1/ 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, shot by their own side if severely wounded, and stopped by Chechen 'blocking detachments' if they tried to retreat.
https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1936133762087014664

2/ 42-year-old Alexander (a pseudonym) was mobilised in late 2022 and deserted in August 2023. Although he had health problems caused by his service in the second Chechen war in the early 2000s, these were ignored and he was sent to the occupied Luhansk region of Ukraine.

3/ Although he was based behind the front line, carrying out evacuations and building fortifications near Bilohorivka, his unit experienced continuous losses from Ukrainian attacks. They had to evacuate casualties from repeated failed attacks on a factory by Storm Z units.

4/ Alexander's men found "only corpses, craters" there. He blames a local battalion commander with the callsign 'Bely' ("White"), who "wiped out his Luhansk guys on the front line with constant assaults, especially when they were taking the local filtration station.

5/ "He killed everyone, and eventually got to our guys. They were evacuating the wounded, and he wanted to send them to storm. The first time he succeeded – the guys didn’t know what was what yet. The second time he shot them in the legs with an assault rifle."

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