Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine are heard admitting to eating dog meat and raping young girls in chilling overhearsed tones.
In wiretapped phone calls released yesterday by Kiev’s secret service SBU, Russian soldiers reveal their sick sexual “conquests” and complain about the quality of years of food rations.
An unknown man, probably a family member, asks in Russian: “Are you at least all right?”
Cats and dogs across Ukraine have been driven away, abandoned and wounded. This injured pet, taken in by the ADA animal shelter in southeastern Poland, has a serious scratch
A soldier replies: “We had alabay (dog) yesterday.”
“Who?” asks the family member.
“Alabay,” he replies soberly.
The stunned man says, “Do you eat dogs or what?”
Again the soldier replies stoically: “We have. We wanted some meat.
“We’re fed up [ration packs]’.
The soldier goes on to describe the rape of a 16-year-old girl by “our boys.”
An elderly woman who may be his mother asks, “Who was that?” to which the soldier says “three tankers” in his unit.
It is not clear where the Russian fighter is in Ukraine and when exactly the phone call took place.
the RecordingsLasting just over a minute, the SBU tweeted this morning to more than 400,000 followers.
A flurry of outraged replies followed, with Ukrainians pointing out that dogs might one day take revenge by chewing on the corpses of Russian soldiers.
A tweeter replied, “It’s just the bottom of the floor… Satan nervously smokes next to them.”
Another raged: “Fuck! They will rot in hell.”
But in a twisted irony, dogs have also been spotted chewing on the bodies of Russian soldiers, according to graphic tweets posted in recent days.
Kiev security service SBU tweeted the horrific clip yesterday, sparking angry replies
Ukrainian Armed Forces and charities from around the world have been working to save endangered pets
A woman holds her dog as she flees Irpin near Kyiv. Despite Russian peace vows, the war rages on
In Mariupol, where this man and his dog walk past a block of flats, there is fierce fighting
Efforts to rescue endangered pets from the war-torn country have been helped by British Army veteran Tom, 34, who has rescued nearly 700 cats and days since the invasion of Ukraine began on February 24.
The Yorkshire man, who kept his last name secret for security reasons, likened his efforts to a kind of “military operation” he witnessed in combat.
Tom said: “It’s not just animal shelters that need our help, you have rescues, you have breeders, you have people who have taken in stray and abandoned animals, there has to be at least 1,000 places that have 30+ dogs.
“There are thousands of them.”
Allegations of war crimes by Russian soldiers have been rife since the war began last month.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken last week formally accused Putin of war crimes, based on “public and intelligence sources.”
Earlier this month, Joe Biden branded the Russian president a “war criminal.”
A petition to try Putin in a Nuremberg trial at the International Criminal Court has nearly 1.5 million signatures from around the world.
Notable war crimes allegations include the bombing of the Mariupol Drama Theater, where hundreds of refugees took shelter.
Residential areas in cities across Ukraine have also come under continuous and indiscriminate artillery shelling over the past five weeks.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said this month: “Russian forces have committed and continue to commit numerous war crimes against civilians and crimes against humanity.
“All these and other crimes are thoroughly documented and lay the groundwork for further investigations by the international and Ukrainian judiciary.”