According to Russian milbloggers, wounded Ukrainian troops are being redeployed and forced to fight, while also facing detention and inadequate medical treatment.
The Institute for the Study of War reported on 31 October allegations against the Russian military command for redeploying injured personnel to the frontlines of Ukraine, highlighting issues in the treatment of Russian Veterans. The report suggests that Moscow relies heavily on “meat-based” assaults led primarily by infantry. This results in significant Russian casualties in the Kurakhove region of Ukraine’s Donetsk oblast.
Over the past year, Russia has focused on seizing Ukraine’s controlled areas in Donetsk Oblast. Major attacks have been repeated near Pokrovsk and Selydove as well as other towns. Russia has suffered heavy losses, but continues to make progress despite its repeated frontal attacks.
ISW cites a Russian Milblogger and former StormZ instructor who reports that the Russian command sent injured soldiers from the 57th Motorized Rifle Regiment on the frontlines of Kurakhove. The same source claims the Russian command failed to provide adequate treatment to wounded soldiers, instead confining those troops in a “medical cellar” and demanding bribes worth 1.5 million rubles ($15,459) to release them.
The command allegedly justified this action by citing a shortage of personnel to sustain offensive operations. The milblogger reported that, while Russian authorities responded by transferring injured soldiers to hospitals and closing down this “medical basement”, such detention practices reportedly persist among other Russian units including the 109th Rifle Regiment stationed at Toretsk.
According to the ISW Report, injured Russian soldiers of other units face similar treatment. They are held in makeshift detention areas and pressured to go back to combat zones because Russia relies on high-casualty assaults on Ukraine’s frontlines to keep up the pace.
Putin met with Russian officials on October 31 to discuss his interactions with disabled veterans who, according to him, were satisfied with the government’s benefits.
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