A new mutiny by Vladimir Putin’s ‘cannon fodder’ troops has seen mobilised men refusing go to the frontline, claiming they are being sent ‘to the slaughter’
- Reservists said most of their battalion has been wiped out in senseless assaults
- There are instances of mobilised troops committing suicide rather than fighting
A new mutiny by Vladimir Putin‘s ‘cannon fodder’ troops has seen mobilised men claim they are being sent ‘to the slaughter’ and that their comrades are committing suicide instead of going to fight.
The reservists allege their officers openly call them ‘meat’, and say huge numbers of their compatriots have been wiped out in senseless assaults with no support.
In one clip, a group of troops from Kaliningrad harangue their commander and question the whole point of Putin’s war in a showdown meeting.
‘We are sent to certain death,’ they say. ‘For who, for what?’
It is just the latest in a long line of Russian troops refusing to obey orders and fight as stormtroopers at the frontline for the pro-Kremlin forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
Mobilised troops from the Siberian city of Irkutsk said that despite being drafted as defensive soldiers they were being sent to assault Ukrainian positions on the frontlines with no support
Ukrainian servicemen fire with a 105mm howitzer towards Russian positions near the city of Bakhmut, on March 8, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine
The Kaliningrad reservists, who were recruited from a Russian exclave that borders Poland and is further west than Ukraine, taunted their commander in a dark, cramped room.
‘You don’t want us to refuse [to fight]…? We better go to ****ing jail. Put everyone in jail, we’ll stay there.
‘No-one will go there [to the frontline]. How long is it [in jail]? 5, 7 years? 10?
‘We don’t give a ****. At least we’ll be alive and not throwing the rest of our lives away.’
They made it clear they would not refuse to fight to defend Russian territory, as they were drafted to be territorial defence troops. But they declared they would refuse to assault Ukrainian villages.
A ‘whole company’ of their comrades had died in a week, they said, as they told how men are killing themselves rather than go to the frontline.
‘One man went outside, sat on a bench, pointed the gun and blew his brains out,’ the commander was told.
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By: Miss Cherry May Timbol – Independent Reporter
