Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Russian soldiers are being handcuffed to each other, pepper-sprayed, and beaten to force them to go to the front lines. A soldier says that ex-POWs and badly wounded men on crutches are being forced to fight. "They're just throwing us in for meat," he says. ⬇️

2/ Speaking in a video recorded in the back of a Russian army truck, a soldier from the 114th Motorised Rifle Regiment (military unit 24776) has recorded an appeal for help. He speaks of the violence being used against the men, and shows how he is handcuffed to a comrade:

3/ "People are being held against their will. They're being handcuffed and pepper-sprayed. Is that normal?", he asks.

4/ He says that none of the men should be there: some are former POWs (international law prohibits compelling them to re-enter hostilities against their captor), while others require medical attention. He says that he and others have been denied a medical fitness panel.

5/ The man explains that he has an injured leg caused by a shrapnel wound, while some of his fellow soldiers are using crutches. Despite this, he was handcuffed to another soldier and forcibly sent to the front. "Look at what kind of army we have in Russia," he says bitterly.

6/ Relatives of men from the same regiment have previously complained that commanders are denying men medical treatment or fitness panels, and have demanded large bribes to allow soldiers to go on leave.

7/ In March 2025, a soldier named Vladimir Nikolaevich Kisly recorded a video in which he explained why he was about to be executed by commanders in the 114th Motorised Rifle Regiment. He was one of many Russian soldiers to have recorded similar pre-murder videos.

8/ He described how he had been seriously wounded with a disabling injury and spent four months in a psychiatric hospital with suicidal tendencies. After being released from the hospital, he was transferred from the 98th Motorised Rifle Regiment to the 114th.

9/ Kisly's new commanders prevented him attending a fitness panel. He was sent back to the front line, where he expected to be "reset", or murdered, on his commander's orders:

10/ "They're taking me to zero [the front line], probably, most likely, to reset me. This is my last video message. If you can help me out, I'll be grateful. ... They say they'll treat you there. But now they're taking you to zero."

11/ Treatment of this kind is not unusual in the Russian army. A retired Russian paratrooper testified in August 2025 that the 98th Airborne Division was sending "half-dead" men to the front, handcuffed to their comrades. /end

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