were killed in the war against Ukraine. Another 10,491 are listed as missing in action, while 7,846 have deserted. "

    newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/thousa

    #WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #Pokrovsk #July16 #Frontline #army #update #war #Russia #WarCriminal #deserters #occupiers #defenders
    #перемогаYкраїни

  13. Thousands of killed and deserters: Russian army suffers defeat near Ukraine's Pokrovsk

    " According to the documents obtained by the project, as of June 1, 2025, at least 8,625 servicemen of Russia's 41st Combined Arms Army were killed in the war against Ukraine. Another 10,491 are listed as missing in action, while 7,846 have deserted. "

    newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/thousa

    #WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #Pokrovsk #July16 #Frontline #army #update #war #Russia #WarCriminal #deserters #occupiers #defenders
    #перемогаYкраїни

  14. Thousands of killed and deserters: Russian army suffers defeat near Ukraine's Pokrovsk

    " According to the documents obtained by the project, as of June 1, 2025, at least 8,625 servicemen of Russia's 41st Combined Arms Army were killed in the war against Ukraine. Another 10,491 are listed as missing in action, while 7,846 have deserted. "

    newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/thousa

    #WarOfAggression #Europa #Ukraine #Pokrovsk #July16 #Frontline #army #update #war #Russia #WarCriminal #deserters #occupiers #defenders
    #перемогаYкраїни

  15. War resistance in Ukraine amidst the hype about peace talks
    libcom.org/article/war-resista
    "It is already officially recognized that after the law on partial decriminalization of unauthorized leaving a military unit (SZCh in Ukrainian) and desertion came into force, desertions from the army of Ukraine have increased significantly. “I spoke with our elite units, both with the Airborne Assault Forces and with the Marines: the number of SZCh increased by 60%,” said Roman Kostenko, secretary of the parliamentary defense committee, at the end of January. Seeing that the ground is slipping from under its feet, the Ukrainian state is trying to take punitive measures."
    #deserters #war #RussianInvasion #Imperialism #UkraineWar #WarAgainstWar #Ukraine #solidarity #peacetalks

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. Exact numbers of deserters from the Russian army are very difficult to track down and verify. However, in connection with the partial mobilisation, about 650,000 men of call-up age fled from #Russia. According to the report of the Ukrainian #Military Intelligence Service (HUR) dated 29th April 2024, soldiers of the Russian Southern Military District, whose units are stationed in Ukraine, are leaving their posts in an increasing number. Military intelligence reported that in total, more than 18,000 soldiers of the Southern Military District have left their posts, of whom about 12,000 belonged to the 8th Combined Arms Army. Of this number there are about 10,000 mobilised conscripts and 2,000 contract soldiers. In the Russian 58th Combined Arms Army the desertion rate is about 2,500 soldiers. Earlier in April, the British Ministry of Defence said Russian troops in #Ukraine are mostly contract soldiers and reservists mobilised in late 2022, but pressure is often on conscripts to sign contracts. Russian #deserters are being helped by the organization Idite Lesom (“Get Lost”). This organization has already helped almost 1,500 soldiers desert the #Russian army and helped another 43,000 men completely avoid military withdrawal and deployment to #war.
    anarchistfederation.net/over-1

  22. "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

  23. 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

  24. 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 in 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

  25. Almost 300 people from Nenets minority from #Russia deserted during the fights in #Ukraine according to the criminal case started in Nenets Autonomous Region. Indigenous minorities are heavily used by russian state in the invasion. #Deserters