“They send us to certain death”: story of conscript who managed to survive in Ukraine
VALENTYNA ROMANENKO – SUNDAY, 16 OCTOBER 2022, 16:15
The Russian military command deploys conscripted soldiers, who have not even been properly trained, on the front line, using them as cannon fodder.
Source: SOTA, Telegram channel / Russian news outlet
Quote: "SOTA got hold of an audio recording of the story of a soldier from the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Russia’s far east who was mobilised on 22 September. At the moment, he is getting treatment for the injuries he received on the front [the editorial office has photos of the injuries – ed.]. He states that by now, all 400 people mobilised from the island of Sakhalin in Russia’s far east have been either killed or injured [later, this phrase disappeared from the original message on the Telegram channel; the released audio contains only the information that 400 mobilised people were deployed on different fronts – ed.]".
Details: The geographical names mentioned by the soldier indicate that the events he described occurred on the Donetsk front.
The main points are as follows:
- Soldiers are hardly trained; they get a one-day training course in Russia and some training on the border with Ukraine; the training on the border with Ukraine lasts less than a week and amounts to drinking and casual shooting [i.e. in the air].
- Due to the absence of medical examinations, one mobilised man died from a blood clot.
- The mobilised personnel are being transported to Rostov Oblast in Russia on civilian planes.
- The troops on the front are hardly fed: they receive food only once every three days.
- The mobilised men are deployed first on the front line, ahead of the contract soldiers. In fact, they are used as a human shield.
- Unlike the Ukrainian army, the Russian army [presumably, the man referred to certain units, not the entire army – ed.] has no modern armaments such as drones or high-precision artillery.
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