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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 73 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


KYIV, Aug 11 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy broadened his battle against graft on Friday, firing all the heads of Ukraine's regional army recruitment centres as the war with Russia enters a critical stage.

Zelenskiy said a state investigation into centres across Ukraine had exposed abuses by officials ranging from illegal enrichment to transporting draft-eligible men across the border despite a wartime ban on them leaving the country.

Ukraine has made cracking down on graft a priority as it fends off Russia's full-scale invasion and seeks membership of the European Union and has fired or prosecuted a string of high-ranking officials implicated in sleaze.

Zelenskiy said that any sacked army recruitment officers who are not being investigated should head to the front to fight for Ukraine "if they want to keep their epaulettes and prove their dignity".

Videos purporting to depict army recruiters aggressively pursuing or becoming violent with would-be draftees have gone viral on social media in the country, which has been under martial law since the invasion.

Zelenskiy said top general Valery Zaluzhny would be responsible for implementing Friday's decision and that new candidates for the posts would first be vetted by Ukraine's domestic security service, the SBU.


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[-] harcesz@szmer.info 83 points 1 year ago

Misses important bit;

"This system should be run by people who know exactly what war is and why cynicism and bribery during war is treason," he said, adding that those fired would be replaced by recent veterans and soldiers wounded at the front.

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[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I knew from reading the headline that Hexbear's horde of mouthbreathers would show up to brigade and spread their propaganda. Sure enough, here we are

Edit: You guys really are just proving my point lmao

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 73 points 1 year ago
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[-] Sasuke@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

what happened to freeze-peach?

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago

Brigading is whenever a Hexbear user uses the site like literally everybody else that got here.

[-] NoGodsNoMasters@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago

Brigading is when a post shows up in your all tab and you comment on it

[-] puff@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago

Brigading is when you federate and use the federation

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago

federation isn't brigading. a post shows up in our feeds, we click on it and comment because helping people dodge the draft is cool and good. We're one of the largest instances, and the consensus we have on issues like "conscription is bad" should not be taken as coordination on the part of hexbear users. If we did deliberately coordinate we'd all link you clowns to the thread where we did it because it would be funny.

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[-] Krause@lemmygrad.ml 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Propaganda is when you say the same thing Reuters, CNN, WSJ, etc are all saying about draft corruption in Ukraine lol

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

Actually mediabiasfactcheck.org says that Reuters is highly objective!

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[-] marx_mentat@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago

I'm just here to laugh at bazinga dorks crying for mods

[-] ahshidahfuck@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

Idk if "commenting on a post from another instance that showed up in my feed because the instance I use is federated with that instance" is brigading.

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[-] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 51 points 1 year ago

Very cool that the moment someone says "brigading" I can look at their profile and see, yup they joined in June. Wonder why that is 🤔

[-] Grimble@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

The wild canuck rages, for it has no values or culture to share

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

we've been doing lemmy shit for 3 years, youre brigading

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[-] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's not a good sign for Ukraine in what is an attrition war. Even their own military is making plans to smuggle their men out if the country because they don't want to send them to the death trap that is the heavily reinforced WW1 like frontlines. And Zelensky's response is just to fire and try replace the people doing that, instead of looking as to why that is happening. If the counter offensive tactics are so dire that your own military is doing corruption to avoid sending men to the front, maybe that needs reassessment.

Zelenskiy said a state investigation into centres across Ukraine had exposed abuses by officials ranging from illegal enrichment to transporting draft-eligible men across the border despite a wartime ban on them leaving the country.

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