Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Mobilised Russians say that their commanders ordered them into an assault despite their injuries and then abandoned them under heavy Ukrainian fire. After refusing, they were imprisoned by their own side in a notorious torture facility in north-eastern Ukraine. ⬇️

2/ ASTRA reports the account of Evgeny P., as told to his wife Evgeniya on 18 September. He says that while fighting with the 27th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade near Bakhmut in May, he suffered a shrapnel wound and was sent to hospital. However, he was not treated.

3/ Instead, he was sent with other injured men to Naro-Fominsk in the Moscow region and confined to a barracks for a week. He says that a military doctor declared them all fit to fight, despite their unhealed wounds. The men were sent back to Ukraine under a new commander.

4/ They were "taken in the direction of Svatove [in eastern Ukraine] and abandoned in the forest with no means of subsistence". (Many Russian soldiers have reported similar stories of being dumped in the forest without food or water and surviving on berries and puddles.)

5/ When the unit came under fire, the "commanders, senior company officers and everyone who was in charge there just ran away like rats, leaving the guys alone to die under shelling."

Not surprisingly, the injured men refused orders to go into an assault.

6/ Evgeny says they were rounded up and taken to Zaitseve, where hundreds of soldiers are reported to have been imprisoned, starved and tortured to 'remotivate' them.

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1592821499958030336

7/ Evgeny's wife Evgeniya says that she and her relatives "called all the hotlines, reached the head of the unit, but our requests and prayers for the salvation of the guys are simply ignored, citing the fact that, they say, there is a war, etc."

8/ "This is just madness and absurdity, the wounded boys were thrown out there just like cannon fodder!" /end

Source:
t.me/astrapress/380…