A Deadly Russian Phenomenon In Ukraine

[@PrestonStewart]

Number 116 was just documented, that's six more in a matter of 2-3 days.

[@sergeyb8]

This is kinda scary and explains why there seems to be so much "meat" available. No one is forcing them to go there - vast majority is contracts. BUT, they don't value their OWN lives, let alone someone else's life.

[@ronix-p7q]

Jesus Christ

[@TroIIingThemSoftly]

🎉🎉

[@rocko7711]

🤣😂

[@TrineDaely]

And I'm not sure if you've talked about it before, but how about the bounty ru has for beheading UA soldiers alive and on camera?

[@sammurphy3343]

Killing yourself by knife or fire is absolutely horrorific.

[@lusiennn]

I can't feel sorry for them. Not after i know what they are doing with Ukrainians in captivity

[@adminadminson3147]

@@lusiennn i wonder if thats why they think they're gonna be tortured, maybe they saw or did something themselves.

[@ConflictedYouth]

​@@lusiennn War turns any civilized human being into a terrorist when things go unpunished

[@ShamefulDispleey]

Thats very American(dumb)

[@АлексейАлексеевич-м8к]

​@@lusiennnyou pig

[@Mrvl1234]

6:58 Grenade went off and shredded both of their legs. I speak Russian and Ukrainian and I watched this interview.

[@Inkkari9]

Where you can see it?

[@Mrvl1234]

@@Inkkari9 kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWHWhHaffd1rrLc&ab_channel=%D0%A2%D0%A1%D0%9D About 4:17 is when the guy starts talking.

[@Mrvl1234]

@@Inkkari9 Unfortunately KZbin won't allow me to link it. Ukrainian TCH(TSN in Eng) news network has it on their KZbin page video is about 3 weeks old.

[@lubumbashi6666]

​@@Inkkari9Why do you want to see that?

[@Inkkari9]

@@lubumbashi6666 cause im very sceptic of what people say, in internet escpecially. Also want to know russian conscripts views but there is not many interviews i have encountered

[@robsrockinout]

That topic sentence is one way to say, "I don't give a fuck about being demonetized." Thank you again Preston.

[@prestondickson1920]

You're welcome

[@neva6136]

"Russians don't surrender". It's a common saying in Russia, that every russian hears a lot, here and there. On the first glance It's typical nationalistic boasting that every nation has. But maybe it's a type of self-hypnosis and with time it even becomes part of your national identity. A voice that follows you. And of course it's only words, I mean, there is also "Russians don't leave their own behind". And, oh boy, we can find a lot of evidence to the contrary. Reality corrects you and your ideals all the time. You fall short all the time. But. When you are alone, when you are wounded and when you are hopeless, "Russians don't surrender" may sound very loud.

[@adrian333dev]

@@neva6136 japanese WW2

[@АлександрИванов-ч4б3с]

А при чем здесь русские? Российской Федерацией правят евреи. Все генералы в армии России, - евреи. А вы все рассказываете какие-то сказки про русских. Если вы не представляете, как выглядит предмет обсуждения в реальности, то ничего о нем и говорить.

[@adrian333dev]

@@АлександрИванов-ч4б3с балван

[@lacdirk]

@@АлександрИванов-ч4б3с Справляйся усерднее, нацистский придурок

[@MM22966]

@@adrian333dev Not quite to that level, but yeah. Nations have national characters.

[@mymyrd]

"The russian army has a problem. Their soldiers keep killing themself." Me: what a way to start a video...

[@frederickdouglass7140]

I dont care 😂😂😂😂 muga❤❤❤

[@TroIIingThemSoftly]

I don't see a problem 🤷‍♂

[@sleepingninjaquiettime]

Ok

[@daniellucena9694]

​@@TroIIingThemSoftly Frankly!!!

[@nikolaideianov5092]

​@@TroIIingThemSoftlyhey If they get captured instead they can be exchanged for ukranains

[@hardheadjarhead]

The Japanese in the World War II were told Americans would torture them to death. That in the notion that they were dying for the emperor were reasons they fought to the death. Of course, sometimes torture actually happens. Rudyard Kipling wrote: “When you’re wounded and lying on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains, and go to your God, like a soldier“. Same story. Different war.

[@johnathanwalker8395]

That Afghan woman is defending her home. She actually has the right to be there, unlike the invading soldier.

[@majorborngusfluunduch8694]

​@@johnathanwalker8395That invading soldier was there to destroy a credible threat to his own homeland. If these countries weren't festering with terrorists nobody would give a damn about them and nobody would invade them.

[@thunder3470]

All this bad stuff about the russians and yet they are still putting up a good fight.

[@majorborngusfluunduch8694]

@@thunder3470 They are NOT putting up a good fight. The performance of the Russian military has smashed expectations in all the worst (best?) ways.

[@johnathanwalker8395]

@@thunder3470 they put up good artillery, the fight from soldiers has been poor

[@kennethschlegel870]

Great video, also refreshing to hear a mature topic like this being discussed in the proper language it demands rather than saying 'unalived" or stuff like that.

[@gaian2000]

That is horrible. I served in combat with the 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam during 1968-69. I arrived in May, 1968 to find another general offensive in progress AFTER the Tet Offensive (in February). Within the first week of operations I was convinced that there was no way I would survive. Losing hope was hard but it was a relief in another way. I stopped worrying about being wounded or killed. Imagine my surprise when I came home in one piece and started college! I think this is one reason so many combat veterans take their own lives. Losing hope of survival was a relief and brought a sense of peace. Death can be seductive in that way. I came very close to taking my own life in 1978 and again in 1992. It felt like it would be better for everyone with me gone. I was lucky to pull back both times and I am astonished to be sitting at my computer, in good health at the age of 76.

[@sketch8988]

Glad you are here with us!

[@micheldaubigne7629]

Tragic topic but very professionally reported. Good Job Preston.👍

[@thiefsleef6752]

They kill themselves because of FPV drones. I mean who would want to get mamed by a drone and then bleed out with disgusting amount of pain?

[@Ryo_Le_Gos]

Exactly, I have seen so much drone footage that it led me to believe that these drone operators are pure sadists.

[@benbevan1442]

Its not just FPV drones. Russian injured are being sent back to the frontlines still injured from any injury combat related or no. Medical infrastructure and logistics is a giant in its own right and the Russians seem to be quietly ignoring it as a requirement. Rotation from the frontlines is also virtually non-existent, so suicides from stress, pressure etc is becoming increasingly common.

[@iplaygames8090]

@@Ryo_Le_Gos they arent in danger so they can afford to play with their prey. Same as american helicopter pilots in iraq.

