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By Guy Faulconbridge
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A small known patriotic radical which supports the widows of Russian soldiers has called connected President Vladimir Putin to bid a large-scale mobilisation of millions of men and to adjacent the borders to guarantee triumph successful Ukraine.
Putin, Russia's 70-year-old paramount leader, is nether aggravated unit to present triumph successful Ukraine much than 10 months since helium sent troops arsenic portion of an cognition helium says was intended to support Russians successful eastbound Ukraine.
"We inquire our President, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, to let the Russian Army to transportation retired a large-scale mobilisation," the Soldiers' Widows of Russia radical said successful a station connected Telegram.
"We inquire our President, our Supreme Commander-in-Chief, to prohibit the departure of men of subject property from Russia. And we person a afloat motivation close to bash this: our husbands died protecting these men, but who volition support america if they tally away?"
After ordering what helium formed arsenic a "partial mobilisation" connected Sept. 21, Russia's archetypal since World War Two, astir 300,000 further men were drafted, though respective 100 1000 much Russian men fled overseas to debar being called up.
The Kremlin did not instantly respond to a petition for remark connected the entreaty from the widows' group. Putin said past period that determination was nary request for an further mobilisation.
A typical of the widows' radical told Reuters that each acceptable Russian men should beryllium mobilised to support the Motherland.
"The coming warfare volition necessitate wholly antithetic resources: human, psychological, economic," she told Reuters. "Protecting the Motherland is simply a duty."
GEOPOLITICAL SHOWDOWN
Putin has for months been casting the warfare arsenic portion of a overmuch wider humanities conflict betwixt Russia and the West which the Kremlin main says wants to carve up and destruct Russia.
Western powers contradict they purpose to destruct Russia.
In a grim New Year's Eve message, Putin said that defending the Motherland was the ineffable work of each Russians and promised triumph successful Ukraine.
Ukraine and the West accidental Putin has nary justification for what they formed arsenic an imperial-style warfare of occupation.
The widows radical began enactment astir 2 months agone to assistance the wives of soldiers killed successful Ukraine and has contacts with the Kremlin administration, its typical said.
"We are successful changeless interaction with the statesmanlike administration, and if necessary, we transmit requests to it successful bid to person this oregon that support," the typical said.
Invoking Soviet person Josef Stalin, the radical said that present was the clip for pugnacious measures to support against the evil forces coalescing astir Russia's borders.
"Today, each the world's evil has agreed against Russia - the full Western satellite has turned against us," the radical said. "It's either america oregon them, determination is nary different choice."
Stalin successful 1942 issued Order No. 227 which became known arsenic the "Not a measurement back" order. It was an effort to found subject wrong the Red Army though thousands of Soviet troops were changeable by their ain broadside for alleged cowardice.
Stalin "did not deliberation astir ratings oregon dissatisfaction among dissidents: helium thought lone of victory," the radical said. "Now is not the clip to beryllium cowardly."
(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)
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