Russian conscripts sent "to the slaughter" in Kursk offensive
They were sent "to the slaughter" without any preparation. "We were supposed to die like dogs," say Russian conscripts about the operation to repel Ukrainians in the Kursk region. Hundreds of them are falling into Ukrainian captivity. "You can't imagine, Mom, how much I want to come home, how much I'm fed up with all this," we hear on the recording.
2:02 PM EDT, August 10, 2024
More prisoners are falling into the hands of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region in Russia. A journalist from TSN released a recording showing six captured Russian soldiers.
TSN station also published a conversation with two Russian prisoners. The first one, with a glove over his eyes, says they were forced to stand in full combat readiness for several hours, and during that time, they could not contact their commander.
The second man addresses his mother. "It's me, Vlad. Your son. I'm a prisoner of war. They just abandoned us. There was no support. Our general just sent us to (an expletive) to die like dogs. He sent us to the slaughter," he says.
"I'm fed up with all this"
"I urge everyone not to come here. Mom, I urge you to make as much noise as possible, run everywhere, and show this video to everyone. You can't imagine, Mom, how much I want to come home, how much I'm fed up with all this. They left us here without any military preparation, and that's it, we were left here. I don't want this to happen to anyone else. I really want to come home," says the young man.
Refused to withdraw conscripts
Shocking information is also emerging. "The Russian command has refused to transfer conscripts from the Kursk region to the rear," reports Agenstvo.Nowosti.
"The conscript soldiers who were in the region at the start of the Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region remain at their posts. The agency was informed of this by a source from one of the organizations providing legal aid to Russian soldiers (for security reasons, the agency does not disclose the source's name)," the statement reads.
We are talking about young and untrained men who are being treated by the Putin regime like "cannon fodder."
The agency recalls that in March 2022, a few days after announcing the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin stated, "Conscripts do not and will not participate in combat operations."
However, the day after this statement, the Ministry of Defense confirmed the presence of conscripts on the front. Conscripts were also on the cruiser Moskva, which sank on April 13, 2022.
Hundreds of Russians in captivity
According to "The Moscow Times," since the beginning of the attack on the Kursk region, hundreds of Russian soldiers have fallen into Ukrainian captivity.
On Wednesday evening, Ukrainian and Russian media reported that during the ongoing offensive in the Kursk region in Russia, dozens of Putin's soldiers were captured. The prisoners were taken near the village of Gogolevka, near the border with Ukraine. Another several hundred soldiers reportedly surrendered.
