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Apparently explosive calls from soldiers intercepted: new Russia tactics? "Then your own people will shoot you"

2022-10-18T03:19:23.493Z


Apparently explosive calls from soldiers intercepted: new Russia tactics? "Then your own people will shoot you" Created: 2022-10-18 05:12 By: Marcus Giebel Call from the front: the Russian soldiers seem to be bemoaning their loved ones in the Ukraine. © IMAGO / SNA Only those directly involved at the front know what is really going on in the Ukraine war. However, the calls that are supposed to


Apparently explosive calls from soldiers intercepted: new Russia tactics?

"Then your own people will shoot you"

Created: 2022-10-18 05:12

By: Marcus Giebel

Call from the front: the Russian soldiers seem to be bemoaning their loved ones in the Ukraine.

© IMAGO / SNA

Only those directly involved at the front know what is really going on in the Ukraine war.

However, the calls that are supposed to come from there show how Russia is positioning itself and what personal goals some are pursuing.

Munich - In the Ukraine war, both sides are obviously only concerned with bringing the enemy to their knees.

Almost every means seems right for this.

It can be helpful to know how your opponent thinks.

And ideally, what he plans to do next.

Get insider information, so to speak.

Ideally, every soldier, no matter how simple, has them.

At least, telephone recordings indicate that they were intercepted by the Ukrainian secret service SBU.

It's about conversations that the men at the front had with their wives in Russia.

As so often in this conflict, the authenticity cannot be independently verified.

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A call circulated via Twitter by an Estonian businessman specializing in the translation of wartime material provides insight into the structure of the Russian troops.

"This intercepted call shows how the Russian defenses operate," writes the user, who goes by the name of Dmitri, and explains: The prisoners who are guarded by Mobiks - presumably the reservists who were drafted during the partial mobilization - are at the very front, with the regulars only in the third row Troops.

According to his translation, the soldier on the phone says at the beginning of the 85-second recording that they were told they were not in Ukraine.

Instead, they are inoculated: "We are 'on practice.'" The woman replies that she knows this: "But we have written to all the departments, nobody cares."

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The man then says that the bodies of those killed will not be returned and that this will not change in the near future.

There are many dead to mourn.

The woman mentions that she heard that he has nothing to eat.

The soldier confirms: “There is no food at all.

Whoever has no money eats the grain germs from the field.”

Then he points out that prisoners were sent to them: "They were taken somewhere close to the front.

And we sit here like protection troops.

If anyone tries to escape, we kill them.” The woman's curt response was, “What a horror.”

Russian tactics in the Ukraine war: whoever runs away will be shot by their own people

The caller doesn't really seem to question this tactic, though: "That's how it's set up.

We are the second line guarding the first line.

And behind us is the next line, you can't go back there either.

So it's impossible to run away, because then your own people will shoot you."

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This ends the record, which allows the conclusion that many Russian soldiers were only sent to Ukraine to kill their actual comrades in an emergency.

To avoid desertion.

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Calls from the front in the Ukraine war: "I hope I come back unharmed"

The content of another phone call, published and translated by Dmitri, is also interesting.

In it, a soldier stationed in Cherson initially scolds the Ukrainian troops who are approaching.

They had already come up to 50 meters from him.

"You're scaring me," replies the woman on the other end of the line.

Then he becomes more specific: two days earlier she was shot at.

"It's going very badly here," the man continues, adding: "Sunny, I don't know when I'll ever come home again, but I hope I'll come back unscathed."

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She then asks why he went to the front in the first place: "For money?" But she doesn't get a direct answer to that.

Instead, the soldier lets out his comrades, some are already "45, 50 years old.

Some in Moscow own a car worth millions, houses, private property.”

That's why he also asked why they went to Ukraine.

One, 45 years old, said he had come of his own free will "to defeat the Germans".

The caller adds: "These are the people we have here."

Apparently, at least some people were drawn to Vladimir Putin's narrative that Russia isn't fighting Ukrainians in Ukraine, but the West, NATO -- and thus Germany as well.

The records do not indicate when these telephone calls were made.

(mg)

Source: merkur

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