Up to 80 Russian Marines from the Crimea refused to fight against Ukraine – media
Saturday, 12 March 2022, 21:09
Up to 80 Marines refused to take part in the war against Ukraine after landing in the Kherson region.
Source: media-project "Graty" with reference to a source in the so-called "law enforcement agencies" of the occupied Crimea
Details: Up to 80 Russian Marines refused to take part in the fight against the Ukrainian Armed Forces after they were landed in the Kherson region.
Allegedly, their command said that they were being taken to military exercises, but after landing in the Kherson region, they realised that they were set to fight against the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Part of the personnel died from the mortar fire of Ukrainian defenders.
They were allegedly returned to the territory of Crimea, where they signed reports of refusal to participate in the war. Among them were conscripts who managed to serve in the army for no more than a few months and had not even taken the oath [of the Russian military].
Conscripts were still forced to take part in the fighting despite a report of refusal.
Military prosecutors tried to intimidate the conscripts with threats to initiate criminal proceedings.
After Putin's speech to Russian women claiming that conscripts would not be involved in the war in Ukraine, prosecutors stopped the pressure.
According to sources of the reporting journalists, the Marines who renounced the war were sent to serve on Russian territory.
Previously:
- Putin has thrown new recruits, conscripts, and soldiers of alternative service into the war against Ukraine, who should not be involved at all in military action.
- On 9 March, the Russian Defence Ministry "regretfully" acknowledged that conscripts were fighting in Ukraine.
- Russian journalists also confirmed the presence of Russian conscripts in Ukraine. This can be seen as evidence that the Russian military command lacks contract soldiers to wage war, and that they have in turn decided to take the risky political step of using conscripts in the war abroad.
- On 7 March, the twelfth day of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, Putin addressed Russian women and assured them that he would not involve conscripts and reservists in military actions in Ukraine.
- According to the US Pentagon, as of 7 March, Russia had deployed all battalion tactical groups it had prepared for the invasion and occupation of Ukraine.
