Russian deadbeat dads sent to fight in Ukraine after ex-wives rat them out
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Think your ex-wife is bad? Think again.
Russia’s deadbeat dads are now facing a more potent foe than vengeful former wives and high-priced divorce lawyers: They’re being sent to fight in the killing fields of Ukraine.
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According to the Daily Mail, in Sochi Putin’s police are rounding up shirkers and sending them to the frontlines, Vladimir Putin TV fan girl Margarita Simonyan is claiming.
Alimony is then taken from their military pay — or family compensation if they’re killed in action. The mothers of their children are then paid off.
TV host Dana Borisova, former Playboy model and army glamour girl, is calling for her ex-hubby to be sent to the firing line. The former couple is squabbling over support, the Mail reports.
In some cases, the women are even giving recruiting officers their former husband’s addresses.
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“I have a […] non-payer of alimony living in my neighbour’s house — the father of my daughter,” Borisova said. Unfortunately, he did not yet receive a [military] summons.
“I sincerely think that it would be great if he showed responsibility, if not in relation to his daughter, then at least in relation to his country.”
Borisova believes the only way to solve the problem is to send the cheapskates to the front.
And she is patriotic, and became the dream girl for young soldiers when she was 22 years old. The Kremlin celebrated her as a “national institution”.
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Soldiers are paid around $4,500 per month, about four times the average national earnings and eight times as much as in the country’s poorer regions.
One angry ex, Lilya Sergeyeva, said her hubby is in the slammer but that doesn’t help her or her teenage daughter. She wants him at the front in Ukraine where the casualty rate is astronomical.
She posted: “It will even be good if he gets killed.”
Russia pays out around $280,000 for families of soldiers killed in the line of duty.
Simonyan, 42, revealed how Sochi mayor Alexey Kopaygorodsky, 37, is chasing defaulting fathers and sending them to the front.
“[The Mayor of Sochi told me that] we took a list of persistent non-payers of alimony from the bailiffs and sent them [to the front],” she said.
“People who do not repay their debt even to their children will now not only do that but also will pay child support from very decent military payments. And these people will repay their Motherland.”
As Russia’s military continues to be beaten in battle, Putin has been desperate to bolster his faltering forces. He ordered a mobilization that will put 300,000 men in uniform, including old men, jailbirds and now, deadbeat dads.
But as a result, nearly one million men have fled the country to escape being drafted. Most of the new recruits are said to be marginalized.
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