Putin Avoids Answering Questions About Conscripts on the Frontline

The war criminal Vladimir Putin has consistently claimed that conscripted soldiers would not be used in the war against Ukraine. Such statements have been made repeatedly by him and his spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. However, after the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched their offensive in the Kursk region and it became apparent that the border was being guarded by poorly trained, ill-equipped conscripts, Putin has been trying to avoid addressing this issue as much as possible.

Peskov redirected the question of whether conscripts drafted during the fall campaign would be sent to the Kursk region to the Ministry of Defense.

While the Kremlin’s position regarding the involvement of soldiers in the war with Ukraine was at least formally clear before, now Putin’s administration refuses to give a direct answer to this question, preemptively shifting all responsibility to the Ministry of Defense.

The message is clear: “We have nothing to do with it if your children are killed in the Kursk or Belgorod regions, or if they lose limbs or are captured by Ukrainians.”

Citizens of the Russian Federation, whose sons and brothers will be conscripted during the upcoming draft campaign, will have to direct their questions to Defense Minister Andrey Belousov. It’s beneath us to answer such questions. The tsar doesn’t deal with such matters – let the boyars answer for the lives of your sons. Though there’s no guarantee they won’t avoid the issue and start dodging as well.

Plans are in place to conscript as many as 130,000 young Russian citizens.

It’s becoming increasingly obvious that since Peskov is not answering this question directly, conscripts will indeed be sent to Kursk. Only propagandists and Apti Alaudinov are claiming victories and the “pushing back of the enemy.” The reality is quite different. The contract soldiers sent there are clearly insufficient to handle the military tasks of defending Russian territory. After all, a lot of cannon fodder is needed to storm the ruins in Donbas, which is more important to Putin than places like Sudzha and other settlements in the Kursk region. Because everything is going “as planned.”