Posted on 03/08/2022 10:42:35 AM PST by Morgana
A captured Russian soldier has described how he was shot at and his comrade killed after fellow troops opened fire on them when they tried to protect Ukrainian civilians.
In a video, the POW described how he and a lieutenant tried to save a woman in her 20s, and her mother, after Russian soldiers were given orders to fire on civilians on February 24 in Kharkiv.
In the clip, the captured soldier claimed he was shot in the foot, and the lieutenant killed, when other troops realised the pair weren't shooting at civilians.
It comes as a separate video showed a POW describing how 'many' Russian troops are fleeing the war - despite warnings from above that they face seven years in jail for desertion. In the first video, the soldier describes how people started hiding when Russian troops opened fire.
'Then your (Ukrainian) forces began to shoot at ours. And then, while ours were being shot at, me and my lieutenant were helping civilians.'
He said the two men 'decision to save civilians, Ukrainian civilians'.
Speaking about the two women they helped, the soldier said: 'The lieutenant ran over to them, began to take them out of the car, shouting "come over over here".
'In about 20 minutes, they noticed me and the lieutenant were saving civilians and an order was given to shoot me and the lieutenant and the civilians.
'The lieutenant was killed, then they began shooting at the mother. She died with him too.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
PS I never said I cared that the Ukrainians were not upholding the Geneva Convention just that they were not upholding it.
[[Ukrainians making Russians solderers eat the flag off their uniforms.]]
LOL- they should make them eat their own underwear too- just for good measure
Stalin did the same in WWII for soldiers in Battle of Leningrad........................
That’s hilarious, a new high in ridiculous propaganda. I bet you believe it, don’t you. I mean it’s on the internet and all.
“ That is how I told you all last week that Ukrainians were not upholding the Geneva Convention.”
LOL @ you for trying to make people feel sorry for Russian soldiers who are invading a country.
Re casualties, even the official Russian numbers are not good, if you take them at face value. Iraqi Freedom cost 173 American dead in 6 weeks. The Russian KIA count was 500 several days ago, a week after the invasion began. That is literally 18x the US rate on a weekly basis. And the Russians have (until Ukraine is pacified and absorbed) less than 1/2 the US population. In per capita terms, the Russians are taking roughly 40x the punishment per week that the US did in Iraq.
The US lost under 20 men a day in Vietnam. The Russians are losing 70 men a day in Ukraine. And that’s just the official Russian numbers. If you multiply by 2 to account for the usual Russian fiddling with numbers that gave Putin his $200b piggy bank ...
At minimum, morale might soon be a problem. Russians fought like demons in WWII for their lives. The Nazis literally wanted to kill them all:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_Plan
Whereas other Russian wars have triggered mutinies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_Russian_Revolution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution
https://twitter.com/olex_scherba/status/1501176753091395585
Russian army committing a war crime, shooting at and destroying a civilian car driving down the road
Maybe.
But a lot of the stuff is fake.
They’ve used movie stills to show people supposedly evacuating. Video game stills to show fighting, video from earlier conflicts as if it is now.
Really we have little idea what’s actually happening.
I’m not sure what a good source is.
Sorry. Not buying this at all.
You know it’s propaganda when it’s all one-sided reporting.
The real story is: supposedly private businesses are doling out extra-judicial punishment to Russians.
It’s like the U.S. State Department, the media, the Democrats, and multiple supposedly private businesses are in “lock step” against Russia. Who makes these decisions? That’s a lot scarier than Russia sending troops to Ukraine.
The Ukrainians and their leftist allies in the west are certainly winning the propaganda war in the west. Does it make any difference to the actual outcome? Maybe a little. The main side goal which Putin is likely a part of is raising the price of crude. When a “peace agreement” is reached shortly there will be efforts to keep crude prices high which benefits Russia greatly.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again.
I’ll believe the Russians have the situation in hand when I see:
Live from Kyiv! It’s Saturday Night!
Special Guest Host - Vladimir Putin!
Sure, the Ukrainian propaganda is in overdrive, but you know, eventually you’ve got to answer the question “Where’s the beef”? The answr “17 miles outside Kyiv and closing in” only works for so long.
I believe in cases like this news story? the Russians are lying to save their skin. they knew damn well why they were going to Ukraine and now they are having their flags cut off and forced to eat it.
Given how many countries the US has invaded over the years, we should care about protections for POWs.
Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian MoD, told media on Tuesday, Russian armed forces have destroyed 2581 military targets in Ukraine since the launch of the military operation on 24 February.
He also stated that 897 Ukrainian tanks and other armored vehicles, 95 multiple launch rocket systems, 336 field artillery systems and mortars, as well as 662 special military vehicles and 84 UAVs have been destroyed by Russian forces.
On Tuesday, Russian combat aircraft have destroyed 32 military targets in Ukraine, including four control facilities, three radar stations, two fuel dumps and 23 “areas of concentration of armaments and military hardware”.
And?
Russian Troops are doing what they do best , Looting
Wow, just like WWI.
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