Russian marines have criticized Vladimir Putin for dragging them into a “massacre” in a leaked explosive letter.
It emerged when riots broke out in the Russian armed forces, with a video showing 2,000 recruits surrounding a general and shouting angrily: “Shame on you. “
Major General Kirill Kulakov, 53, was seen to have been humiliated in a revolt by men mobilized at his educational base in Kazan.
The commander shouted with chants of “Get out of here!”, “Shame on you” and “Down with the [Putin] regime!”
He was suggested through the crowd to “apologize” for the remedy of the men called to fight in Ukraine.
They say they lack food and hot water in miserable barracks and that they were given rusty for 50 years.
At one point, the commander is heard saying, “I’m answering your questions. . . ».
But a livid recruit shouts, “Damn general, you know where you’re sending us. “
Another shouts, “You’re sitting comfortably in one place. “
Major General Kulikov forced to call police insurrection to repair the calm, according to reports.
Putin has called in 300,000 men for his calamitous invasion of Ukraine, but recruits are said to be threatening to go to fight without education or equipment.
Alarming to the president, hardened foot soldiers have also expressed fury over the unpopular and costly war.
The leaked letter sent through Marines claimed that three hundred of them were killed in a four-day massacre in Pavlivka, Donetsk region.
They accused the tyrant Putin of treating them like “meat” and criticized the “incompetent” generals as “cannon fodder. “
Marine Corps commandos wrote to their regional governor Oleg Kozhemyako in Primorsky, Russia’s Far East, with the aim of getting their message across to the Kremlin.
They demanded that Putin be informed of the bloodbath and need an independent military commission set up to investigate.
The marines wrote: “Once again, we were launched into an incomprehensible attack through Generals Muradov and Akhmedov, so that Muradov can get bonuses from (Chief of Staff Valery) Gerasimov and his fiancé hero of Russia (medal).
“So we and the Kamchatka Marines advanced towards Pavlivka.
“As a result of the ‘carefully prepared’ attack through those ‘great commanders’, we lost another three hundred people in 4 days, killed, wounded and missing.
“We lost 50 percent of our military equipment, and that’s just our brigade. “
The demoralized troops also claim that commanders are “hiding” the chaos in Donetsk and “minimizing the number of casualties to hold them accountable. “
Addressing the governor, they wrote: “How long mediocre like Muradov and Akhmedov will plan army operations for their reporting and to receive rewards at the cost of so many lives?
“They don’t care about anything yet themselves, they call the others cannon fodder. “
The governor sent the appeal to “relevant authorities” and said it could be false, according to a report.
However, several Russian resources claim that the Marines’ letter is authentic.
It was first highlighted, first of all without the actual text, through the war journalist of Russian state television Alexander Sladkov.
He warned that “blood flows and flows” between Russian forces, with “heavy losses” of other people and equipment.
After claiming that the letter would possibly have been the paintings of Ukrainian special forces, he responded by denying that his account had been hacked and said, “The purpose is to save [Russian forces].
“Let them be heroes, not flesh combined with earth and boards. “
Reports also of numerous Ukrainian casualties in heavy fighting.
On Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry said its “attack teams and artillery fire defeated militant units” in Pavlivka and other villages.
But some claim that Russian troops fell in an occupied part of the village and were then kidnapped by Ukrainian forces.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that in Pavlivka the Russian army fired mortars, cannons and artillery rockets.
But his forces pushed back the Russians, who abandoned a T-80BVM tank when they withdrew.
This comes as the humiliated Putin continues to suffer primary setbacks in Ukraine after arrogantly believing he could sweep and take over the country in a matter of days.
Ukraine claimed last week that Russia suffered its deadliest day on the front line after nearly 1,000 foot soldiers were killed in just 24 hours.
A new death toll in the war suggests Putin’s war killed more than 100,000 Russians.
Telegram channel General SVR says the Russian leader has been informed of 77,291 dead in his normal forces since the clash began in February.
In addition, some 23,517 more people were killed in private military corporations like Wagner that are involved in their war.
And some 5,308 members of the Russian National Guard killed, the channel said.
The Russian channel has reported that the death toll is higher than other sources.
If correct, it would be a total Russian death toll of 106,116.
Meanwhile, it showed the moment a Ukrainian drone dropped grenades on a Russian soldier in a stern warning to invading forces.
The clip gave the impression of showing the unmanned military craft dropping grenades on a pro-Putin soldier in a trench.
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