military veterans Russia many people are against the war that was waged by the president Vladimir Putin from Ukraine. Several former Russian soldiers have even been repeatedly detained by the Kremlin for their open protests against the invasion of the neighboring country.
As reported The Moscow Times, Friday (7/10/2022), Vitaly Votanovsky, a retiree of the Russian Air Force with the rank of lieutenant colonel, is one of the strong opponents of the Russian invasion. He even thought that Russia would not win the war in Ukraine.
“Putin destroyed the resources of this country’s military mobilization with his own hands and now this idiot has launched into a war with the whole world,” Votanovsky said.
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“It created a situation where we couldn’t win.”
Votanovsky along with a number of other Russian military veterans were subject to wartime censorship laws and received anger from their former military comrades for criticizing the invasion and military mobilization in Ukraine.
“We (veterinarians) are all talking and discussing what’s going on,” said Nikolai Prokudin, a 61-year-old veteran who served during the Soviet Union’s 1979-1989 invasion of Afghanistan.
Like Votanovsky, Prokudin strongly opposed the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “There are people with identical opinions to mine, others less radical … But most people are deceived by propaganda,” he said.
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