1/ Russian soldiers are still being sent to fight in Ukraine with broken legs, despite protests from Russian milbloggers. Meanwhile, injured soldiers who recorded a video last week have had their crutches taken away or have been sent to a torture camp. ⬇️ 
2/ The Russian blogger Anatasia Kashevarova reports that after a video was recorded by 50 injured soldiers in Ukraine, "more messages came about sending untreated mobilised/contract soldiers to the front from the Samara region and from other regions."
https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1808098253008744539
3/ The picture at the top of this thread shows a man with an external fixator on his leg, who Kashevarova says is waiting in the Samara region settlement of Roshchinsky for a bus to take him to the 'Donetsk People's Republic' in Ukraine.
4/ "This is the attitude towards Russian men," she complains. "You should not only fight others, but also protect your own. They are defending you, and you treat them so shabbily."
5/ "How can all our officials have the conscience to go to events, to make speeches, to speak high-minded words when they cannot solve real problems? When Russian Vanya stands on one leg near the bus, smokes, and goes back [to war].
6/ "Sleep well, he will defend you today on one leg, while you on two can't get your ass in gear and solve problems in the rear."
7/ The future of the original group who complained on video is still uncertain. Kashevarova says that commanders initially tried to claim that the men were a "special contingent" (i.e. convicts) and were therefore "not entitled to anything."
8/ However, she says, they are "a hodgepodge, not only prisoners, but also ordinary contract soldiers/volunteers." She reports that "a general came to their location and told [local commanders] to correct the situation. To divert attention, it was corrected."
9/ "But as soon as everything calmed down, some commanders again began to behave as before."
10/ Relatives have told her that after an inspection they were sent to a hospital and their phones were confiscated. Subsequently, despite their injuries, they "had their crutches taken away and are being discharged", presumably to be sent back to the battlefield.
11/ The man who spoke on the video is reportedly being punished more severely. Kashevarova names him as Artem Sharipov and says that he has been taken "to the military commandant's office in Zaitseve" in the Luhansk region. This has become a notorious place of detention.
12/ Many reports over the past 18 months have identified the basement of the House of Culture (community centre) in Zaitseve as the site of a joint Army-FSB facility where recalcitrant soldiers are starved and tortured to 'remotivate' them.
https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1671253659668344832
13/ As Kashevarova comments, Zaitseve "has already earned itself such a reputation that the basements of the Lubyanka [the infamous HQ of the KGB and now FSB] are resting."
14/ Meanwhile, Kashevarova reports, the authorities of the 'Donetsk People's Republic' are also intervening by "checking units... for under-treated fighters." However, "the command is trying to hide them." /end
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