Heartless Putin breaks promise that young conscripts wouldn’t be sent to the war, as a soldier born in 2007 dies at the front just five weeks after turning 18

by TheExpressUS

48 comments

  1. Alexander Petlinsky was only 15 when the conflict started. He turned 18 on January 30 and died at the front five weeks later – meaning he was ordered to the frontline with no time for proper military training.

    Petlinsky was the minimum age for a conscript in Russia, but Putin has promised mothers that young conscripts would not be sent to the war, a pledge he has repeatedly broken. In sending Petlinsky he has done what he four months ago accused Ukraine of plotting – “ [the authorities in Kyiv] will lower [the age] of mobilisation to 18. And the boys will be driven to the slaughter”, said the Kremlin dictator.

    A database of the war dead, which Mediazona and the BBC Russian Service maintain, shows he is the first boy born in 2007 to die in the conflict.

  2. Took leave from medical school to sign up for genocide

  5. They are now paying 16 year old girls to get pregnant, so things are all going to plan.

  6. What a shock. Putler lied. Just like Trump, he lied and millions died. We need to send NATO combat troops to the Ukraine asap to push Russia back to 1991 borders, and then try Putler and his orcs for war crimes committed against the Ukraine. This war needs to end asap and Russia needs to give the minerals back.

  7. With an average life expectancy of 45 in Russia, 18 isnt young.

  8. He wanted to play Halo, now he got a halo? No. That doesn’t work here.

  11. I wonder if his parents finally got interested in politics.

  12. He made his choice.

    And that’s a choice he’s going to have to live with for.. oh, never mind.

  13. Johnson did the same thing in Vietnam. 17 years were assigned to holding companies doing post/base maintenance until their 18th birthday.

  16. They literally sent conscripts across the Russian border into Ukraine in ‘22. I can’t believe citizens of his nation constantly falls for this….

  17. Was he conscripted? I didn’t see anything specifically stating he was conscripted. As far as I understand Russians inside Ukraine proper are contract signers.

  18. Where was also this video of that 18-year old conscript complaining they just left him at the front right, anyone still remembers that one? It was from a week ago or so.

  19. So ,wat. Its only good for the world he will nevers get better from brainrot

  22. Putin making an even bigger problem for Ruzzia in the future.

  23. Could’ve stopped at ‘Heartless Putin breaks promise’

  26. This is an outrage and I hope the people of Russia will form a serious resistance against this mass murdering jerk

  28. Rule of thumb, fascist do the opposite of what they publicly say.

  29. That’s positive. The more young Russians are killed, the more mothers will grieve and maybe be smart about cause and effect.

  30. it makes no difference how old he was or how badly trained he was, he voluntarily signed up during wartime, and took up the uniform and an assault rifle with the intent of killing people.

    the young think they are immortal, that they themselves will single handedly win the war and come home a field marshal steeped in glory and everywhere there will be statues and monuments with their name on.

    reality: only one monument will have their name inscribed.

    they watch too many war movies and play too many combat video games… sat in a soft armchair safe at home.

    but real war, you cant turn off and go to bed, you are stuck there until it’s ‘THE END’ or ‘GAME OVER’.

    in a week he will be forgotten, no one will remember his name, not even his ‘comrades’ at the front. it’s a part of all wars that ‘you don’t ask the new guy his name – as he won’t be there in a week’.

    make no mistake, this is not a tragedy.. when the word ‘volunteer’ is used, it is an example of gross stupidity.

    there are no Heroes on the side that starts a war of aggression, only on the side of those forced to defend.

  31. Do people really think Putin care about this sort of stuff?

  34. Well at least he turned 18 unlike many ukrainian kids

  35. This is RU culture, it’s not even worth reporting here. We all hate RU’s and their culture already.

  37. I hate Putin as much as possible from this distance. However facts still matter to me, this is a bullshit clickbait headline in a rag of a paper.
    It deliberately uses ambiguous language to obfuscate the fact that the boy was not a conscript but a volunteer soldier. He could die for the British army at the same age.
    Putin tells plenty of lies I’m sure, why make them up?

  39. Dude, that’s a fucking bummer. Russia is the worst.

  41. For context, the average age of a U.S. soldier dying in the Vietnam War was 22.

  42. Family Rewarded, Praise the youngling of patriotic sacrifice SMO. Putin won’t stop, aggressor takes all.

  44. Oh ok, well stop killing Ukrainians.

    Can’t do that?

    I guess more young Russians need to die. 🤷

  46. When the war started it was odd to see soldiers my age from Ukraine being killed, now Russians a few weeks older than my younger brother are getting killed.

  47. I think this guy qualifies as a Darwin Award winner.

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