Russian soldiers send a video message to Vladimir Putin in which they declare that their hierarchy, that they have ” never seen left them in trenches near Vugledar, Donbass, an area where heavy fighting is taking place. The video was broadcast by Telegram channels of pro-Russian military bloggers.
” You have before you what remains of the “Storm” squad of the fifth brigade of the first corps of the VIII Russian army “: thus begins the video message in which nineteen men in fatigues appear, some wearing a cap marked with the letter Z.
” This is the village of Vodyane, near Donetsk. This is where we are successfully progressing, according to our media. But in reality, this is not quite the case. The losses are considerable “says a Russian soldier in the video.
The men say they had to hold their positions under incessant artillery and mortar fire for two weeks, without the possibility of retreating, or risk being executed by Russian forces. Today, they say they are abandoned: We are without papers, without military booklets… We were thrown like homeless people into trenches filled with corpses. We have nothing left. »
If it is often the mobilized who challenge the Russian president, this time, according to Georgian experts, it is about experienced officers and soldiers, some of whom fought during the chechnya war. At the beginning of March, the Sibir.Realii site reported that most of the mobilized soldiers of an Irkutsk regiment, who had repeatedly complained of threats from their commanders, were killed in the battle of Avdyivka.