Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ The Russian army is continuing to send grossly unfit men to fight in Ukraine. They include a crippled elderly pensioner, a man with a withered arm, and a legless man who has been designated an assault machine gunner. ⬇️

2/ The pensioner is – or now most likely was – 59-year-old Sergei Zuikov from Salavat, who was forced by his employer to sign a military contract in March 2025 despite having a spinal injury. He was not given a medical fitness review before being sent to Ukraine.

3/ Only two months later in May 2025, he was wounded by a mine explosion and received multiple injuries for which he underwent treatment and rehabilitation. His family say that he received no compensation for his wounds.

4/ He was sent back to Ukraine on 6 September, once again without receving a medical fitness review. His family subsequently lost contact with him and he was declared missing in November. The Russian authorities have not responded to the family's pleas for assistance.

5/ Zuikov's experience is not unusual, as men with unhealed severe injuries and even lost limbs have been sent to fight for at least two years. They have little or no combat effectiveness, but help to make up the numbers in frontline units.

6/ In a video published by 'Mobilisation News', several soldiers show off their injuries as they prepare to be sent back to the fighting. One has a disabled arm, and the machine gunner has lost his right leg below the knee. /end

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🔹 t.me/mobilizationne…
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