Many soldiers have been refusing to fight for days, while others are “shooting themselves in the legs to go home.” Many instead choose the more difficult path, that of stand next to the Ukrainians. This is the report coming from the Ukrainian secret service: information therefore from Kyiv, in a war that is also one of the information, often difficult to confirm. Certainly, the signs of the morale of the Russian army are clear. According to the secret service, many soldiers are switching sides and siding with the Kiev militias because they are angry with their officers, who “threw them in the meat grinder PutinAnd because they realize they’re out of supplies. Many are “satisfied” with cash offers to leave the Russian army and go with Ukraine.
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National Guard soldiers, known as Putin’s private army, refused to intervene, according to a human rights lawyer Ukraine. “A dozen soldiers claimed their employment contracts only cover Russian territory and that there was no legal basis for their deployment in Ukraine,” said Pavel Chikov, president of Agora, a Russiabased human rights organization. The soldiers concerned are all from Krasnodar, in southern Russia, and had been stationed in Crimea for exercises since February 6. They were fired but filed a lawsuit for unfair dismissal and are now represented by a lawyer in Krasnodar.
The army in Sumy
But there are also those who say “no”. Sumy, where another desertion of Russian troops has been recorded in recent days. In the city east of Kyiv, where fighting began since the beginning of the war, about 300 soldiers who decided to end the invasion are returning with their 70 units of equipment. “This is the second case of the organized refusal of the Russian army to take part in the genocide in Ukraine during the war writes the UNIAN news agency, citing the head of the Sumy regional military administration Dmytro. Zhyvytskyi . During a conversation with one of the commanders, it became known that neither he nor his fighters have any desire to fight in Ukraine”.
The conditions of the Russian army in Ukraine are sometimes dramatic. The military was sent on the “special mission” without knowing the true targets of the attack. They are not organized with supplies and have shortages of fuel, ammo and food. The latter fact compels them to loot markets and homes of Ukrainian civilians. Sumy district is among the hardest hit by Russian troops because it represents a corridor leading to Kyiv. However, it is currently still under the control of Ukraine.