[@Tony-x7k]

​@@iplaygames8090American soldiers don't sewer slide themselves after getting wounded Russians are weak even tho Ukraine has small military they still pushing them out

[@hecmen7298]

@@Ryo_Le_Gosmaybe they shouldn’t be invading Ukraine

[@ironmonkey720]

I don't think you properly addressed the third major reason. Drones aren't likely to take prisoners. The death dealt by a drone dropped grenade will likely be much longer and more painful than the alternative. The prospect of facing a swarm of take-no-prisoner drones is truly terrifying.

[@jloki9259]

The choice of a relatively quick death vs. bleeding out painfully over hours while hearing drones - that you don't know are Russian or Ukrainian - and may eventually find and attack you in your defenseless state - compounded by the horror of finding yourself alone and not knowing if you'll be rescued or if anyone even knows where you are! These thoughts are terrible to consider even as I write this. Being a combat vet, the scariest time is on the way to to meet or waiting to be found by the enemy. Surprisingly, actual combat is second, probably because you have no time to think, only react. But being alone with all the thoughts I listed and probably more...I can understand a suicidal crisis can take hold and the next clicking, whirring sound will be enough to pull that pin.

[@TheKitMurkit]

Well actually drones do take prisoners. They have to follow a drone and be taken a prisoner. But they just don't want to

[@seaflurry519]

I think this could be a really good other reason, Haven't seen nor heard too many cases of Russian guys surrendering to drones, And with the human element removed, I can imagine that disconnect adds towards any hopelessness, etc on the Russian guy's side

[@mlisaj1111]

Drones can take prisoners. You can watch videos of wounded Russians being dropped notes from Ukrainian drones telling them where to come to surrender, or dropping them water bottles, etc. And ..I don’t think being killed by a drone-delivered explosive is much worse or better than being blown up by artillery, or a mortar round, or a hand thrown grenade, or poison gas, or run over by a tank, or fatally shot by a long bow, etc. The idea that drones made war “worse” is silly.

[@ironmonkey720]

@@mlisaj1111 that does happen but I'm willing to bet it's a small percentage of cases. They don't have a backup drone with a water bottle and a note in case the Russian guy looks friendly. Also, the drone is chasing you and is highly maneuverable. It can fly into dugouts and buildings. If it chooses you, you're toast. If you are in an artillery barrage, you have a chance to duck for cover. And I'd even make the case that a majority of artillery kills are a lot cleaner than drone dropped munitions kills. Those drones are dropping grenades directly into your lap. Artillery is much more likely to be shrapnel killing you than having your face blown off as you try to breathe through the blood that's pouring down your open neck hole.

[@seanbinkley7363]

However you slice it, this is a grim practice that definitely doesn't need to be as common as it is in a modern army. Russia doesn't lack funds for treating it's wounded or providing some form of mental relief or treatment for them. They could take better care of their troops and instill a sense of comradeship that encourages their troops to take care of each other. This is something that can be avoided but it isn't and that's because those at the top of their military don't feel it's important.

[@thiefsleef6752]

Because Russia is surviving off of a death economy, it’s an interesting case you should look into because it’s driving Russias growth

[@haji1740]

Putin does not care about his subjects.

[@wlyFwd2140]

they are being told the ukrainians will torture them or worse but thats not at all the case. drop your weapon, raise your hands and live another day

[@fillosof66689]

No other modern armies aside from RU and UA has dealt with the particular scenario that leads to those forward elements being abandoned. I. E. a heavily contested battlefield fully controlled by drones and artillery, sometimes mined to all hell, where larger elements can't even gather to stage a major action, let alone surge force on a moments notice to try and save people stranded in no-mans-land. So you can't say how another military will choose to deal with such a scenario.

[@dx-ek4vr]

Russia may not lack the funds for good medical care for their troops, but their medical system is still badly degraded anyway, mostly due to corruption

[@alandevries7170]

Thanks for the report, Preston.

[@stever5731]

Just wait until those "soldiers" come home and unleash their PTSD on the russian "society".

[@PenTheMighty]

Already happened with a lot of Wagner mercs who finished their terms. While Prigozhin was a lot of things, he did at least try to see his men return home and was somewhat successful. So, a bunch of convicts got released and started causing havoc, end up arrested and sent back to the front. With Prigozhin dead and Wagner under new management, the Company is pretty much owned by the MoD and the rate of survivors has precipitously dropped. It's like the old Soviet has returned to Russia, in terms of how they treat their military.

[@amoonbeams]

Even among their own they are brutal to eachother.

[@Самогонныйаппарат-м7т]

Brainwashed retard

[@greybuckleton]

No different to any war really.

[@nutta646]

Already happening daily.

[@utbb57]

I also think part of it is in training where conscripts are horribly abused, physical and sexual violence to stealing their food and personal items. If they treat their own soldiers this way, why would they expect any difference from anyone else?

[@mikew8214]

A lot of similarities to the Japanese in WW2. It's almost became a death cult in Russia too

[@s.d.h.3t981]

You talking about Ukra-Nazis right?

[@FlinnGaidin]

​@@s.d.h.3t981 he's talking about your vatnik friends, Russian bot.

[@brokenpotato438]

@@s.d.h.3t981this is just pathetic, you can do better. You didnt even spell “Ukro” correctly

[@oliveryt7168]

Are you a Russian conscript or even a Russian? What do you actually know of what is happening nowadays?

[@dreacul]

Russians really don't have what to fight for. Many soldiers go into the army for the money. Most of them despise and see their leaders and society as very corrupt. The friend of a russian girl I used to talk to, also suicide in Ukraine last year. At first they've been told that he died in some unknown circumstances but eventually others who knew him said he sucked the barrel of his AK. She told me she grew up with him, he was from her neighborhood in S.P. that he always been an introvert and even hate Putin and always commenting about the russian politics. Eventually he went to Ukraine. Nobody knows how he got there he simply vanished. Now imagine how many are there like him and really have nothing to live for. Funny is that so many people who are tired of their lives here in Europe or USA think of alternatives, like Russia, that sound like better places compared to the west were society looks lost, degenerate etc but on the other side is just the same shit happening, only that's on a lower wage, poor state infrastructure, hell of a corruption and so on.

[@bee5440]

That's really sad to read. I hope she's doing okay. I can't help but feel bad for these guys

[@johnathanwalker8395]

@@bee5440 I don't feel bad for people who let a tiny group of asshole dictate their lives to the point of sending any men from outside Moscow to their deaths. Literally let one city control an entire continental nation. One city of red mafia controls the words, thoughts and actions of an entire nation. And they just cuckold to it.

[@pauliewalnuts240]

The count was 110 as of last night but theres also 40+ documented instances of soldiers having a buddy shoot them, false surrenders who then blow themselves up, & failed suicide attemps. soldiers can get up to $60k-120k usd for their death, which is life changing money for their families who receive millions of rubles.

