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6/21/2025, 3:16:59 PM
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>A Russian veteran of the Chechen war who has deserted from the war in Ukraine has described how poorly-equipped Russian soldiers were forced into assaults
6/ One company of his battalion was assigned to a stormtrooper unit but was nearly wiped out: "during the first assault, 37 people out of 110 remained". The survivors were sent to Klishchiivka near Bakhmut and came under intense Ukrainian attacks.
https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1936133772694471108
7/ "There were "birds" [drones] everywhere, which directed shelling at us – even if there were only two people. We abandoned our positions and returned, they started telling us that we were 500s [deserters], we gently sent them away, pointing the barrels in their direction."
8/ The men were transferred to the 83rd Airborne Assault Brigade. By now only 120 people remained from their 496-man battalion. 30 of them, including Alexander, refused to go back to the front line. They faced physical punishment and severe pressure to recant.
9/ "Some were thrown into pits, threatened, people from the Investigative Committee came with an FSB officer, forced us to sign a report that we would atone for our “guilt before the Motherland with blood” – it’s like Stalin’s order “not a step back” –…
10/ …and sent us to the front lines. We refused and there was only one punishment – to the same front lines. They sent us right there. The choice was either either for you to be "zeroed out" [executed], or send you to the front lines, where the Ukrainians would "zero you out".
11/ "I was sent three days after our "rebellion" – we sat out not far from the contact line, didn’t even go to fortify ourselves. The entire area there was under artillery fire, so no one would check, there were no commanders there. And we went there, hid, somehow survived.
12/ "We were lucky. Not everyone, but we were lucky. And we weren’t the only ones who sat out like that."
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>A Russian veteran of the Chechen war who has deserted from the war in Ukraine has described how poorly-equipped Russian soldiers were forced into assaults
6/ One company of his battalion was assigned to a stormtrooper unit but was nearly wiped out: "during the first assault, 37 people out of 110 remained". The survivors were sent to Klishchiivka near Bakhmut and came under intense Ukrainian attacks.
https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1936133772694471108
7/ "There were "birds" [drones] everywhere, which directed shelling at us – even if there were only two people. We abandoned our positions and returned, they started telling us that we were 500s [deserters], we gently sent them away, pointing the barrels in their direction."
8/ The men were transferred to the 83rd Airborne Assault Brigade. By now only 120 people remained from their 496-man battalion. 30 of them, including Alexander, refused to go back to the front line. They faced physical punishment and severe pressure to recant.
9/ "Some were thrown into pits, threatened, people from the Investigative Committee came with an FSB officer, forced us to sign a report that we would atone for our “guilt before the Motherland with blood” – it’s like Stalin’s order “not a step back” –…
10/ …and sent us to the front lines. We refused and there was only one punishment – to the same front lines. They sent us right there. The choice was either either for you to be "zeroed out" [executed], or send you to the front lines, where the Ukrainians would "zero you out".
11/ "I was sent three days after our "rebellion" – we sat out not far from the contact line, didn’t even go to fortify ourselves. The entire area there was under artillery fire, so no one would check, there were no commanders there. And we went there, hid, somehow survived.
12/ "We were lucky. Not everyone, but we were lucky. And we weren’t the only ones who sat out like that."
>part 2
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