The New York Times reveals data obtained from Russian soldiers’ intercepted phone calls
“I also shot and killed civilians” confesses to the massacre of civilians
“Is it good for LG or Samsung?” Worries regarding choosing a TV to loot
“Civilians? We killed them all. If we let go, our location will be discovered, and we won’t have any food to give you anyway.”
“I’m thinking of getting a TV…Is LG or Samsung better?” “How are you going to get it?” “Well, I’ll have to think regarding it. The other kids got a bed the size of a bed.”
“Occupy Kiiu? Putin is an idiot.
We have no way to do that.”
At the beginning of the Ukrainian War, the Russian army advanced toward the capital of Kiiu, but when confronted with resistance and logistical problems by the Ukrainian army, they established a position in the satellite city of Bucha in the northern part of Kiiu and stayed there for several months.
The New York Times (NYT) reported that Russian soldiers at the time secretly made calls to their families, lovers, and friends in their home countries in the trenches in the trenches to tell them regarding their war crimes, disillusionment with the war, and dissatisfaction with the government. Thousands of cases were obtained and reported on the 28th (local time).
Soldiers may have thought that they had succeeded in secretly talking to family and friends while avoiding their superiors, but the conversation was being recorded by the Ukrainian intelligence service.
The New York Times said it had obtained data from Russian soldiers’ phone calls and cross-checked phone numbers and social media for nearly two months to verify their authenticity.
A soldier named Nikita told his girlfriend, “There are corpses on the street here.”
Then, the girlfriend asked, surprised, “Is there (the body) on the street?”
In a phone call with a friend, he said that the soldiers were looting.
“He’s stealing everything.
I found all the alcohol I had and ate it all and took all the money.
(Soldiers) are all doing this,” he said.
A soldier seriously asked his girlfriend which LG or Samsung TVs he found in a Ukrainian home would be taken home.
When my girlfriend asked how he was going to get it, he replied, “Well, I’ll have to think regarding it.”
“Others brought a TV the size of a bed,” he added.
Another soldier said he was driving a Japanese-made Kawasaki motorcycle and giggled with the woman over the receiver.
Some soldiers complained to the military authorities, saying they thought they were going for training on the phone with their families and were taken to the Ukrainian battlefield.
Soldier Alexei told his girlfriend, “The upper level said we were going to train.
“These bastards didn’t tell us anything.”
Some soldiers confessed that they were notified only a day before they left for the battlefield.
The soldiers also poured out their resentment once morest President Vladimir Putin and the military commander for sending them to the battlefield without giving them proper equipment.
If he had said this in his home country, he would have been taken to the police, the New York Times reported.
Ilya asked her lover what Putin had to say regarding the war.
When he heard Putin’s explanation that ‘everything was going as planned,’ he said, “You’re making a big mistake.”
“Putin is an idiot,” Alexander said.
They’re trying to take Kiiwu, but there’s no way to do it.”
“Mom, this is the stupidest decision Russia has ever made,” Sergei said in a phone call with his mother.
When someone asked, “Are the soldiers throwing away all their equipment?”, a soldier complained, “Everything used here is outdated.
The New York Times evaluated that the low morale and the lack of equipment revealed in their comments suggest the reason for the recent retreat of the Russian army from the Eastern Front.
In a phone call with the soldiers, some border residents reported that coffins containing the bodies of the dead soldiers were arriving one following another.
The soldiers replied that more and more coffins would continue to arrive.
The covert calls of the soldiers included a content that casually confessed to the massacre of civilians that soon shocked the world.
Sergei told his girlfriend that he had captured civilians, undressed them, and shot and killed them in the forest.
They did so because when they let them go, they might hand over their positions to the enemy.
When his girlfriend asked, “Did you shoot people too?” Sergei replied, “Of course you did.”
When asked why they hadn’t taken them captive, he replied, “To do that, we have to feed them, but we’re not enough.”
A few weeks following talking to his girlfriend, Sergei told his mother, “I went to the forest near the headquarters and saw a pile of corpses in civilian clothes.
However, even in such a horrific situation, some soldiers complained that they had to persevere and remain on the battlefield.
The combat allowance they receive is $53 a day (regarding 76,000 won), which is three times higher than the average salaries of soldiers in their hometowns.
/yunhap news
