Irkutsk reservists have written a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin for the third time asking for the transfer of assault units to defense. Because they have no preparation for operations at the front. The commanders don’t care – they would just shoot rebellious people.
Putin burning his own soldiers in the war in Ukraine is nothing new. Horror stories continue to circulate, such as men being sent off to war with only a few bullets to their antiquated and rusty guns. Education? “You don’t need that”, is a frequently heard response from commanders.
The conscripts are often promised training, which later turns out to be a lie. They have to go forward without preparation. “You are being made into hamburgers,” a Russian soldier told the New York Times.
Not everyone is standing still in Russia (yet).
Many are silent about the abuses – out of fear. But in the end, not everyone gets everything. Mobilized people now wrote in a letter to the Kremlin boss that due to lack of training they could not carry out all assignments because they did not have the relevant knowledge or experience. If they brought this to the attention of the military leadership, they received only threats in return.
For example, they would be told that they could be held responsible for desertion. There is no trace of human rights. On the contrary, they were forced to think they were just “consumables”. They could only go home if they were injured – that was the only chance. Phrases like, “Then we’ll send you on an offensive you won’t come back from.” It also happened that those who disobeyed orders were simply shot.
Seriously injured people just lie there
The conscripts also denounced the fact that only lightly wounded soldiers were helped at the front. The dead and seriously injured simply remain lying in order “not to have to lose technology unnecessarily”. The fallen are then simply assigned to the group of missing. And the slightly injured would be taken off on a stretcher in dangerous conditions and then taken to hospital.
Conscripts from Irkutsk had already written to Putin twice. Last time they asked the head of state to “do something about the lawless and criminal orders of the military leadership”.
Source: Krone
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