[@jiyushugi1085]

Unfortunately for those families, the soldiers' commanders report them as MIA not KIA, so no payout. Saves Putler a lot of rubles.

[@xORLOCKx]

Yeah out of 100 deaths not even 1 family was reported to get paid out.

[@tracboy80]

Or a Lada

[@weaseltheweasel302]

the false surrendering was common place during world war 2 and was one of the many reasons the soviets managed exhaust the nazis of so much manpower

[@aleksandrs1422]

​@@xORLOCKx"was reported" yeah

[@4lrk]

I saw one where he opens his throat with a knife from right to left. I didn't think that was even humanly possible.

[@pablodelsegundo9502]

Russia is a global leader in hitting new lows.

[@jjjjrrr678]

Jesus

[@Pilvenuga]

the modern day representation of Imperial conditioning on the troops, now we get a glimpse of the mentality that was with the Imperial Japanese troops in WW2

[@paddington1670]

They know how poorly they treat POWs so they think they will get the same treatment, thus THAT is the projection of how poorly they treat POWs.

[@jamesoldham9995]

Saw that one too. That was one of the few videos that really gave me cold shivers.

[@randomdeath9207]

1 - used a knife 1- decided to lie down near fire . Have been both of those videos ARE crazy to watch honestly

[@JewlenskyBot-d6c]

How do you know it wasn't an ukranian? 😂

[@APB111]

@@JewlenskyBot-d6c How do I know you're a Russian bot?

[@GraveUypo]

@@JewlenskyBot-d6c well i know YOU are russian.

[@acid3129]

Did you see the one of the Russian killing himself with a grenade in his mouth that one was a little fucked

[@JewlenskyBot-d6c]

@@acid3129 did you see the one where an hamas agent shoves a pager inside a JewHostage? 😂 It's hilarious

[@schlirf]

Sad, especially considering that those guys aren't "Ethnic Russian" but only Fed Troops.

[@JanMaranCrazyface]

Not completely true. There are hundreds of thousands of ethnic Russian mobiks and contract soldiers

[@JohnWick-stardawg]

Nah,ive seen the videos. They're Russians,white Caucasians

[@o_______opanasovych]

They decided to sign the contract for bloody money. There were no forced mobilization as in Ukraine. Russians keep going into the war on their own will.

[@FrankThings-t2c]

I worry that a few of them are also Ukrainians from the 2014 occupied territories that got shanghaied into Russian service

[@JeffClark-yp6cr]

vast majority of russian troops right now are there voluntarily, risking it all for the newer lucractive contracts. in short, fuck em, they made an choice

[@austinhayes1733]

I usually dont enjoy podcast type videos, but i can chill with the way you give out info, and the info you give out. Thanks. Will subcribe

[@sgtcrash4775]

I first came across your page at the beginning of the war, and I've been a fan ever since.. with that said and after watching this video I can't help but wonder how many of my fellow Americans truly have no idea of war

[@jloki9259]

There are many combat veterans in America. What the American people don't and can't really understand is living in a country under invasion and all that comes with it. We're very lucky to be bordered by two oceans.

[@bananbananowy3552]

Thank you for exploring this topic. When I first encountered this I couldn't wrap my head, why would they do something like that so frequently.

[@MaxHohenstaufen]

If you're wounded beyond repair and all you have left is a few minutes or hours of pain, that's probably not a terrible idea. That's what I got from reading what it says on the posts shown here.

[@kruger7796]

There are plenty of videos of russian soldiers who are not hurt who commit suicide rather than being captured. So the vatnik propaganda is working on some of them

[@looinrims]

“The Russian army has a problem” Belousov: “oh my god, where to start?!”

[@roopeseppanen9029]

Also one thing that i think plays a very big role but was not mentioned is the experiences of Russian soldiers in the conflicts in Afghanistan and especially in Chechnya, many Russian soldiers currently serving in Ukraine also fought in Chechnya and those who didnt definately have heard the often very real horror stories of what the Chechen fighters did to Russian POW's then. The Russian veterans of Chechnya had probably come to terms with the decicion of choocing death rather than captivity a long time ago already before pointing their rifles barrell to the roof of their mouth and squeezing the trigger while lying on some Ukrainian field.

[@nikitajukov4915]

Syria involment dealing with all sorts of completely non-ISIS forces was also recent example of such POW treatment.

[@mathieusimoneau3358]

I wonder how long i could hold myself before turning into an animal watching my schools and hospitals get shelled. The Chechen lived it and the Russian veterans who participated in that do not deserve empathy.

[@ZootyZoFo]

Some say it’s sad, disconcerting even, but Russian blood is what makes the Ukrainian sunflowers grow so high so it’s not a complete loss.

[@nikitajukov4915]

@@ZootyZoFo wow another brainrot murderhobo, awesome.

[@lean_rblx]

​@@ZootyZoFo why are you so blood thirsty?

[@g.i.jovavich8564]

There is a gentleman on Reddit that started cataloging the videos quite some time ago. He had said he became interested as it certainly seemed abnormal to see these happen so frequently. On the topic of seeing inside the mind of russian soldiers, the kyiv independent released a piece recently with interviews of pows from kursk and some interviews were released in their entirety. The stories they tell are interesting to say the least.

[@reedschrichte800]

In some of the videos I've seen, the despair of the soldier is apparent from 1km away.

[@dimas3829]

kiev independant is ukrainian government's mouthpeace, my dude, and you should never ever trust what pows are forced to say on camera, regardless of who took them and what country they originate from.

[@reedschrichte800]

@@dimas3829 So, who do you believe?

[@dimas3829]

@@reedschrichte800 Ukrainian bloggers on Donbass (which is different from being on Russian) side like Podolyaka (NOT Podolyak) and Ostashko (the audience of later is quite cancerous, though, in a constant search for supposed Ukrainian spies among each other. He also advertises some shit on his telegram channel like fake humanitarian funds). Podolyaka is particularly cool since his slogan is "if you are full of hatred - you was already defeated", he is bashing constantly against Russian incompetence in upper echelons of military (and defending unlawfully persecuted in it) while deeply rejecting Kiev's regime and misery that CIA's coup had brought to his Homeland. His report are mainly done on basis of personal network of friends, comrades, relatives and such and he usually reports before Russian media get to know it (and as a result he has a few people among Russian patriots that deeply hate him and consider him an Ukrainian asset when he speaks about Russian retreats from the settlements that official channels still claim to be under Russian control) I also watch telegram channel "resident" that tell the insides from Ukrainian government, though I take them with a grain of salt. P.S.I was following oryx reports on Russina losses for some time before it was exposed that he calculates one tank's footage from several angles - as different tanks, making his statistics useless.

