1/ A Russian soldier fighting in Chasiv Yar says that new recruits sent to the front die almost immediately, with his own unit taking over 90% casualties. The fields are strewn with rotting corpses. To avoid having to pay compensation to relatives, collecting IDs is banned. ⬇️
2/ A soldier of the 88th Reconnaissance and Sabotage Brigade "Espanyola", called Ruslan, with the callsign "Rukha", has described conditions in the fighting for Chasiv Yar over the summer of 2025, in which thousands of Russians were killed and injured. 
3/ "They recruit people who don't know anything—millions are spent on [recruiting] them. They arrive—and immediately, they are 200s [dead]...
They're sent to the training ground for two weeks with an rifle. Just hold it, shoot it, teach it, and that's it. That's all they do."
They're sent to the training ground for two weeks with an rifle. Just hold it, shoot it, teach it, and that's it. That's all they do."
4/ He says that the new recruits usually die during their first combat mission.
Ruslan describes himself as "a saboteur by trade" (likely a member of a DRG, a sabotage and reconnaissance group). "There are six of us left: there were seventy, now there are six."
Ruslan describes himself as "a saboteur by trade" (likely a member of a DRG, a sabotage and reconnaissance group). "There are six of us left: there were seventy, now there are six."
5/ He describes how the battlefield is littered with Russian corpses that have not been recovered and are falling apart from decay, or are trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings:
6/ "You drive over corpses—there's no other way. It's like that, you just can't tell who you're driving over... We've got three brigades buried under slabs.
7/ "Those in the basement—they simply can't be pulled out, and those who lived on the first floor—they were all blown to pieces...
8/ "The road of life—it's strewn with corpses, the fields are just littered with them. Why don't they pull them out? They could be pulled out, but even if you wanted to pull them out now, they're all falling apart. You pull on his leg, and the leg comes off."
9/ According to Ruslan, his commanders have banned the men from collecting documents from fallen soldiers, because so many have been killed that it's too expensive to pay their relatives compensation for their deaths:
10/ "We used to go out and collect documents. Not corpses, but documents. Then we would bring them to the battalion commander and hand them over. Later, we were forbidden from doing this because it wasn't profitable for the Ministry of Defence...
11/ "Personally, when I had time, I would collect 70–80 military ID cards a day. Imagine that, in a single day. Just imagine — that's millions [of rubles in compensation], and there were about fifteen of us...
12/ "Fifteen of us would go out into the field and collect them: we would arrive and find 700–800 military ID cards. Imagine how much money that is [worth] — 700–800 military ID cards." /end
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