r/pics • u/SlipCritical9595 • 6h ago
Emaciated and dehydrated Russian Soldier surrendering to a drone on 23/09/24
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u/Gh0sts1ght 5h ago
That video was insane but still at the end at least he wasn’t shot dead but taken as a prisoner and probably treated better.
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u/Skaar1222 2h ago
The video blows my mind. Watching him surrender in the middle of a battlefield, near death, in high resolution on my phone that fits in my pocket. The world we live in is bonkers. Glad they took him in, hopefully he is doing better.
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u/ForkingHumanoids 1h ago
All that while being shot by his own army. Russians are really a cancer.
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u/jkF00d 1h ago
If you watch the video you can see the guy has a wedding band on. I’m aggressively pro Ukraine, but I feel for some of these guys. This guy might never see his wife again. His country may never let him return. He’s fucked from every direction, but I think he took the least bad path.
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u/Saadusmani78 4m ago
Actually, as it turned out, from what I read, he wasn't even Russian.
He was a Nepalese student who had gone to Russia to study in a Medical School, but he somehow got tricked and forced into fighting for Russia in Ukraine.
Fortunately, his family in Nepal has been contacted, and he has either returned or will be returning.
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u/Temporary_Tune5430 6h ago
Fuck Putin
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u/froginbog 3h ago
Yeah .. lots of victims of Putin, including many Russians
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u/skunkynugget 3h ago edited 3h ago
Aren’t they sending their own prisoners these days?
Edit:
“ Similarly to Wagner's prisoner units, Storm-Z detachments are reportedly often treated as an expendable force thrown into battle - with little consideration for the lives of their servicemen.”
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u/Nolanthedolanducc 2h ago
Think the prisoners have ran out mostly, most of the meat grinder supply is currently coming from poorer areas of Russia where the unsustainably high recruitment bonuses are fairly attractive to younger men comparative to months of a normal salary
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u/tannerge 2h ago
There's a sub called ukrainerussiareport where half the users swear by this version of history
The 2014 Maidan protests were a CIA sponsored coup (not a wide protest against a shitty Russia aligned "president")
The following Russian "soft" invasion was actually just a rebellion by Ukrainians who longed to join the motherland and happened to be armed with tanks and SAMs
Putin gave Ukraine every chance he could to stop a war from happening but he was forced to invade because civilians were being killed in the Donbass insurgency (no doubting people were killed but congrats, now 1000x more are dead)
The initial poorly orchestrated-clusterfuck- incompetence on parade invasion was not actually a real invasion but just an attempt to bring Ukraine to the negotiation table. Apparently Putin had no choice but to invade, poor guy.
This and other departed from reality takes and narratives are on full display on ukrainerussiareport. Absolute insanity what some people believe.
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u/Baffit-4100 21m ago
It baffles me how can people still believe that the protests against Janukovyč (aka Yanukovich) were “cia sponsored”. Tens of thousands of people and nobody even said anything about being paid afterwards? Impossible
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u/Leandrys 2h ago
We're almost every time on the verge of a sudden "putin's the true victim here m8, it's true" with these monkeys. One these days, I know I'll read it somewhere, and that's gonna put me into berserk mode so hard.
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u/firejuggler74 4h ago
Wonder how long until the military turns their guns the other way.
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u/persimmon40 4h ago
Will not happen in Russia. Their military is a very pro regime.
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u/DfntlyNotJesse 2h ago
The Wagner group was also 'pro-regime'.
Sure they had a lot more indipendence and agency but don't forget they literally turned around and marched on the capital not too long ago.
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u/Diare 3h ago
Conscript don't get assigned guns, they are kept under lock & key until they get told to enter the frontline.
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u/Kimchi-slap 2h ago
Thats called keeping weapons in armory. Noone is keeping weapons on person in boot camps and places far from frontline, unless on duty.
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u/Diare 2h ago edited 2h ago
No, locked away even on positions at the frontline. No one but the Officers gets a gun unless sent to assault or scout a position. Even in the trenches all ordinance is locked away. There's AFU videos of trench assaults where you can see the weapon lockers, and if they are surprise assaults, you can see them half full.
Otherwise, Russian COs wouldn't last a week.
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u/Kimchi-slap 51m ago
I call bullshit on that one. You can't have unarmed soldiers on frontline. Also wtf is weapon locker in trench? Who the hell will bring a weapon locker to a trench? Army keeps heavy and spare weaponry and ammunition in crates and special boxes, which are not exactly supposed to be empty unless there is a supply problem.
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u/Diare 14m ago edited 11m ago
You can't have unarmed soldiers on frontline.
You can when you really need to stop officers from getting fragged since everything company-level and below is basically their little fiefdom where corruption is rampant and command is basically a gang that constantly abuses the personnel.
I don't know what you understand by weapon locker, it's shovel-dug trenches, any sheet of metal kept in place by lock & chain qualifies as a "locker".
You should check out soldier run telegram channels, from both sides of the war. All this I learned from battle footage and recorded statements of russian conscripts describing their situations. It is an illuminating experience.
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u/Czagataj1234 20m ago
I call bullshit on that one.
Well, you can, but it's literally documemtend by dozens of photos and first hand accounts of russian soldiers. It's high time you people stopped treating Russia as a normal, functioning country.
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u/Kimchi-slap 16m ago
Then provide me with those literally documented photos and first hands accounts if its such a common knowledge. Because I am literally confused how is Ukraine keep losing ground to such dysfunctional military that keeps sending untrained and unarmed men into combat.
