Ukraine trying to discourage their troops from not surrendering.
Russia has been advertising its "Volga" surrender radio-channel to all Ukrainians on the front lines. Its impossible to know real numbers, but basis recent media references, it may be increasingly effective.
So yours is the best explanation, especially given that this war is as much a propaganda war as anything
—”Ukraine trying to discourage their troops from not surrendering.”
Possible.
Now please explain this:
Russian Officers Killing Their Own Wounded, Say Captured Soldiers in Video
Not new for Russians, Solzhenitsyn wrote of mass shipments of disabled Russian veterans sent to the Gulag.
They were a drag on Stalin’s post-war economy.
In war, a severely wounded needs two or more to transport, and the Russians abandon their dead and murder the badly wounded.
How will this play out when Ivan goes home and word gets out of how he heroically murdered most of his squad?
Exactly...
Bingo. We have a winner.