About 60 paratroopers sent to Belarus to fight in Ukraine rebelled and refused to fight. Soldiers from Pskov, the key air force headquarters in northern Russia, returned to their bases after refusing to fight.
SHIPPING HIS ASSISTANT
It is rumored that the soldiers could face prison sentences as Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu sends one of his aides to Pskov to investigate the uprising.
Stigmatized as a coward, they can be imprisoned
The soldiers who did not want to fight for the news in the Russian press were met with a great reaction. Soldiers returning to their unit were branded as ‘cowards’, while some were reportedly dismissed.
EXCLUSIVE PARACHIDERS OF MOSCOW
Ukraine claimed that the troops were Moscow’s elite paratroopers. Russian opposition organization Pskovskaya Guberniya said in a statement on the subject, “According to the information we have received, 60 soldiers from Pskov refused to go to war on Ukrainian soil. The soldiers brought to Belarus in the first days of the war returned to their bases in Pskov.” expressions were used.
“This is just the last of several cases where Russian troops refused to comply with Vladimir Putin’s order to invade Ukraine,” the agency said, noting that most of the soldiers have been dismissed and are facing serious criminal cases. made a statement.
RUSSIAN SOLDIER TOLD UP: THERE IS A LOT OF LOOT, I SEE IT PERSONALLY
23-year-old Russian soldier Vladimir Safronov, who was previously held captive in Pskov, told the Ukrainian authorities about the Russian soldiers’ problems with supplies. Stating that he personally saw the looting of the Russian soldiers, Safronov said, “We ate whatever we found inside the civilian houses in Ukraine. There is a lot of looting, I saw it personally. These were mostly senior sergeants and commanders.”
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS COMPLAINING
The news about the supply problem experienced by the Russian soldiers has been in the newspapers for a long time. Most of the young and under-trained Russian soldiers complain at every opportunity about the supplies, the weapons they are given and the harsh conditions they are in.
Ukrainian sources claimed that Russian soldiers from Khakassia and South Ossetia also returned home on foot after refusing to take part in the fighting.