[@jerrysartain2539]

Thanks Preston,great service.

[@ivanbarnett4887]

They did that in Afganistan once they found out that POW 'S were being skinned alive!!

[@JosephH-m2f]

aww so they CAN feel bad for things? What a shame. Anyways, hope they keep offing themselves.

[@DeltaEchoGolf]

Especially if you were a pilot. Russian pilots would take a Krinkov with them when they went on missions in case they were shot down.

[@OsnoloVrach]

Woah.. where can i read more about this?

[@MrJikl]

These guys are mainly from Storm Z units. They have strict order not to surrender.

[@alexandrecordeiro4957]

ONE OF THE GUYS IN THE VIDEO WHO TRY TO KILL HIMSELF AND HIS COLLEAGUE, WAS A CONSCRIPTED SOLDIER.

[@tinkertailor7385]

@@alexandrecordeiro4957 He said "mainly" and the conscript didn't unalive himself. So he is essentially right because it is the Storm Z troops who are sent into battle and left isolated if they fail... and they are the ones videoed ending themselves.

[@dyr_glpsn4209]

Orders mean jackshit when contact with your unit is lost and your life is on the line. If they thought their captivity would be decent they wouldn't do this.

[@gregoryfilin8040]

​@@dyr_glpsn4209 And what about when they get returned?

[@dyr_glpsn4209]

@@gregoryfilin8040 1) no one knows in what circumstances an individual soldier surrendered. 2) even if they were to know and deem the surrender not acceptable the soldier is still more useful deployed again than in jail.

[@MarkBarrack]

Heart breaking stories. Hope this, and all needless conflicts would end.

[@danielallan8061]

It's worth noting that there have been a lot of Ukrainian soldiers ending their lives from PTSD or not wanting to surrender since 2014. Either when serving or after release.

[@epci6419]

Doesn’t fit the narrative

[@SosaBoii-t1c]

Yea because a Russian Gulag is actual hell. When Russian POWs return they look normal, when Ukrainian POWs return they look starved and beaten

[@marcusm808]

That's because the things the russians say Ukrainians do to prisoners is what russians actually do to prisoners. Every russian accusation is a confession.

[@iamfrombanglasdesh]

@@SosaBoii-t1c Gulags dont exist anymore

[@artyparty_av]

shhhhhhh

[@PHILLIPMITCHELL-o7t]

Really balanced reporting something that's not reported. Awesome video, well done 👍

[@kzlfaku]

Soldiers killing themselves I believe is pretty normal in any battlefields. I'm sure a great deal of Ukrainians also have done that. I have heard soldiers in Ukraine saying they rather blow themselves up than being taken prisoner. I do not think this is a purely Russian phenomenon.

[@PeterMuskrat6968]

Well, it’s not normal for nations that aren’t based off of Soviet “all lives are tools” doctrine. It’s usually a side effect of living in countries that are just bland and lifeless… which pretty much means most of East Eastern Europe.

[@taan1424]

Oh, yeah, as supposed to the American breathtaking landscape of Walmarts, Taco Bells, suburbs and decaying infrastructure.

[@tracboy80]

Because they know 7 times out of 10 the russians WILL torture and kill them in captivity. Thry will have witnessed survivors in swaps come back in a terrible state, so you can't blame them for not wanting to be taken alive.

[@xReLentLess213]

​@PeterMuskrat6968 Russia isn't the Soviet union no more, and their airports are much nicer than the world's "richest" country USA. That homeless problem isn't very pretty either, for a rich country ofc.

[@WarPigstheHun]

Way to be obvious Russian Bot.

[@MickyChowMein69]

Thats just sad af. Seriously. Their lives must just be so hopeless. All they need to do is surrender themselves. Just make up some stuff for when they get sent back. They can just say they were knocked insensate by artillery or a drone grenade and woke up in custody.

[@petronixoonable]

They can't surrender because UAF soldiers would kill them after they rise their hands above their heads. It's also documented

[@jloki9259]

This actually happened to Russian soldiers taken prisoner in WWII. Many were knocked unconscious by artillery or maimed and left on the battlefield to awaken in German military hospitals. On returning to Russia after the end of the war Stalin denounced them. He said "They failed their motherland. Instead of fighting to the death they surrendered". A large majority were given show trials, quickly found guilty and taken out and shot. Today's Russian soldiers remember this history and Putin's admiration of Stalin.

[@ODA-OPerator]

I think birds/drones are making it so stressful for soldiers that theyre getting shelled from mornings to sundown and then during the night they have to wonder about drones. I think thats whats making them do it instead of surrendering to ukaine they are scared of what would happen and blocking units behind them,so theyre options are minimal Edit:also the fact that they see others get mowed down and then the lack of munitions

[@PWALPOCO]

So basically a Russian soldier who is contemplating suicide is driven to do so, either because he is worried the same thing will happen to him as happened to the men that were in front of him (he wasn't able to go in and rescue them) or that he will be treated how the men are treating the Ukranian prisoners behind him if he gets captured. Very circular problem, and of Russia's own creation.

[@BiGDuke6Actual]

Thanks Preston - this only serves to amplify just how tragic this war actually is.. Ukrainian or Russian - that's somebody's kid. The list that Putin will eventually have to answer for will never be achieved in his life or the next but may help to keep him warm in hell

[@SeanHenrichs]

Russians don't have kids, they have little orcs

[@richardmushabe3101]

George Bush, tony Blair and other elements who wages wars against other countries never questioned about the lives of children who died in Iraq and Afghanistan. All leaders are murderers especially the so call superpowers or who still believes on weaponry solving issues .

[@eldragon4076]

You can't be really that uninformed?

[@ReimuHakurei-b6i]

Причем тут пыня ?

[@garidelchev9998]

West and NATO are to blame to for this disaster, but westerners are inosent like pigeon and stupid as coalas!

[@geradkavanagh8240]

With all the drones in use, I'm surprised no mention of Ukraine doing leaflet drops where there is large troop concentrations on how to surrender and describing how POW's will be treated. Given the low morale and how many are basically 'forced' into service. I would guess a lot of Russian 'soldiers' would jump at a chance to get out.

[@sixmilllpesoman4741]

I think he did one earlier on in the conflict or perhaps it was ryanmacbeth,

[@JohnPeacekeeper]

Shoutout to that one Russian soldier we saw drone footage of that actually surrendered, disarmed himself, evaded artillery FROM RUSSIANS, and managed to safely reach the Ukranian side. Knowing the propaganda machine from the Russians now, that was even braver than we thought

[@rahowa8833]

Not all is propaganda or fear to be tortured as POW, I believe most decide to go out quickly rather than having an FPV or drone op play with them like we see countless times in footage, specially from the ukrainian side

[@Ivy.Redmoon]

Rahowa? Based name!

