Intercepted phone calls from Russian soldiers reveal the horror: "We are disposable items" in the Ukraine war
Created: 12/22/2022, 12:22 p.m
By: Johanna Soll
The military leadership doesn't give a damn whether they come back alive - that's what Russian soldiers report about the Ukraine war.
Kyiv – Since Russia's ruler Vladimir Putin started his war in Ukraine at the end of February, Russian soldiers have been dying there.
However, the cause of their deaths is increasingly due to accidental friendly fire from their comrades rather than attacks by the Ukrainian side.
This is reported by the independent Russian news
website iStories
.
Drunken soldiers, careless commanders and the inept use of weapons are cited as the reasons for Russia's deadly mishaps in the Ukraine conflict.
Wiretapped telephone calls from Russian soldiers to relatives and friends at home revealed how they complained about the dangers and the way they were treated at the front,
writes
fr.de.
Russian soldier: "You have nothing to eat, you drink from puddles"
Ukrainian intelligence has released an audio file purporting to be a phone call between a Russian soldier and his mother.
The man reports that reinforcements have just been sent because "20 people are gone".
They were shot at and killed by their own tanks - "dirtbags".
"I'm telling you, there are more casualties from our own [guys]" than from the Ukrainians, he said.
Russian soldiers during target practice – video still from the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry © dpa/Russian Defense Ministry Press
Another alleged Russian soldier complained in an audio recording at a friend's home.
According to him, the military leadership "doesn't give a damn" whether their soldiers make it back alive.
"It's not a war, it's a disaster.
It's complete madness," he said.
"The only answer from the leadership: there are 300,000 of you, we really don't give a shit."
Only on the [state] First channel there are damn tanks, there's damn nothing here, bro.
There is nothing here, you have nothing to eat, you drink from puddles.”
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Dmitry Panov, a 30-year-old from Moscow, told independent Russian media
outlet Mediazona
that he volunteered for the war over the summer but then refused to continue fighting after commanders accidentally killed their own men at Novoselivka in the Donetsk region.
"We're just meat.
They don't want to know us, they treat us like some kind of animals being led to slaughter," Panow said.
Russian troops in Crimea refuse to fight
The commanders didn't even bother to inform Panov's unit that their location in the Kharkiv region had already been ceded to Ukraine.
After that, people realized “that we are disposable items”.
This realization is spreading among Russian troops fighting in Ukraine.
An entire battalion in Crimea has now refused to fight because the soldiers don't want to "die in vain," according to Telegram.
People in Kyiv are optimistic that the annexed peninsula will soon be liberated.
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According to experts, friendly fire occurs in every war, but
iStories
reports that the number of Russian soldiers killed from within the ranks has risen sharply in recent months and surpasses everything that has been seen before.
(Johanna Soll)
