Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ 790 Russian soldiers from a single unit have died at Pokrovsk, according to a Russian combat medic, with another 900 having deserted according to leaked figures. Another soldier from the same unit says that losses are running at 80-90%. ⬇️

2/ The unnamed medic says that she is serving with the 39th Separate Guards Motorised Rifle Brigade (military unit 35390) at Pokrovsk. She describes how she was on the front line with "young guys" aged 19 or 20:

3/ "They were running around, and we had dugouts, I think. And I say No, no, fuck that. They ran, in short, into a Ukrainian minefield and it just tore them apart. Well, it's not like they were 200, dead, none of them died. Well, they were just blown up really badly.

4/ "We had to run, the medics, to pull them out. One had his heel torn off, another was fucked up, another came in with his shoulder through his arm.

They sent us two young fucking snipers. They only spent a fucking day with us in the dugout.

5/ "Then, bam – we went to the front line. Evacuation is a complete failure. We're fucking running. I say: where are the fucking snipers? There are no fucking snipers. They've fucking run away.

6/ "There's always this kind of shit going on there. They fucking get fucked up, then run who knows where, then you have to drag them out, fucking take them away.

7/ "Look, I have these lists, I have 48 pages. These are the dead, these are ours... In total, if you count, 790 people.

We had a commander at the time. He let them do whatever they wanted, he was straight with them. He was drunk. He was completely fucked up.

8/ "He just sat there, fuck it! Completely. I told him, “Give us a break, give us the city, we need to wash up, shave.”

9/ "We have, for example, one commander, the one we have now is a dumbass, he's as dumb as a brick. I don't know how much education he has. I think I'm dealing with a fucking teenager."

10/ The brigade, which is commanded by Colonel Denis Nikolaevich Polulyak, had over 900 men listed as AWOL as of 2 December 2025, according to recently leaked documents.

11/ This is clearly correlated with the stresses of the intense combat around Pokrovsk. After the brigade was transferred to the Pokrovsk area earlier in 2025, the number of soldiers who left their unit without authorisation tripled from 217 in 2024 to 617 in 2025.

12/ In a video recorded in late November, a soldier from Vladivostok with the callsign 'Fortuna' has spoken of the dire situation facing the Russians fighting at Pokrovsk:

“Fuck, it's tough, and there are so many guys getting killed here, it's fucking crazy."

13/ "No matter which assault we go on, everyone gets killed, everyone gets killed, fuck it... The losses are fucking huge. Look, for example, 100 people go in, and... Well, maybe 15-20 people come out, maybe even 10."

14/ The brigade has a long-standing reputation for treating its men brutally. Soldiers have complained of being beaten with rubber truncheons and threatened with execution to force them to go into assaults.

15/ One man says: "We're just meat, the most important thing they need is meat, and that's all." /end

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