[@GraveUypo]

that's probably part of their 15 minute training. "if you get hit, finish yourself off cuz we ain't paying your hospital bills"

[@johnbacon4997]

From public info there's no evidence of Russian Casevac or mede ac so that's a real possibility

[@popajedilive3631]

Hospital bills is so american of you. In russia unless its a private hospital you don't have any "hospital bills" in your consciousness

[@dfhdff]

@@popajedilive3631 the government still pays for your hospital bills even if its free for you, read a book do some critical thinking

[@popajedilive3631]

@@dfhdff Nope. If the medical procedure/service is covered by the mandatory almost free insurance you don't see ANYTHING about the price. You don't see any charges. Like I said, you don't have to remember "hospital bills" Even if the doctors are technically paid by the state. You have nothing to do with it

[@MichaelJohnson-mh7mp]

Very emotional, but thank you Preston for sharing this. I may side with Ukraine, but I don't want to see anyone manipulated and forced to take dire measures.

[@o_______opanasovych]

You basicly can see the difference between prisoners exchange when our guys lossing 15-50 kilo being in captivity, meanwhile russian can eat the hecking borsch (iconic Ukrainian you would say soup) and a state spent 10k (250-270 $) on food per one captured russian.

[@alexvorobiov7533]

Ukraine being too nice with russo prisoners, except russo treat Ukrainian pow like trash...

[@dimas3829]

yeah, because when Russia takes in thousands of prisoners Ukraine takes in a dozen.

[@ZootyZoFo]

Ukrainians are just a far better class of people than their invading enemy.

[@banana6837]

Please give me a source that stated a prisoner of war in Russia losing 50kg during their captivity during this war

[@alexvorobiov7533]

@@banana6837 easly googles. Ukrainian pow photos after their release, and russo, compare, read. Ukraine speaks about that openly. Much interviews on KZbin. Come on

[@Defense0001]

This is terrible. If it's because of the belief they will be tortured, that's tragic. If it's just their fighting spirit, that's still sad.

[@aaronduvall1075]

Preston at 2:57 you said Russians are using "to a degree" of meat wave attacks but from full videos I've seen that of Western media only shows snippets of the full videos of small Recon Teams not even Assault waves. Anything to qualify these Assaults as "Human wave attacks" it would fall under these catagories: 1. Unprotected/Exposed 2. Concentrated 3. Frontal Assault 4. Infantry company formations So far I've only Seen either a small Recon fire team with an armored vehicle supporting it from the back or even moving up with them at times and some videos of two Russian squads actually doing cross-bounding or Foward-Bounding to Assault a poorly defended Ukrainian positions. If they consider Small Recon Teams as "Human wave Assaults" then we should call every Kraken video or Azov Brigade videos conducting reconnaissance as a human wave attacks with that logic. What isn't being reported on purpose is the fact that both sides have incompetent leadership and some Ukrainian units haven't been rotated out of the front in over 6 months due to shitty leadership.

[@ReimuHakurei-b6i]

Куда ты пришел со своей логикой , у Престона заказ , а ты мешаешь логикой

[@aaronduvall1075]

@@ReimuHakurei-b6i you got an English translation?

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

Meat wave and human wave aren't the same. Human wave is Korean War era stuff. Meat wave are like "waves" in videogames, you clear stage 1 and then stage 2 comes later, and so on and on. You don't play the game to "win", the waves will keep coming, you just play to see how many waves you can last until you lose. If an enemy is feeding "recon teams" knowing that your defensive position will eventually run out of ammo or the soldiers will get fatigued from combat or even lack of sleep, that's a clear intent to wear down the defender.

[@tracboy80]

The russians are sending small units in frequently, these units get destroyed, they send in more. And so on and so on. Gradually it wear down Ukranian resistance and ammunition in places as its designed to do. So yes, meat waves as described by Ukranian soldiers themselves.

[@aaronduvall1075]

@@tracboy80 I've talked to multiple Ukrainians over there including relatives and they have a different Perspective that contradicts alot on the media. Overall they get half wrong and half right but Recon Teams isn't to assualt, so for them to just send another small pockets of squads to Slaughter it'll be nonsensical for a strategic gain especially when they also have Artillery observers attached that can give grids to compromised Ukrainian positions which happens as frequently than you'd realize.

[@nemorianderson]

Ukrainians treat their captured pow's maybe even a little too well. Of course they are held under a guard, but they get good food and in good amounts, they get medical treatment if needed, they live in a relative comfort, and also they get the ability to call their families and tell that they are alive (because russian authorities very often tell the families of the soldier that they know for a fact is pow that he is dead or missing). On the other side, Ukrainian pow's in russia are most cases touched both physically and mentally, drastically loose weight, in most cases do not get medical treatment or get very poor one, so it's not uncommon if they die from untreated wounds. They are often held in basements or in sheds, were cases that even in cages like animals. Also that's no secret that russians refuse to give back prisoners from several brigades they especially hate, like Azov or amphibious assault. And there were cases they executed those prisoners, which is of course a warcrime. You can watch any video from pow exchange between russians and Ukraine. Ukrainians came back very slender and with sick and tired look, but they are visibly happy to be back, cry when they see their families and sing songs together. Russians came back vell fed and healthy, but sad because a lot of them don't want to be back, because they know that they will be forced back as cannon fouler and will be treated worse than they were as POWs

[@ericmartin5720]

It’s called taking control of your life, or at least the end of it.

[@NoofGoof]

Great work on this one Preston. Thanks.

[@richardmushabe3101]

Preston thanks for the video . Actually even Americans so many committed suicide in iraq and even up to now the few who are still there its still happening.

[@Ealsante]

You call it a problem. I call it a positive step towards a much desired outcome.

[@StepDub]

It reduces the number of exchanges and requires little training.

[@jonm2416]

1:23 This metric is irrelevant. You'd need statistics of American suicides by wounded or stranded servicemen during combat.

[@michaelpettersson4919]

Why? There is no conflict to pull modern data from. And the US is legendary for NOT leaving their wounded behind.

[@jonm2416]

@@michaelpettersson4919 Why? Because that's how studies are done. With eqivilant data sets. And your second point just shows how likely it would be for Russian stats to be ridiculously worse. We're likely of the same opinion.

[@michaelpettersson4919]

@@jonm2416 If comparable data sets are unobtainable then we have to deal with that. The US military do not behave the way the Russian military do. The United States do not fight a hopeless war either. Yes, both Vietnam and Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts dragged on, but it was never as bad as it is for Russia right now. Russia is currently suffering around 1000 casualties a day. You need to go back to the world wars to find western powers to suffer losses comparable to that. But yes, American soldiers end up with PTSD as well and suicides are common, but they are very rare on the battlefield. It is the coping when return system that is failing there. I do not know how bad it is for Russian veterans, but I suppose that they have it way worse.

