POWs of the Russian Armed Forces in the war against Ukraine
Russia’s undeclared war against Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022, has lasted 17 days. During this time, the coherent and balanced military action of the Ukrainian armed forces has resulted in the surrender of enemy soldiers and officers. Losses in manpower have led to the recruitment into the army of all “whom they managed to catch” by the federation. Such brave soldiers have surrendered en masse and blamed Putin and the army command for their unenviable fate.
Captured Russian soldier: “Echelons behind us are killing deserters”.
The SSU published a video of an interrogation of a Russian soldier who surrendered. He said that as they advanced deeper into Ukraine, it became clear to them that they were not on a peacekeeping mission and that they were bombing civilians. However, there was no way for them to turn back. The soldier said that they were threatened by convoys, which, according to the commander, were coming from behind and shooting deserters. Another soldier told him the same information.
He also reported a riot on a Russian warship – 600 Marines did not want to go ashore near Odesa when they realized what was happening. “We were cheated in a brazen way, thrown like a piece of meat,” said the captive occupant.
Earlier, another captive described atrocities in his army: officers finish off their wounded soldiers, leave the dead on the battlefield, do not take back the corpses of their soldiers, and do not notify relatives.
https://news.liga.net/politics/news/plennyy-russkiy-soldat-eshelony-pozadi-nas-ubivayut-dezertirov
They take everyone. PMC Wagner recruits “all sorts of rabble” for the war against Ukraine
A few days after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the personal army firm Wagner started an indiscriminate recruitment. Moreover, all the restrictions that existed earlier have been eliminated for the “candidates” from near abroad.
According to the BBC Russian Service, whose journalists were able to talk to the mercenaries, there is now “a large recruitment for the Ukrainian war”. Contracts began to be signed with people who were previously kept strictly away from, and the backbone of the PMCs try to keep for the previously signed contracts in other countries.
“At the request of the workers there is open recruitment of security guards in the near abroad.” On February 28, when the Russian invasion continued for several days, such ads began to appear in the publics, through which the recruitment of mercenaries to the PMC Wagner was carried out before.
Almost all the restrictions that existed previously were removed for applicants: if a few months ago the PMC did not accept anyone except citizens of the Russian Federation (born in Russia), now the recruitment center in Molkino near Krasnodar invites people from the so-called “DPR” and “LPR,” the occupied Crimea, as well as foreigners. The only thing is that there is still a ban on hiring Georgian citizens. Previously, those born in Ukraine were not taken for fear of infiltration of saboteurs into the PMCs.
https://news.obozrevatel.com/society/berut-vsyakij-sbrod-smi-uznali-o-problemah-v-chvk-vagnera.htm
“Everyone is horrified by what’s happening in Mazyr.”
What is happening in the morgue in the south of Belarus? Where are the bodies of dead Russian soldiers being delivered?
Since the beginning of the war, the independent Belarusian and Ukrainian media began to report about morgues and hospitals in towns in southern Belarus, allegedly overcrowded with the bodies of the Russian military, says BBC.
Journalists paid special attention to Mazyr – a small town (a little over 100 thousand people), located about 60 kilometers from the Belarusian-Ukrainian border.
According to the interlocutor of the BCC, in the streets of the city there are a lot of military men – presumably from Chechnya, and cars with Russian license plates can be seen.
The BBC Russian Service was able to get information about what was happening in the morgue itself.
“The corpses are taken not even to a refrigerator, but to an ordinary room – 5×5 square meters, they are stored there for some time, they rot, stink – then the bodies are taken somewhere,” a source familiar with the morgue staff told the BBC. – The soldiers do it themselves, everything is guarded, only the head of the department has access.
“No one knows how many of these corpses there are, but everyone is terrified of what’s happening. Doctors think that somewhere there is a mobile crematorium or they just bury them.”