Thread by @ArturRehi

More and more often, videos appear on the Internet where wounded Russian soldiers finish themselves off. Russia continues to advance and has made some progress in the direction of Chasiv Yar and Pokrovsk. There are also local successes in the Toretsk direction. The more
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furiously Russia attacks, the more such videos we see. Russian propaganda on all channels says that a soldier must "die for the Motherland", directly saying that it is a sacred duty not to surrender and to use the last bullet for oneself. The cult of death and pseudo-heroism.
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In addition, propaganda and political instructors already at the front constantly talk about the terrible torture in Ukrainian captivity. Russian soldiers, knowing how their own people treat them, easily believe this propaganda. The "don't surrender campaign" is promoted
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by the Russian government, because if a soldier commits suicide, his relatives are not entitled to posthumous payments. The more cases of self-inflicted gunshots, the better for the system. In order to reduce the desire to surrender, in September 2022, a criminal penalty of
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up to 10 years in prison was introduced for voluntary surrender. Some Russian soldiers decide to leave simply because they were tortured and abused in the Russian army. Some, because there is no rotation and they have been at the front for 2.5 years without leave. But there
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are very few of them. Russian soldiers rarely last that long. Some wounded are finished off by their own. Evacuation is difficult and risky, and the life of a Russian soldier is worth nothing in the eyes of their superiors. In principle, as is life in Russia in general.
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