The first batch of Russian conscripts began shipping out for Ukraine today, as Putin tries to plug holes in his armies after they were mauled at Kyiv's hands.Men - many of whom appeared middle-aged - were filmed waving goodbye to their families in the far-eastern province of Yakutia as they were loaded on to buses for the long journey west, to the killing fields of Donbas, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.Military commissars marshaled them away less than 24 hours after Putin declared the start of Russia's first mobilisation since the Second World War in a desperate attempt to stop his brutal invasion from collapsing.
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