Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Russian soldiers say they were forced to crawl across minefields, taking huge casualties, because their commanders had falsely reported to their superiors that their objectives had already been captured. Those who refused to attack were shot in the legs by their commander. ⬇️

2/ In an audio message published by the ASTRA Telegram channel, men from the Russian 15th Guards Motorised Rifle Regiment complain that they were "forced to take the so-called 'Moustache', it's a forest belt. We are forced to go to the minefields with our chests."

3/ "Why are we so driven there? Because the bosses have already reported that they have already taken everything."

They say that they had to attack a Ukrainian "fortress" guarded by four machine guns and a mortar.

4/ "In the course of a skirmish, sometimes a tank comes out. We have to go more than 50 metres across the open ground through minefields and capture 700 metres of forest, a strip."

5/ According to the men, in only 20 minutes of fighting, 80 out of 100 were wounded or killed. As for those who refused, the narrator says that their commander, call sign 'Utyos', "personally shot [them] in the legs."

6/ Relatives say that the 20 survivors have been sent to the Russian "concentration rehabilitation centre" in the basement of the House of Culture in Zaitseve, which operates as an FSB-run torture centre to 'remotivate' reluctant soldiers.

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1671253659668344832

7/ The whereabouts of this incident are unclear, but it's likely to be somewhere in the occupied Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine. Members of the 15th Motorised Rifle Regiment have previously highlighted their problems in the region.

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1584164368543256577

8/ It's also another vivid demonstration of the problem of institutionalised lying in the Russian armed forces. This is something I've documented before. Hundreds of Russians died in fighting to capture the village of Dovhenke in eastern Ukraine in the spring of 2022.

9/ One Russian soldier told his mother, "If we don’t take Dovhenke, there are three criminal cases now hanging over the divisional commander, he [will be] imprisoned ... It was reported three weeks ago that we had taken Dovhenke. And we, over there, are [still] fighting for it."

10/ Another soldier, Daniil Frolkin, said that his commander in the 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade had falsely reported the capture of a forest belt. The man was injured in a Ukrainian attack and had to be evacuated in Frolkin's armoured vehicle.

11/ For more on this culture of instutitionalised lying, see the thread below. /end

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1570169288849326082

Source:
t.me/astrapress/348…