Young conscripts claim abandonment as hundreds captured in Kursk
They were sent "to the slaughter" without any preparation. "We were supposed to die like dogs" — this is how Russian conscripts, who are falling into Ukrainian captivity by the hundreds, describe the operation to repel Ukrainians in the Kursk region. "You can't imagine, Mom, how much I want to go home, how tired I am of all this," we hear on the recording.
More prisoners are falling into the hands of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region of Russia. A journalist from TSN station published a recording showing six captured Russian soldiers.
The TSN station also published an interview with two Russian prisoners. The first, with a glove over his eyes, says they were forced to stand at full combat readiness for several hours and during that time they could not contact the commander.
The second man addresses his mother. "It's me, Vlad. Your son. I am a prisoner of war. They simply abandoned us. There was no support. Our general simply sent us to [expletive] to die like dogs. He sent us to the slaughter," he says.
I'm tired of 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 go home, how tired I am of all this. They left us here without any military preparation, and that’s it; we stayed here, and they left us. I don't want this to happen to anyone else. I strongly want to go home," the young man says.
Refused to withdraw conscripts
Shocking information is also coming to light. "The Russian command was supposed to refuse to transfer conscripts from the Kursk region to the rear," reports Agency.News.
"The conscript soldiers who were in the region at the time of Ukraine's offensive in the Kursk region remain at their positions. The Agency was informed of this by a source from one of the organizations providing legal assistance to Russian soldiers (for security reasons, the Agency does not disclose the name of the source)," we read in the statement.
We are talking about young and untrained men, whom the Putin regime treats like "cannon fodder."
The Agency recalls that in March 2022, a few days after announcing the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin said: "Soldiers performing military service are not and will not participate in combat operations. "
However, the very next day after this statement, the Ministry of Defence confirmed the presence of conscripts at 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, several hundred Russian soldiers have been captured.
On Wednesday evening, Ukrainian and Russian media reported that during the ongoing offensive in the Kursk region of Russia, dozens of Putin's soldiers were captured. Prisoners were taken near the village of Gogolevka, near the border with Ukraine. Several hundred more soldiers were said to have surrendered.