[@jonm2416]

@@michaelpettersson4919 I suspect that most of these recorded suicides of Russians are due to the lack of medical evacuation. While in horrific pain and knowing for a fact that no one is coming to help them, these soldiers come to the realization that they have only one option. And in the U.S. military, there are rarely similar occurrences. We likely both share these opinions. Regarding this video though, I'm just personally against attempting to come to valid conclusions by inserting and analyzing irrelevant data into an equation just because real data is lacking. I also get that he's just trying to make content.

[@VladimirPavlovskiy]

Well, it is hard to understand slavic warrior's psychology for a person from a different military mentality, especially a heavily biased one. If your military generated a strategy formulated as "the one who fights and runs away may luve to fight another day", our military sees it not as suicide, but as a sacrifice. It is hard to accept, but "being a warrior - living in eternity" is a popular concept. Any person educated in a western tradition fears personal death. Part of the psychological conditioning, as you know, but prefer to ignore, is giving a warrior some simple principles. So here you observe one of them. Boys are brougt up this way.

[@dmcwlk]

Always clear and concise. :)

[@justinderosa6915]

Your videos help me with my own shit brother. Appreciate you. Real talk.

[@markotisovic8233]

Ukranian treatment of Russian POWs is well documented. It depends on the unit it was especcially widespread in the begginig of the war. They were very proud of it. They later wanted to accuse russians for some of the cases.

[@Stakan79]

“Those are the rookie numbers , they need to pump those numbers up”

[@methylenedioxy818]

Thank you, Preston, for your recently increased coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War! I think this war is the most consequential one currently being fought worldwide. The fate of nascent democracies worldwide, like Ukraine, who are fighting for a brighter democratic, capitalist future, and against being dragged back into their authoritarian past hangs in the balance. Keep up the regular coverage!

[@BAJOLADU]

You have no vukking idea what the word democratic means. Swaziland is more democratic than Ukraine.😂😂😂🇷🇺

[@methylenedioxy818]

@BAJOLADU thank you for boosting engagement with this channel with your comments. It helps with the algorithm 🥳 By the way, Eswatini's (Swaziland's current name) Freedom House index is 17/100, and Ukraine's is 39/100, so your assertion is incorrect. For comparison, Russia's is 13/100, and the US' is 83/100, so it would be correct to say that Eswatini is more democratic than Russia 🤣

[@sidneyshaw9814]

Is this a joke?

[@methylenedioxy818]

@sidneyshaw9814 if that question was directed toward me, no, of course, my statements are no joke. Why do you ask?

[@sidneyshaw9814]

@@methylenedioxy818 the moment I read the sequence "Ukraine-democratic-capitalistic-bright-future" I was fairly certain you were a comedian. Ukraine is a hollowed out and alienated nation whose governing heads are oligarchs and foreign intelligence assets. Once this war is over, Ukraine will be bankrupt, crushed by a demographic crisis the likes we haven't seen since the 1940s, and then further crushed by debt harder than Saddam's Iraq was in the 90s. There will be no bright future for them, unfortunately-- unless they bore in that $1T worth of Lithium reserves, or if Blackrock invests hundreds of billions.

[@cornebod]

Compared to the USA's 4 times suicide rate to those who were KIA in the "war" in Afghanistan, this is negligible. The intensity of these two wars can't even be compared and yet the suicide rate isn't even 1% on the Russian side...

[@funwithmagnus8570]

A kid bed sheeting himself in the squad bay is way different than this.

[@gtaclevelandcity]

I read that as "skeeting" himself and that suddenly had a completely different meaning.

[@ZootyZoFo]

We had a guy try when I was in MCRD, tried to hang himself off some water pipes but the pipes broke, made a big mess 😂

[@funwithmagnus8570]

@@ZootyZoFo happens just about every cycle I've heard. Had two, both unsuccessful thankfully, when I was at SD MCRD. Btw kids, if you go to boot camp and it's not for you, there are better ways to get dropped. A temporary problem in your life is not worth such a permanent solution.

[@boboeggsmasher-p5j]

@@funwithmagnus8570 exactly

[@RoninTF2011]

With the russian: every accusation is a confession....

[@eldragon4076]

Nafo troll

[@RoninTF2011]

@@eldragon4076 No, truth

[@maxpopkov1432]

@@eldragon4076 Putin meat rider

[@cas54926]

03:10 has been confirmed to be a video of the training excerices that was presented as real combat footage.

[@joostdriesens3984]

I was suspicious of this clip with the 'neat' artillery smoke.

[@reedschrichte800]

OK, but does if affect the theme of this video?

[@Ilamarea]

I had a feeling it looked ridiculous for combat footage. Makes sense if it's training.

[@cas54926]

@reedschrichte800 absolutely not, and I am not trying to take away anything from the video, I'm just providing some context for the content used as samples.

[@reedschrichte800]

@@cas54926 Fair point. There's plenty of real combat footage available.

[@gurkagurkadurka6688]

I'm not normally one to encourage anyone jump on trends. But I really think the rest of the serfs should consider hopping aboard now, before the trend becomes passe.

[@robomonkey1018]

At least our guys don't get abandoned until they get their DD214.

[@jloki9259]

We'll said! From, Another vet.

[@phillipdavidhaskett7513]

@@jloki9259 "Another vet" who doesn't know how to punctuate English. Nice try, Boris.

[@jloki9259]

@@phillipdavidhaskett7513 Ok, Mr. Anal Retentive. I'm ex-US Army. Not ex-english grammar professor. Never been to Russia, so relax and stop being so paranoid about the Russo bots. They exist in comment sections of videos like this. Calm down and take a deep breath.

[@jloki9259]

@@phillipdavidhaskett7513 I'm ex-US Army not ex-english grammar professor. Russo bots do exist. We just have to deal with the technology. Try to take a deep breath and relax a bit. I promise it will help.

[@phillipdavidhaskett7513]

@@jloki9259 The dumbest white-trash, buck-tooth, daughter-f**king hillbilly in Amerika knows the difference between "well" (meaning good or "more better") and the contraction of "we will" (we'll, as in "we-uns is gonna mosey on down to the likker store after we's done watchin' the wheel of fortune"). Russians can't replicate how the under-class speaks Amerecan, no matter how much easier it would be to disrupt our politics.

[@Jelle1880]

The fact that many of them do it in a split second shows that this is what they are told to do imo.

[@urgaynknowit]

One side tortures prisoners, the other doesn’t. You decide who’s the bad guy

[@cudjoemann]

There's video evidence of both sides doing executions on surrendering soldiers only it's done way more on video from the Ukrainian side

[@dimas3829]

one side are angels, the other side are devils, you decide who's the bad guy.. not really you, but the one who indoctrinated you into thinking that one side is guilt-less.

