Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ A half-blind, crippled Russian soldier is reported to have been handcuffed in a pit, beaten, had his crutches broken, and sent to the front line after he appealed for help in a video. "The Russian army loves us all very much," he says in what may be his final message. ⬇️

2/ Stanislav Vitort signed a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defence in January 2024 and was sent to a Storm V stormtrooper unit in the 138th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade (military unit 02511).

3/ In March 2024, he was sent on his first combat mission, which ended in disaster. His column was destroyed and he received shrapnel wounds, a concussion, a brain injury and was practically blinded in one eye. His leg operation went wrong and left him dependent on crutches.

4/ According to his wife Daria, his commanders mysteriously "lost" all the medical reports and the recommendation of the chief physician of the Luhansk hospital that he should go back to Russia for treatment was ignored.

5/ "After which they sent my husband on crutches to the training ground, and the next day they took him to Belgorod," she says. "But he was soon sent back to the distribution camp due to his health condition."

6/ However, he was threatened there by officers: "'We'll send you to the very hell, you'll die there.' If something happens, he can't even run away, he can barely move," according to Daria. Her complaints to the Ministry of Defence and the military prosecutor have had no effect.

7/ Vitort published a video on social media, likely complaining about his situation. As a result, a colleague says, "He was taken away, either by the FSB or the military police, because he did something on TikTok." His phone was confiscated and his family lost contact with him.

8/ He got in touch again a few days later. His wife says he told her that "he was in a pit in Markivka [Luhansk region] for several days, then sat in the commandant's office in handcuffs, they beat him, broke his crutch and cane, and didn't let him contact me."

9/ "The commandant's office told me that he was supposedly alive and well, running around the training ground," says Daria. "And the deputy political officer Golubev claimed that he was undergoing examination in the hospital."

10/ "At the same time, his comrades say that he was sitting in a dugout under surveillance."

11/ Daria had hired a lawyer to help with his case, and a meeting with Vitort was arranged for 6 September. However, her husband sent her a video message to say that everything was fine and that she was to stop writing to the prosecutor's office.

12/ She says that "he later said that he was forced to film the video, through blackmail." (According to a text message, they threatened him with 'dirt' on his wife.) "As a result, on 5 September, two days before the meeting, he was sent either to Shebekino or near Volchansk."

13/ "The last time he contacted me was on 15 September," says Daria. "And since yesterday, I started receiving calls from my colleagues with bad news." She was later told by his unit that "he was wounded on 20 September. It was not possible to evacuate him. He may have died."

14/ At the same time, ASTRA reports, "Vitort's father was told at the unit that the man had been officially listed as missing since 2 October, and they had no information about the injury."

15/ Vitort's case is the latest in a number of episodes of badly injured Russians being sent into assaults, some on crutches and canes. One Russian stormtrooper was filmed after being killed trying to assault a Ukrainian position with a white cane. /end

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