Russian politicians shouldn't be drafted to fight in Ukraine because they need to stay and explain the war, lawmaker says


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A Russian MP said Wednesday that lawmakers should be exempt from going to Ukraine. Dmitry Vyatkin said that it is their "duty" to stay behind and explain the importance of the war.His comments came after one member of the State Duma requested to join the fight.

Russian politicians shouldn't be drafted to fight in Ukraine because they need to stay and explain the war to citizens, a lawmaker said Wednesday, according to multiple reports. 

At a meeting of Russia's State Duma on Wednesday, Dmitry Vyatkin explained why lawmakers like him were exempt from the partial military mobilization announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier in the day, the BBC reported.

"Sometimes it seems that it is probably the easiest decision to walk away from solving problems here [in the Duma] and ... go to the front," Vyatkin, a lawmaker with pro-Putin political party United Russia, said at the meeting, according to the Russian news site Kommersant.



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