Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Russian commanders are said to expect only 2% of convict soldiers to survive assaults, and are punishing soldiers who do survive, on the assumption that if they are still alive, it shows that they have disobeyed their orders. ⬇️

2/ Two Russian convict soldiers who are currently on the run after deserting – Vyacheslav Trutnev and Dmitry Ostrovsky – have recorded a new video accusing their deputy commander of imprisoning and causing the deaths of men who have survived assaults.

3/ The pair were last seen in a couple of rap videos which they recorded to publicise their complaints against their commander 'Prokop'. This time they have made allegations about the 109th Regiment's deputy commander, who uses the callsign 'Caspian'.

https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1847930620208419098

4/ The men say that in July 2024, 15 men in their unit survived an assault and returned to Russian positions, but were lined up by 'Caspian'. They say that he "accused them of failing to complete the mission, and the survival rate of convicts supposedly should not exceed 2%."

5/ Several of the men were wounded but were not allowed to go to hospital. One of them was recumbent and on a drip, but was forced to stand upright while 'Caspian' shouted at them. "Why the fuck did you come back? You're alive, convicts have only a 2% survival rate, etc., etc."

6/ "They walked a certain number of meters [towards the Ukrainians], as many as they needed. Why he decided that they had not done so is unclear. And in the form of, so to speak, punishment, he decided to throw them into a pit. This is a cellar that closes [likely a zindan].

7/ "And the wounded, he threw them all in there. They did not feed them in this cellar, they did not give them water. Well, maybe a bottle for how many people there were, that's all. But just so they wouldn't die of thirst, that's all. But they certainly didn't give them food.

8/ "Three of the wounded died immediately in the cellar. And the remaining twelve people, some wounded, some intact, he sent to carry out an assault immediately without weapons, without armour, without anything."

9/ According to the men, all twelve convicts died in the unarmed assault. "They kill their own men, in short, if something goes wrong ... People's lives are not valued, in short," Trutnev and Ostrovsky say.

10/ The dead were listed as deserters, rather than as missing – presumably to deny their relatives any compensation. "They are considered AWOL. With us, until the body is pulled out, we are recorded as AWOL, not even as missing in action." /end

Source:
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