New footage from the frontline of Ukraine shows wounded and criminal soldiers sent to fight in Putin’s war despite being in immense pain – with some being handcuffed to prevent escape
Shocking new footage appears to show handcuffed Russian troops being driven to fight as Vladimir Putin’s ‘cannon fodder’ on the frontline of Ukraine.
The shackled men appear to have no way of escape from the war’s killing fields. One soldier says: “So here we are, super, going on a combat mission.” Another adds: “Going on a combat mission in ****ing handcuffs.” The footage is as yet unverified but there is a report from Telegram channel Exilenova that the suspected captive fighters are from military unit 90600 – the 15th Guards Motorised Brigade.
The channel states: “The entire team is handcuffed to each other so that if something happens they don’t change their minds…” The men are under guard. “This is their world.”
Another Ukrainian channel Tsaplienko stated: “The Russians send their infantry on an assault in handcuffs. “The video shows 10 occupiers from the 15th brigade…. chained to each other while on a combat mission.”
Another source has suggested the men may be handcuffed because they are refuseniks – or Russian conscientious objectors “being transported to be slaughtered carrying out combat missions” for the Kremlin dictator.
Separate footage shows how Putin is sending severely wounded soldiers back to the frontline. This comes as US president Donald Trump is seeking Putin’s agreement to stop the fighting in Ukraine.
Putin has indicated he is ready to engage with Trump, but a fully-fledged peace deal may be much harder to broker. Videos show how Putin is forcing fighters on crutches – and one with epilepsy – to put their lives on the line for the sake of his conflict with Ukraine.
The commentary on one frontline video says: “That’s how they went on a combat mission. That’s ****ed up, so ****ed up. Come on, men. Bro!
“I’ll walk you out, carry your bag. This is crazy. One has even got epilepsy.”
The voice said despairingly: “A man on crutches going on a ****ing combat mission. So ****ed up” The cruelty is clear with another commentary saying of the disabled, war-wounded fighters: “That’s it, they’ve lined them up…..now they’re giving them machine guns, armour..
“There’s a medic walking around, he doesn’t give a ****!” One of those sending crocked fighters to die for Putin is identified as Battalion 1660 known as Prikamye or military unit 69448, part of the 20th Guards Combined Arms Army.
A Russian soldier admitted: “The mental hospital pronounced me category ‘B’, meaning I can’t handle firearms. Now they are hanging a weapon on me and sending me to the front. No problem, that’s how they do it! The 20th Army, awesome.”
One fighter said he was being forced back to fight despite being signed off as “unfit” by a medical commission.
Wounded Yuri Vorobyov, 47, with a gunshot wound on his leg, said: “They couldn’t get the shrapnel out, it was too deep. Since then, I have only been moving around on crutches.
“My leg still hurts, it doesn’t work. They don’t give me injections, painkillers don’t help anymore.”
“My contract expired, the military medical commission found me temporarily unfit for military service. And I was entitled to leave, but they did not let me go.”
The videos are revealed after a new report said that Putin has sent more than 90,000 soldiers to their deaths in the 35-month war. Journalists from the BBC and independent investigative outlet Mediazona established the names of 90,019 Russian soldiers who died during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The final figure may be significantly higher, but this number is based on open records inside Russia. Sprawling war graves are now a feature of every Russian region across the world’s largest country’s 11 time zones.
A memorial cemetery to fighters from Putin-backing private army Wagner opened recently in Siberian city Irkutsk. The dead include many soldiers as young as 18 – even though Putin has criticised Ukraine for allegedly considering lowering the age of recruits to defend their country from his invasion.
The total does not include those wounded and maimed in battle, which some estimates have put at half a million.
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