Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ A Russian soldier says that his commanders banned the wounded from retreating from the battlefield and executed those who retreated without orders. The injured men who stayed there "rotted alive without medical care and water". He had to pay a $38,000 bribe to be evacuated. ⬇️

2/ A soldier who identifies himself with the callsign 'Boxer', serving in the Russian 137th Assault Brigade (military unit 01591) has spoken on video of the abuse which the men of the unit experienced from their officerss, in particular from 'Roma', the deputy commander.

3/ The man says that during an assault operation, "Roma was shouting there [over the radio]: forward, only forward. I also heard on the radio: if someone takes a fucking step back... like if you give in, roll back - you're fucked. Either you'll die there, or in the rollback.

4/ "You'll die anyway. You'll only go forward."

The wounded faced "a bad situation with water. The guys weren't drinking or eating. Some people were already going crazy from the fact that they would either shoot themselves or simply die right before their eyes."

5/ “People were rotting, the order did not allow them to roll back ... As a result, [the platoon commander] then began to beat the wounded, those who were seriously wounded. In general, it was fucking crazy. I looked at him and thought, what is he doing, this is lawlessness".

6/ Boxer was wounded himself. The men were eventually allowed to retreat after appealing over the radio for permission. "It had already started to stink, everything smelled. Otherwise, it was impossible to even be there alone."

7/ "Everyone understood that they wouldn't survive there for long, especially without water, without food, they were lost, they lost a lot, too much blood, so they allowed a rollback. They understood that the boys wouldn't make it because we were neutralised.

8/ "There was no water, nothing. We went out on the highway so that at least 250 grams of water would be dropped off for six of us [by a drone], they gave us one sip for seven ... In the end, half of us didn't make it."

9/ The soldier who evacuated them, a man with the callsign Stripey, threatened to shoot Boxer and leave him on the battlefield unless he gave him money. "He poked me in the face, threatened me with an assault rifle. I was just in shock in this car."

10/ "And I had to ask him a question.

- Maybe you need money?

- I need money. Do you have money?

- Yes, I do. 3 million." [about $38,000 – equivalent to a year's salary for a soldier plus his signing bonus]

11/ "It turns out that to save my life, I had to give 3 million so that he wouldn't zero me out. I was in shock ... Zeroing out the money of the wounded is some kind of fucked up."

12/ When Boxer got back to his unit's positions at the rear, he says that he saw that Roma had shot the wounded who had retreated without permission. "Those who rolled back, they were simply zeroed out, like an animal."

13/ "I was speechless because zeroing out a wounded person is the last thing he should do ... he didn’t give any help, he didn’t help the wounded. And after that, he should be called a commander?

14/ "I think such commanders deserve only death, those who raised an automatic rifle and shot a wounded person or didn’t let the wounded roll back."

15/ The surviving wounded men were all declared to be deserters ('500s'). Boxer says that Stripey told him: "'You know that you are going to zero. The next day you die.' I just simply was speechless."

16/ Stripey continued to extort Boxer, anticipating his imminent death: "He just needs to fucking take an assault rifle and shove it in his face. Because he shoves this assault rifle in my fucking face every day. Stripey demands money, a million two hundred [thousand] ($15,200).

17/ "To make me transfer it to his [payment] card. Every day when I wake up, "Where’s the money? Where’s the money? Where’s the money? Where’s the money?" " /end

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