October 6, 2022
A group of Russian soldiers escaped from the military unit of the Cossack detachment Don, located in annexed Kherson, and are currently wanted in Russia. Photographs of wanted posters were published on Telegram channels and social media, including on the Telegram of Ukrainian parliament member Oleksiy Honcharenko.
According to the posters, 13 men escaped from the unit. They took weapons and ammunition with them, and stole two vehicles from the Russian Ministry of Defense.
It appears that at least three of the escapees lived in Moscow before participating in the war.
The posters warn the public to “Exercise extreme caution while identifying or detaining individuals, they are armed with automatic weapons, pistols, under-barrel grenade launchers with ammunition, and hand-held grenades. They are extremely dangerous, they have combat and operational experience, they are suspected of a series of major and grievous offenses on the territory of Kherson.”
According to the latest information, the soldiers have traveled from Kherson to Crimea. They entered the peninsula in four cars. At the moment their whereabouts are unknown.
Pavel Chikov, head of the human rights group Agora, commented on the situation: “As expected, convicts who were sent to war armed themselves, formed a gang, and hit the road. With automatic weapons and grenade launchers belonging to the Russian Ministry of Defense.”
https://meduza.io/en/news/2022/10/06/a-group-of-armed-russian-soldiers-fled-from-kherson-to-ukraine
“As expected, convicts who were sent to war armed themselves, formed a gang, and hit the road. With automatic weapons and grenade launchers belonging to the Russian Ministry of Defense.”
Yes, folks, that was not the smartest thing to do. But, what smart things have the ruskies done since Feb. 24th? And, how many others we don’t know about have done the same thing? How many will be doing this in the future? Certainly, the officers high-tailing out of the danger zones was also not a smart move by this ragtag army. This probably gave these criminals the impetus to follow suit.
On a side note, the title of this article was not chosen well.
This is all on the Nazi Prigozhin
But that Nazi won’t have to pay the price. Others will fly out of windows instead.
Recruiting patriotic convicts, what could possibly go wrong?
I’d say they don’t have a lot of operational experience, other than the criminal activities that got them sent to the big GULAG. Against the sheep, that’s enough to make them quite dangerous.