Russian Army Desert Confession: I stepped over already rotting corpses. I started to panic

The correspondent “The Insider”, who deserted the Russian army, like many others, was tricked into signing a contract and thrown into the front line unprepared. He served six months, was seriously wounded, and escaped. The man talks about extrajudicial executions of soldiers who refuse to take part in “meat” attacks, widespread alcoholism and drug addiction at the front, as well as the treatment of Russian military personnel in the army .

I went to the store, but I got a call

“2023. one night in the fall of 2011, I left the house to go to a nearby store, when a patrol car stopped and asked me to show my documents. I didn’t have my passport with me me, so I had to go to the department. They started pushing me, they said there was a summons against me, and they gave me some kind of paper – a transfer order or something like that. They said I had to go to front line in three days. They said I had a call and asked why I didn’t come to the army registration and registration office. They seemed to take pity on me, they said if I signed a ‘ contract I could go somewhere for help in the hospital. I thought – well, if I’m sent away, what difference does it make? I’m going to sign the contract , maybe that will help me. I signed the contract on Saturday, but already on Tuesday I was sent to the front. After about a week, I was already on the front line.

I remember 20 people died that night. No one came back. No one even reached the tanks. The next day they sent 20 more people. The same fate was waiting for them,” the man leaves.

To reduce the possibility of Ukrainian surveillance drones noticing Russian military troops, the commanders came up with the idea of ​​sending people into the “fog” when the sun is setting or rising already, and at the moment the drones see much worse. . However, despite this, about 30 more people had to be buried within a couple of days.

“Then they found out they can let two people in at a time instead of five. The news began to come that we had almost caught the city that was our goal, that we were already everywhere, but in truth we had not even gotten there.

People were sent to kill only because the boss, who was a former store guard, dreamed of seeing himself on “Channel One”, that he was a hero. He didn’t care what it would take…” recalls a veteran of the Russian army.

During the “capture” of the city, there was a shortage of ammunition, water and food. Another 70 people died during the week.

“There was no shooting or armed combat because no one even reached the positions. But there were the all-seeing drones. It was felt that the Ukrainian armed forces had at least a 50-fold advantage in drones. This is the most difficult thing – when you leave the dugout and realize that you will be seen. And at any time you can be killed. I went to the toilet, I went back in, and after 30 seconds, two bombs landed in the place where I went to the toilet,” recalls the desert.

He took an ax and cut off the handle

Within two weeks, out of 250 people, only about 15 or 20 had remained alive, of which 10 were civil servants, various platoon commanders, company commanders. There was very little movement left.

“When I arrived, that town was still untouched. Three weeks later it was gone, leaving only ruins and clouds of bodies. I argued with the commander for a long time. I said, “I’m not going to hunt anyone, you can shoot me here. I’ll be in the evacuation – throwing out the dead and wounded – and you can do as you wish with it.” I don’t have a medical education at hand.” I got ready and left. I cut him down with an ax that was used to cut wood shoulder and half of his leg. They didn’t even want to take him away to die , because he already understood that it was the end… Once I was sent with medicine to take notes, some water… I came to this place, there were many trees fell The area was hilly, so under the fallen logs it was as if I was crawling further, where the logs lay more densely I had already gone up to the middle and smelling something soft and quick I looked below me and they saw dead boys he went over the bodies. I started to panic,” the deserter shares his experiences.

There is no “Let’s Overthrow Putin” at the front

He also remembers the case when the battalion commander in particular sent a soldier who had just been sent to the front into battle, because he offended his relatives, who had sent a letter to the office of the prosecutor of emergency motion.

The boss has been drinking all the time. After he sent his subordinates to get a drink on the “road of death”. When someone was wounded, they were left to die, because it was dangerous to chase someone after them.

“Almost everyone drinks. Some commanders use promedol. Every servant should have promedol – a capsule or two – in the first aid kit. But they distribute it only on paper. You were given a medicine cabinet, you signed it, but there was no medicine in it. There was one promedol addict at the front, he could do anything for a dose. He ran around and searched the bodies. You need some kind of sight for a machine gun or something – he runs to the very “front” to loot the bodies, almost runs towards the position of the armed forces of Ukraine, just for a share get,” said the desert.

This also happened – if someone did not follow the order, they tied him to a tree and asked others to shoot from a distance of five to 10 meters. Or wearing two bulletproof vests. The commander fires a machine gun at these two vests. Even if someone survives in such a case, all their ribs are broken. And it just dies slowly. Or put a helmet on your head – and shoot the helmet with a pistol…

“Personally I did not see the execution, but judging by what I saw with the bodies, it is all true. But no one speaks at the front, there is no “let’s go overthrow Putin”. In fact, they say he did stupid things that no one should. Even the “patriots”, when they arrive, very quickly start saying: “What did we forget here, why do we need this?” There are some “Ura-Patriots”, but they, as a rule, do not stay long, because they are the first to flee and the first to be “put down”, remembering the desert

To all those who are going to go to war to conquer something, he says: “Take a gun and shoot yourself in the head immediately. The result will be exactly the same. “