Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Russians who have lost arms, legs or eyes are being sent into assaults in Ukraine, with little chance of survival. Despite severe injuries, they are either being denied a fitness assessment or are arbitrarily being rated fit. The men call themselves "meat on crutches". ⬇️

2/ A Russian soldier has spoken of his experiences with a so-called 'cripple battalion' – a unit comprised of injured soldiers, which rather than recuperating or being allowed to heal or get treatment, is sent to the front line to take part in fresh assaults.

3/ 37-year-old Anton Savchenko from Tyumen – an ethnic Ukrainian with many relatives in Ukraine – volunteered to go to war in October 2024, saying that he "had to help". However, he soon regretted it, according to his relatives. Within less than a month, he had lost his left eye.

4/ His mother says: "They were immediately thrown into assaults. Near Selydove on 2 November, he was wounded. That is, not even a month had passed!"

5/ "A drone exploded near him – haemorrhage in the eyeballs, damaged the left eye (he immediately stopped seeing with it) and the entire left side of the body was filled with small fragments."

6/ "Did they pull them out? Are you kidding? They didn’t even let him go to the hospital."

Savchenko told his family: “We are running along the forest belt. It is very inconvenient to aim – the left eye does not see at all, the second eye is also failing.”

7/ He was wounded again two days later in another assault in which larger fragments lodged in his body. This time he was taken to hospital and told he would be given a fitness category of 'D' – permanently disabled. Instead, however, he was taken back to Ukraine in April 2025.

8/ His mother says: "On 17 May, he called and managed to say that their entire company was crippled – some without an arm, some on crutches, with shrapnel not just all over their bodies, but in their vital organs! And this entire company of invalids was sent to storm again."

9/ "To be honest, I thought that was it. And my son had disappeared from contact. But the day before, he called: “Mum, I survived. But I’m a colander – a drone flew into my back.” His entire back was covered in shrapnel. Now they’re taking him to the hospital.

10/ "But they wrote “shrapnel in soft tissue” – that is, [only] another 10 days in the hospital and they’ll take him back to slaughter. His entire back is like a sieve, but they’ll still send him back."

11/ "Everyone who survived in this company of cripples will be gathered again and driven into such a meaty storm."

12/ The relative of another man in the same unit says that he has been denied a fitness assessment [VVK] despite him having lost a spleen and still having a bullet in his lung.

13/ She says: "I don’t understand – either there’s no one else to take, or they’re “saving” on treatment. Like if they're going to kill him now, they don’t have to perform an operation or pay for three (!) consecutive wounds."

14/ "The funeral expenses will probably be cheaper for them."

A third man "was wounded in the eye, the second time - his legs were seriously injured. One of them was amputated at the knee, and the second almost failed due to injuries. He is on crutches."

15/ "Literally without half a leg! At first, he was sent to a rehabilitation course. But in the end, it was not started on time - they waited a long time for the results of the VVK. In the end, he was given category "B" - fit for military service with restrictions!

16/ "And they sent the legless man there, behind the ribbon [to the front]."

There have been many other such cases, such as that of 32-year-old Dmitry Mishin (pictured in the first post in this thread), who lost his right arm in the summer of 2024.

17/ Despite being assigned to category D and told that he was subject to dismissal, he was then told by commanders that nobody was being allowed to leave the army.

18/ Such accounts corroborate the testimony of the Russian doctor covered in the thread below, who says that she was ordered to "write ‘fit’ to those who couldn’t fight ... because he simply does not have an arm, leg, prosthetic eye, and so on."

https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1922191857204826532

19/ Another soldier assigned to a 'cripple battalion' also recently testified on video that "there are even one-armed and one-legged people among us. They forged all our documents, registered us as completely healthy."

https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1935668917713658211

20/ Russian soldiers on crutches or even in wheelchairs have been a fairly frequent sight on the front lines in Ukraine. It appears that Russia has adopted the Warhammer 40K slogan – "only in death does duty end". /end

https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1916437398331806136

Source:
sibreal.org/a/kak-na-front…