Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Wounded Russian soldiers can only get out of the front lines by bribing doctors, according to a Russian Telegram channel, while a severe shortage of doctors and paramedics means that commanders have blocked medical staff from serving at the front. ⬇️

2/ Russian milblogger Platon Mamatov has posted extracts from a Telegram conversation on his channel. He says ambiguously, "I will not publish the story about a 23-year-old boy who was unlucky with his distribution. I do not want to feed the enemy propaganda with tasty texture."

3/ The author of the conversation was speaking to a female doctor who was serving in the war zone under a contract with the Ministry of Health.

The doctor told him that she had argued "with the military police, who are often extremely fucked up individuals."

4/ According to her, "fighters on crutches are driven back to fight" purely because of the decisions of chief medical officers, who can however be bribed to make a favourable decision.

https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1833148086442434577

5/ "In the unit, those who bought themselves a D [unfit] category go home, while those who really need to be written off, the chief medical officer writes that they are fit for service. As a result, only a few are written off due to health reasons."

6/ The doctor says that frontline medicine is heavily dependent on volunteer aid, citing the example of an ultrasound machine sent by volunteers from Ulyanovsk. However, medically trained personnel are in very short supply, leading to restrictions on their movements.

7/ "The command's position is that there are very few doctors, so doctors should not show their noses beyond the hospital. The paramedic is usually with them too. The maximum a doctor and paramedic can do is to meet a very serious case.

8/ Nurses exist, they periodically try to send them to units, but the local command is usually categorically against women being in combat: '[Women] don't have enough strength to drag someone away, they shoot badly, they dig even worse, why the fuck do they need them here.'" /end

Source:
t.me/diomeddog/3589