Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Morale is so good in the Russian army that its soldiers are deliberately committing crimes to get themselves sent to prison and thus save their lives, according to a veteran pro-Russian soldier in Ukraine who has been fighting since 2014. ⬇️

2/ The Telegram channel 'When the cannons started singing' provides an illustration of the Russian army's current state of mind, from "our friend and subscriber, a war veteran who served with the militia since 2014 and later with the Russian Armed Forces":

3/ "Here, people commit crimes deliberately to go to prison. There was this guy who called someone in his city and said the train station was mined. They took him in later.

4/ "I talked to him, and he said he'd had a one-way mission, and since they gave him a lot of money for the Special Military Operation, and this only gets [a sentence of] a couple of years, it wasn't the worst option.

5/ "People are thinking about how to get a short prison sentence to get out of the army.

I also think that if I'd gone to prison in '24, I'd be out a free man by now, heh.

6/ "Some people blow themselves up. I know someone who stuck his hand around a corner with a grenade, and the explosion blew his hand off. Now they're discharging him from the army.

People are fucking sick of it.

The cuckoo's been going crazy for a long time."

7/ (It should be noted that this isn't a foolproof method; there have been reports of convicts being beaten and tortured to make them sign military contracts.)

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