Kremlin boss Putin is facing strong opposition from his own population. More and more soldiers refuse to serve. In addition, activists are forming up against the rulers and mobilizing fierce resistance. Important war routes are being sabotaged.
More and more resistance is forming against Putin’s rule in Russia. The young section of the population in particular is turning its back on the Kremlin boss. There are also underground movements that want to put a stop to the Russian president.
For example, the activists from the Feminist Anti-War Resistance. “We want our country to know how Ukrainians are suffering from this war, how the economic situation of Russians is deteriorating. And we want to support all those who are being targeted by the Russian regime because of their anti-war stance,” Dasha Serenko told Welt am Sonntag. She is one of the heads of the Russia-wide – and now international – network of war opponents.
The activists from the Feminist Anti-War Resistance want to use the public to put pressure on Putin and increase doubts about his policies in the country. The activists get a lot of attention through social media channels. “We want to stop the war,” they say.
The feminists are raising funds for Ukrainian refugees, who are often forced to travel to Russia and need urgent help to get back to safe European countries.
The men and women of the so-called rail resistance behave much more radically than the feminist protest. Also via Telegram, they call for sabotage of railway systems. With success: since the beginning of the war of aggression, there have been numerous acts of sabotage on railway lines in Belarus over which Russian military equipment was transported. The saboteurs’ homepage reads: “Those who sabotage railway tracks save lives on both sides of the front”.
Putin is also getting a lot of resistance from the people who are supposed to be fighting for him in the war. The young Russian men are increasingly refusing to work. The Russian President has sent thousands of soldiers into battle. But now the motivation and combat morale of the Russian soldiers is falling more and more. Many career soldiers are terminating their contracts and want to go home as quickly as possible.
For example, 17 Russian soldiers who refuse to continue taking part in the war in Ukraine and who had submitted their resignation are being held in the Luhansk region. This was recently said by the lawyer Andrei Rinchino, head of the legal department of the Free Buryatia Foundation, in an interview with the Mediazona portal.
Lawyers and human rights activists provide information on the possibility of conscientious objection for Russians via the Telegram channel: “Appeal to Conscience”. “Since the outbreak of war, interest in conscientious objection has exploded, and there are likely to be 10,000 cases across all organizations this year,” a human rights activist told Welt am Sonntag.
