“We were ordered to die silently”: Russian occupiers furious over new rules in the war in Ukraine

25.07.2024 – Translated from Ukrainian via Google and OFP

The Russian army suffers heavy losses in the war in Ukraine. Source: ArmyInform

While Russian propaganda broadcasts to the entire world that “the Russian army is invincible”, its soldiers say the opposite. 
Evidence of the huge losses of the occupiers on the territory of Ukraine and the lawlessness of the command flooded social networks. The State Duma added fuel to the fire, deputies of which decided to take away gadgets from the fighting “liberators”, which the latter perceived as an order to die silently.

Read more about this in the OBOZ.UA article.

The regime has shut its mouth

The ban on using gadgets during service in the “SVO” zone was perceived as a real “betrayal” by the Russian occupation forces. In this way, the Putin regime decided to shut the mouths of the “liberators” who talk too much about the real situation at the front.

In accordance with the adopted amendments to the law, the use of smartphones and tablets by occupiers will now be considered a gross disciplinary offense, punishable by 10 days of arrest.

We are talking about a violation of the ban on having on one’s person while performing military service duties “electronic products, devices and technical means in which audio, photo, video materials and geolocation data may be stored or which allow the distribution or provision of audio, photo, video materials and geolocation data using the Internet,” the law states.

"We were ordered to die silently": Russian occupiers furious over innovations in the war in Ukraine
Russian occupiers were forbidden to use gadgets at the front. Source: “Argument”

Even at the stage of introducing amendments to the law, Z-publics exploded with angry comments, in which they told the “deputies who were divorced from reality” that the consequences of their decision would be deadly for the Russian army, since modern warfare without gadgets is impossible.

“Do the people who prepared these amendments understand how modern military operations take place? Where are the maps, what controls the drones, how surveillance is carried out, and all that other stuff?” wrote Russian “war correspondent” Yaremchuk.

“If we remove all gadgets from the front for a week today, we will have no eyes, that is, no reconnaissance, we will have no visual control that commanders require to open fire, as well as that needed for adjustments, we will have no maps or navigation,” said another Z-“war correspondent” Alekhine.

The adopted amendments to the law, as the Russians admit, will also hit their own artillery. “I won’t reveal a secret by saying that today 100% of our artillery fires using programs written specifically for smartphones and tablets,” wrote Russian military analyst Shurygin.

In addition, the work of UAV operators, snipers, and reconnaissance personnel of the occupation forces, who cannot do without gadgets, will be paralyzed. Not to mention that all military actions in the ROV are coordinated in messengers, since “normal communication has not been established in two and a half years.”

“The radio communication is in a mess. The communication is sh*t. It’s no wonder that the relevant officials were arrested this year,” the occupiers said.

The decision also threatens to bring down the entire “SVO” management system at the grassroots level. “It goes through messengers, I think I haven’t revealed a military secret?” – Russian “war correspondent” Steshin is angry.

Every other Russian occupier writes that they have now been effectively “ordered to die silently.” And they really do have something to tell.

Lawlessness of commanders and humiliation after injuries

Russian occupiers are constantly recording videos at the front, where they talk about the crimes of the command. This is what the mobilized and contract soldiers of the 1st motorized rifle regiment of military unit 31135 did.

The Russians said that they have been at war in Ukraine since January 2023 without rotation or leave. They are not given uniforms or electronic warfare equipment in the “second army in the world”, there is a problem with medical care, as well as the required payments – including for combat.

"We were ordered to die silently": Russian occupiers furious over innovations in the war in Ukraine
Those who refused were locked up in the dugout

After reporting to the command about the current situation, Colonel Averyanov told the “rebels” that they were not entitled to any vacations, payments, or medical care, and that no one was interested in the soldiers’ opinions.

And after he said: “Your task is to pave the way with your body for those behind you,” the soldiers refused to go on a suicidal meat assault.

After that, they were taken to another settlement in the Luhansk region, where they were all thrown into a dugout and locked in under guard. Later, other refuseniks were “placed” with them.

Meanwhile, the heavy losses of the Russian occupation forces have already led to the fact that wounded “liberators” are being sent back to the front lines instead of being treated.

Russian Ivan Kovriga from Nakhodka recorded a video in which he said that in January 2024 he was seriously wounded, due to which he lost his central vision. Despite the urgent need for medical care, the occupier was sent to the front again. After that, in June, he was wounded again.

"We were ordered to die silently": Russian occupiers furious over innovations in the war in Ukraine
Occupant Ivan Kovryga. Source: screenshot from the video

However, even after the second wound, the hospital refused to treat the “liberator” (perform surgery).

A video recorded by another Russian occupier, this time in the Ukrainian city of Volchansk, also made a lot of noise. The soldier said that he and his fellow soldiers wear balaclavas to at least slightly muffle the unbearable smell, and that flies, which flock to abandoned bodies in incredible numbers, constantly surround the living.

The occupiers’ losses, according to him, are very serious. ” Out of three hundred, I am the only one left. Thirty more people have arrived, and there are now ten of us left,” the Russian said.

The occupier is in the Vovchansk district. Source: screenshot from the video

And this situation is everywhere. Now, for publishing a video, the command of the occupiers can arrest “too smart” people without trial or investigation. Which, of course, has already happened, but now “basements” and “pits” are effectively legalized. Time will tell how much all this will affect the desire of some Russians to sign a contract and go to a criminal war, but no one doubts that the amendments to the law adopted by Russian deputies have become another nail in the coffin of the Russian army.

One comment

  1. So, the meat puppets can’t even call their loved ones anymore, which is their last connection to home … a home they most likely will never see again. The meat puppets should not tell the truth to their families about the crimes their own are committing to them and to the Ukrainian. They are drugged up and filled up with alcohol, so they willingly and silently go and die for the little fart in muscovy.

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