[@methylenedioxy818]

@@dimas3829 💛💙🇺🇦💛💙

[@dimas3829]

@@methylenedioxy818 that's cute and shiet, but Ukraine is toasted as a state. The moment border guard started to shoot their own civilians that desperately tried to flee the country - that flag has lost any semblance of value.

[@methylenedioxy818]

@dimas3829 that story, like others you spin here, are complete BS comrade. Leave the dark side and join the heroes 🇺🇦💛💙🇺🇦

[@robbyrob4242]

Your channel deserves more likes

[@williamstearns7490]

The constant terror of the drones hunting them has got to erode their sanity. There are so many POV vids of Russians curled up with the angry hornet sound of Ukrainian drones flying zipping by. But then one suddenly stops. Slowly creeping back towards them. Searching. It saw something. The Russians trying to will it to go away. But it doesn’t. It dips below the tree line. Just hovering. Scanning. Hunting them. And you can hear, in the distance, another one speeding towards the position. Just watching these videos filled me with anxiety, tension, and dread, even though I wanted the drone operators to succeed. And apparently Russian soldiers deal with every day and all night. Combined with everything else, it’s no wonder it eventually leads to so many Russians just saying “I can’t take it. I’m done”.

[@Angrycovet]

When people are making fun of Russian soldiers killing themselves,it's genuinely infuriating.

[@du5707]

Why, why, why. Some cultures are simply like that. The Japanese and seppuku and kamikaze. The Afghan and Vietnamese. Some people are culturally simply hard to defeat in war.

[@taan1424]

Killing youself doesnt exactly make it harder to beat someone at war.

[@petronixoonable]

@@taan1424 not to be defeated but to accept their defeat. All these deaths are to show that these soldiers would die by their rules

[@aleksandrs1422]

Have you seen what they do to captured Russians? I know Preston made a video on the execution of Russians trying to surrender. For some reason, known cases of torture don't make the cut. Maybe he's uncomfortable, but the last half of the video is as true, if nit more true, if you replace Russia and Ukraine People don't want to be tortured because they know they'd break. Mothers and wives have received calls from Ukraine from the torturers. Video calls. Extorting money. If you're a husband, father or a son, you don't want your family to see you like this. Much less lose the livelihood

[@awnzotheman]

​@@taan1424it is when They go out trying to take you out at the same time. I mean, I'd rather fight an enemy that surrenders peacefully. Not someone who pulls a hidden grenade right when I get close up to try to apprehend him.

[@r_dva3301]

you can see that they use the same pattern, they use the same holding of weapons, it looks like they were specially trained for this

[@DefenderOfVirginity]

you can only shoot yourself with a rifle in a couple ways

[@clankclankimatank]

guns aren't typically designed for suicide. Not too many ways to "hold" one with that in mind.

[@r_dva3301]

@@clankclankimatank they take same pose, same sit, clearly can see they trained for it

[@jloki9259]

​@@r_dva3301With the little training time the Russian soldiers do receive I highly doubt that time was taken to "know how to use your rifle correctly when committing suicide"! The Russian mantra has always been, "Fight to the death. There is no surrender"! No army, even one as big a mess as Russia's trains soldiers to commit suicide. That's absolutely no way to win an engagement, battle or war My grandfather had a bunch of pictures from the battle of Iwo Jima in WWII. Most Japanese soldiers did not surrender. Some of the photos show the soldiers and officers sitting against a cave wall, dead, with a rifle in their mouth. These were long rifled so they triggered them with their toes. This was not "trained". There is basically only one way of shooting yourself in the head with a rifle the length of the Ak-74. It's intuitive, not learned from training.

[@bruhmanthetruthprovider2201]

@@r_dva3301 Are they supposed to insert the rifle in their Rectum? Where else are they supposed to put the muzzle lol

[@cabanford]

Sucks to be a poor Russian at the front.

[@PeterReeves-s6k]

Sucks to be a poor russian

[@arizonabusinessleague918]

I mean, if you're horribly wounded, I wouldn't count this as suicide. I would think that this would be more common than not throughout modern conflicts.

[@leifsoderman]

Thanks, sad to hear but its not first time I hear about it.

[@xenofontzaras1112]

Danke!

[@Ryo_Le_Gos]

Considering how sadistic many of these drone operators are, I am not suprised. Saw a video recently of a russian soldier getting his leg blown off, only to have something flammable dropped on him afterwards, with a following drop that blew his head in two.

[@SuperBubba01]

Don't watch if you can't handle it. Trust me.

[@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg]

It sounds karmic

[@adrian333dev]

Russian Bot Stamp!

[@adrian333dev]

Well they could have just surrendered!

[@iplaygames8090]

@@adrian333dev to whom? The drone flying at them at 200 km/h? Nearest Ukranian or Russian position from them is likely kilometers away.

[@solsolsolomon]

War is so utterly fucking depressing. I feel bad for everyone, the civilians and forced conscripts most of all

[@MrSirlulzalot]

Russkies know how they are so they know how Russkies treat prisoners. It is natural they would project that onto their enemy. They are famous abusers of captives and civilians during war. Has anybody here ever read of them having a reputation otherwise? ❤

[@bricktopperheadon5490]

💯

[@DamjanYuriev]

ofcourse you didnt read otherwise because you read only proukranian sources😂😂😂😂

[@christophermo13]

You are 100% wrong. But keep eating that shit from Ukrainian shovel they feed you with.

[@maxpopkov1432]

@@DamjanYurievdid you watch the full video? Or are you just trolling? 😂

[@islandwills2778]

There are documented cases of Ukrainians torturing Russian prisoners, gunning down surrendered soldiers, politicians suggesting to castrate every captured Russian prisoner so it's not like the Ukrainians are making it difficult for Russians to believe the propaganda

[@wellbeing6198]

Ukraine soldiers have clear purpose to defend their land while Russian soldiers come without a purpose and die all for one mans ego

[@EeEe-ze7tm]

Is conquering this land not a clear purpose to you?

[@oliveryt7168]

Purpose to defend Washington's interests... without even realising it. (There, I fixed it for you)

[@mathieusimoneau3358]

@@EeEe-ze7tm To the ones fighting its utter nonsense. They have relatives there. Half the population speak Russian. To most of them its a fratricide war and it make no sense.

[@guleiro]

Is Russia supposed to do nothing and see Ukraine joining a military alliance that was created to fight them?...

[@adrianhenle]

@@guleiro You mean, to defend against their aggression? Invading Ukraine and committing countless war crimes against the civilian population is *exactly* the kind of thing that would push them towards NATO. Drink less Kool-Aid.

