‘No f***ing ammunition, nothing… Shall we use our fingers as bayonets?’
calls made by Russian soldiers in the first two weeks of July by the Security Service of Ukraine , the country’s top intelligence agency.by a Ukrainian intelligence source, provide a rare – albeit partial – glimpse into the conditions of some Russian soldiers on the frontline.
Another soldier, Maxim, from the Siberian region of Irkutsk, told his wife Anna on July 3: ‘That’s it. There is no second battalion left. They f***ing turned it to crumbs.’He referred to dead comrades as ‘cargo 200’, a term coined during the Soviet Union’s war in Afghanistan as a codeword for the zinc coffins used to carry home the bodies of dead Russian troops.
‘Basically, they couldn’t even retrieve the 300s. The 300s became 200s,’ Maxim said, meaning that the wounded soldiers had been left on the battlefield to die. Reuters traced one soldier all the way back to the day he was mobilised on September 29, when his mother posted a photo of her beside him in his uniform with the caption ‘they took him today’.
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