More and more Russian forces are falling in the Ukraine war. Commanders should threaten execution if their soldiers refuse to fight.
Ukraine – In the Ukraine war, Russian troops are said to be forced to fight by their commanders, otherwise they face execution. This was reported by the Ukrainian weekly Kyiv Postthe information cannot be verified. Intercepted conversations between Russian soldiers are said to indicate that so-called blocking squads or anti-retreat forces are using death threats to enforce discipline on the troops. Some of the disclosures apparently come from the international news service “InformNapalm”.
Sea Kyiv Post is the use of blocking commands Russia not new, but this is the first evidence that Russian front-line commanders are actually making use of it. Prisoners had reported regarding it earlier. The radio recordings can be heard as a commander orders his group to go on the offensive. Otherwise, they risked being shot from behind. “An order from above: Anyone who does not go on the offensive will be shot on the spot,” said the commander in a recorded conversation. “Without any criticism, we’ll both be shot if we don’t do everything they want. Pass it on; if they don’t keep going, the whole group will be in trouble.”
War in Ukraine: Russian soldiers sharply criticize orders
Kyiv Post said a Ukrainian intelligence service recently released another radio recording in which Russian soldiers said they feared the rising number of Russian casualties. In a conversation between Russian soldiers, one of the two is said to have complained: “It’s simply genocide, the screening of people. If they don’t stop this soon, we really are going to put the Ukrainians in the Kremlin ourselves.”
Ukraine has “become a military training ground where the whole world tests its military weapons and we have been ordered to go there. Our losses are enormous. Those stupid volunteers who wanted to fight for the Fatherland to save people are just fools being led to the slaughterhouse.” In addition, in the conversation he expressed his attitude to the war and predictions regarding the future of the Russian leadership. He is said to have added: “That we came for peace and the protection of the people is an absolute lie.”
Eastern Ukraine: Huge casualties for Russian troops
The most brutal combat operations are taking place in eastern Ukraine in particular Ukraine war instead of. In the embattled town of Bachmut, the number of victims on both sides is enormous. The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Selenskyj said on Wednesday night (March 15) that the military command in Ukraine was unanimously in favor of defending eastern Ukraine and the besieged city of Bakhmut. (Alina Engel)
