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Jul 11 • 9 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
1/ A wounded Russian soldier has made a video appealing to be evacuated from the destroyed frontline town of Chasiv Yar where, he says, he has been stranded in a cellar for five months. ⬇️
2/ Chasiv Yar has been the scene of intense fighting since April 2024, in which thousands of Russian soldiers are likely to have died. Russia currently occupies about 90% of the town, which had a pre-war population of about 12,000.
3/ Murat Madzhitovich Gochiyaev of the 4th assault company of the 217th Guards Airborne Regiment (military unit 62295) says that he was wounded when he stepped on a mine while helping an injured comrade. Now, "I am alive, but I can't walk."
4/ He says that he was declared missing in action on 18 February 2025, but "no one is taking me out. I'm sitting in a cellar, with another 300 [wounded man]." Gochiyaev blames 'Miko', the company commander, and the deputy company commander, 'Albert'.
5/ According to Gochiyaev, neither officer is making any effort to evacuate the wounded. This corroborates reports from other Russian sources that in many places, few if any of the wounded are being evacuated.
6/ While the battlefield's dangers are part of the reason for a lack of evacuation, Russian commanders appear to be taking the attitude that "only in death does duty end." As long as a soldier can carry a weapon – even if he is crippled – he can still fight on the front line.
7/ Gochiyaev is clearly living in a cellar that is being used by other soldiers, given the impossibility of surviving for five months without food, water or medical supplies. Given the intensity of the fighting in Chasiv Yar, many others are probably also trapped.
8/ According to recent accounts from other units, commanders tell their men that they must "crawl out", as they will otherwise not be rescued. Many, probably most, of the wounded likely die on the battlefield, adding to Russia's huge casualties. /end
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Jul 12
1/ Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Russian soldiers have been executed by their own side during the war in Ukraine – a practice called "zeroing out" or "resetting to zero". It's not just a disciplinary measure but a reflection of rampant corruption and criminality in the army. ⬇️ Image
2/ The Russian army has always practiced execution of its own men on a far greater scale than any Western military, including that of Nazi Germany. A comparison of military executions in the two World Wars illustrates this point.
3/ World War I:
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🔺 Germany - 48
🔺 British Empire – 307
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🔺 Austria-Hungary - 1,148
🔺 Russian Empire – 10,000-20,000
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Jul 11
1/ A widespread 'collapse' of Russian airports triggered by Ukrainian drones resulted from a cascading series of disruptions. Airports lacked stairs to disembark passengers, aircrew exceeded their regulation hours, and planes ran out of space to park. ⬇️
2/ A Ukrainian drone attack on targets in the Moscow region on 5 July triggered Russia's 'Carpet' plan – when aircraft are grounded until the alert is over. On this occasion, however, it triggered chaos across 10 timezones, costing an estimated 20 billion rubles ($256 million).
3/ Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport was among the worst affected. It was effectively shut down between 5 to 7 July, with thousands of passengers delayed by many hours. The incident shows how Ukraine's attacks can cause huge economic damage even without physically impacting targets.
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1/ Soldiers of the Russian 55th Separate Guards Motorised Rifle Brigade say that their unit is a "conveyor belt" of robbery, torture and death. Commanders are said to systematically extort soldiers before sending them to die in assaults, even making them pay to carry weapons. ⬇️ Image
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1/ An unusually frank Russian commentary admits that few survive serving in a stormtrooper unit and that "the phrase 'experienced stormtrooper' is an oxymoron". Thousands of deserters are reportedly being punished by being sent to such units as an effective death sentence. ⬇️ Image
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1/ A former Russian police officer who is preparing for his imminent murder in Ukraine has recorded a farewell video explaining the circumstances of his death to his relatives. He says that a Russian major general has ordered that he is to die on the front line. ⬇️
2/ The video features a man named Mark Erikovich Sadykov, who says that because of some unspecified dispute, he was demoted and transferred to the 111th Regiment of the 9th Guards Motorised Rifle Brigade on the orders of "Major General Solovyov".
3/ (This may be a reference to Major General Igor Petrovich Solovyov, an FSB officer who has commanded an FSB special forces unit.)

Sadykov says he was a military police employee for seven years and a graduate of the prestigious Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School.
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1/ Russia is reported to be planning a major offensive into the Sumy, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions and an offensive against Odesa over the summer, using North Koreans to secure the Russian border. The Russian writer Maxim Kalashnikov calls it "practically fantastical". ⬇️ Image
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