[@maurochijani4269]

In two years of Russia-Ukraine war, did 116 Russians commit suicide? It is little compared to the thousands of American soldiers who committed suicide in the years of the Afghanistan-Iraq war

[@danilapolesciuk4316]

And 99.9% of those suicides are soldiers that killed themselves after being in the war and from PTSD not on the front unlike the Russian ones

[@offjofce]

I guess American soldiers don't count... they don't contribute to the glory of Ukraine! 🤡 👉👌

[@penitent2401]

From the first few posts early in video, it mentioned that they killed themselves after being injured by a drone. If they are on battlefield they don't get medical evacuation unless they have clear line established and can be pulled to the back. So they know they were not going to be evacuated in their situation.

[@mk061g9]

Great video

[@PrestonStewart]

Thanks!

[@GucciKraken]

Interesting. Thanks!

[@joelsullivan1248]

When they do it with a grenade they’re called a “splatnik”

[@ratagris21]

Da!

[@brittbarlow6111]

Yeah, there’s a whole Telegram channel dedicated to videos from drones of this happening!

[@CRTTvPlus]

They are not equipped with anything to manage the pain. While in shock they find it the best pain relive alternative. Besides, they also know that nobody will take care of them at home. I just wish they would do it at home, before coming to Ukraine.

[@paddington1670]

"Comrade, did you not buy tampons and zip ties? ack! your loss then!" /BOOM/

[@petronixoonable]

That's not true. Stormtrropers have their own medicine to relieve pain and to stop bleeding. The thing is that ukies kill soldiers after they surrender. Guess why there are so many UA POW's in Russia and so less russians in ukrainian captivity.

[@slavimihov4707]

I'm happy that people watching you are not biased like your videos. Selling Ukrainian military merchandise shows that you already took a side, so i can't blame you. What seems to me hypocritical is not the one-sided view you are pushing through, but the fact that you were in the military and you push a pro war view in your videos. Sadly Ukraine can't win, and the losses they suffered are actual human lives. Same goes for Russia, with the main difference that they never said we don't want to negotiate. You are just pushing this information, so the war can go on, and have more content, from which you can earn some money from. You disgust me.

[@disillusionedidealist3446]

Finally, someone has brought this tragic subject to the fore...thank you.

[@Pbav8tor]

Russia does not want the exchanged POWs of theirs to survive. And talk.

[@Mulchavelli]

Life as a Russian POW in a Ukrainian holding center is better than life as a Russian civilian

[@matexhdchannel4193]

Ukraine Bot

[@TyllerBoom]

An extremely stark difference, Americans saying you won't be left behind. To live no matter what, and to fight on even after surrender. We encourage our troops to not surrender, but we certainly don't shame those that do. I know of no Russian troops who've talked about captivity at all, let alone anything bad.

[@RinoJataas07]

Because War is hell. This thing are also happening to Ukrainans.

[@TyllerBoom]

@@RinoJataas07 I disagree, war is war and hell is hell. Good people can go to war, bad people go to hell.

[@RinoJataas07]

@@TyllerBoom No. In War there is no good or bad, only evil. Didn't you learn it in history books?? It's easy to disagree especially when you are drinking your coffee with AC without experience and acknowledgement on this Men dying in unreasonable War.

[@TyllerBoom]

@@RinoJataas07 I am both prior service and a student of history. Good and bad do exist, NAZI's, NKVD, and the people who control them are undeniably evil. You also don't know me, I work 12 hour days in 140 degree conditions. And again, I'm prior service with a service connected disability. Your calling me out for ignorance isn't winning you any favors.

[@rodzacjisook]

Why is Russia allowed a UN Security Council permanent seat. They should be kicked out off the UN

[@Ice-yp4wg]

Unfortunately, they're one of the founding seats of the UN along with china and even get their veto rights too so that's not happening anytime soon unless they decide to leave on their own accord UN is just league of nations all over again

[@user-tm8jt2py3d]

they must be seeing the videos, they must be making plans in case they get stuck in one of these situations. what a horrible existence.

[@automationglobal4977]

Well, this is good news for pro- Ukraine isn't it?

[@Stakan79]

@@automationglobal4977 if a loss in this Putin’s war leads to some sort of change in Russian society - it’s good for Russia too.

[@AngelTripleSix]

Exactly, notice west media likes to pick and choose what they report? But call it unbiased?

[@lean_rblx]

​@@Stakan79 its not the society its Putin protecting corrupt faces

[@DemoManButters]

Was wondering when i would see a video about this topic, very sad stuff

[@MrTdg2112]

Are there any rules that suggest a 3rd party ensure or track POWs? Like the Red Cross or something?

[@shawnr771]

According to searchable reporting Ukraine has welcomed independent inspectors into POW camps to show off the conditions of the prisoners.

[@jloki9259]

I've seen videos of Russian POWs being interviewed by the Red Cross. The Red Cross people made it a point to say that no guards were present during the interviews. Only outside a heavy door. I felt the Russian POWs were given a chance to speak the truth and they were actually surprised that they were being treated "well" and had anticipated "worse, much worse". On the other hand, Red Cross workers attempting to speak to Ukrainian POWs were denied several times at several different locations.

[@joecoupon8299]

Maybe a Syria backed Red Crescent can offer 3rd party assistance to Ukrainian POWs in Russian camps?

[@jloki9259]

@@joecoupon8299 I know that the Red Cross has tried and been denied on several occasions. I imagine Red Crescent has tried because that's what they do. If they haven't it's worth trying. These are the types of agencies that let the captors know that they're watching and noting how POW's are being treated. They, in this way, prevent war crimes from happening and any decent nation at war will work with both or at least one. If not... that's evidence right there that prisoners treatment is being hidden from the world.

[@jloki9259]

@@joecoupon8299 Maybe You Tube dropped my comment. I think the Red Crescent visiting POW 's in Russia as well as Ukraine is a good idea. I'd actually be surprised if they haven't because that's one of the big things that they do. I don't know if they'd have better luck seeing POW 's in Russia. When a country at war refuses organizations like these to see POW's in order to see that they are being treated in accordance with the Rules of Land Warfare it basically causes the rest of the world, who are watching, to become concerned. They may act (through sanctions and such) and besides losing respect for that country they will hold that country responsible after the war for any war crimes. These will be investigated due to instances involving lack of cooperation with organizations like Red Cross and Red Crescent.

[@kyledabearsfan]

Man, i feel bad for their families. Because they are unlikely to know amwith any expediency. 😢

[@mikefiatx19]

The US have not fought a real war for over 50 years, goat herders are not an opposing army. So comparing US tactics when fighting shepherds to the Russian tactics when fighting NATO trained forces isn't a fair comparison.