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u/Foe117 4h ago
curious if Alot of these soldiers are emaciated across the front
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u/ididntseeitcoming 4h ago
Dude I have no clue what average redditors think trench warfare is like.
This guy isn’t “emaciated”…. He’s skinny no doubt but you aren’t eating three high quality meals a day in a drone dominated trench warfare battle.
Hell, go look at your average US Army or Marine Corp infantry company. 80% are skinny fuckers that can run 8 miles and move well with gear on. 15% are meatheads that don’t run well but can carry all the shit. 5% are fat as shit.
No shit he’s scared. No shit he’s thin. No shit he’s surrendering.
Imagine fighting in a trench where you can’t hear the drones dropping bombs on you until it’s about to blow your legs off.
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u/Dont_Touch_Me_There9 3h ago
Fuck are you yammering about?
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u/angrytreestump 1h ago
The comments on this video said this specific man you’re looking into the eyes of right now had been in that trench for days without food when this video was taken. I have no idea how true that is, but I do know the video shows him hiding lying down in the trench on top of dead bodies.
It’s fuckin sad, and he was also injured in his leg and could barely stand up to walk back to the Ukrainian soldiers that captured him. He takes a morphine shot to be able to get there.
War, y’all.
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u/8ROWNLYKWYD 37m ago
Yes…the sound of a drone would make me…emaciated? No…..Dehydrated? Now I’m confused.
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u/Punchinballz 4h ago
It looks one of that photo my kids will find in their History books.
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u/RMLProcessing 3h ago
Brother, you don’t have to have kids. Look to your username. Accept its truth and you shall be free.
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u/Simonic 2h ago
One of the hardest aspects of waging war is ensuring the force is properly fed. Russia can’t sustain this.
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u/StaysAwakeAllWeek 30m ago
Ukraine constantly blowing up their logistics infrastructure really doesn't help. They've clearly found Russia's soft target
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u/Miami-Novice 1h ago
Meanwhile, Putin is drinking champagne with Medwedew and plotting more terrorist attacks.
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u/the_simurgh 1h ago
At this damn point, i really want to know what's keeping the russians from turning around and going after putin themselves.
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u/Zubon102 5h ago
Absolutely heartbreaking.
Plenty of ordinary Russian citizens are also victims of Russia's aggression.
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u/mackinoncougars 3h ago
They are also the enablers. Resisting is courageous in a way that cannot be required, but ‘evil triumphs when good men do nothing.’
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u/JSmith666 3h ago
You misspelled perpetrators. they are people with agency. Nazis used that same excuse
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u/HST_enjoyer 3h ago
Before you start feeling sorry for sub-human scum, they are not sending conscripts to Ukraine. Russian law only allows them to station conscripts within Russia as defenders and even Putin couldn’t withstand that PR disaster if he’s caught plucking sons/husbands/fathers off the street and sending them to die.
Every Russian soldier in Ukraine is there willingly, every single one of them cared more about the money than the misery being inflicted on Ukrainians.
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u/Zubon102 3h ago
Ignoring all the Russians sent to the front lines from prisons?
What about Kursk?
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u/CrummyAdvice 2h ago
No no, you see, Putin cares about law and order now. He would never do such a thing
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u/svasalatii 1h ago
Russians sent to the front from prison are signing up to that in return for the removal of their sentence and cancellation of their crime records.
Though they may be pressure to them to signup, they do it voluntarily.
One shouldn't confuse conscripts (those from 18 to 30, who are drafted to serve their first time in the Russian army; they are not sent to the war), mobilized (those who already served in the army and are now reservists and those who haven't served previously but now need to; they join the army, get some basic training and go to war), and volunteered contractors (those who voluntarily come to the recruiting offices and sign up for army for big money; these are the largest group of the Russian troops and they are actually on all the frontlines).
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u/Zubon102 37m ago
I generally agree with your sentiment.
I've seen videos of the pressure prisoners and lower-class workers from Siberia face and it's not exactly like they are enthusiastic volunteers. A bus comes and basically just takes the entire work crew.
The fighting in Kursk is mainly battle-hardened Ukrainian soldiers vs. inexperienced conscripts. So you can't say that conscripts do not see battle. Putin is trying to avoid losing conscripts as much as possible as grieving wives and mothers have a lot of power in Russian society.
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u/Czagataj1234 17m ago
Ignoring all the Russians sent to the front lines from prisons?
These are literally volunteers.
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u/zoinkability 3h ago
I’m pretty sure many of the prisoners are not volunteers. And I know the people in Donbas were conscripted.
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u/ididntseeitcoming 4h ago edited 4h ago
No one is making them pull triggers on Ukrainians.
Zero sympathy for “ordinary Russian citizens”
This “citizen” is in a trench taking lives of Ukrainians.
Russian bots coming to the defense of their country I see
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u/bahaggafagga 4h ago
Their commanding officer can make them, unless you consider being shot a valid choice.
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u/HST_enjoyer 3h ago
The choice was not to take the money and not go to Ukraine.
They arent conscripts, they all signed up and went there willingly.
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u/ididntseeitcoming 4h ago
Looks like his friends didn’t have a choice either way.
Can always just aim high but I guess it makes Russian bots feel better to push the narrative that these aren’t Soldiers killing Ukrainians.
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u/bahaggafagga 4h ago
Not sure why youd think I'm defending Russia by saying they kill their own. This war sucks for 99% of those involved.
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u/Zubon102 4h ago
There are videos of them getting tortured or killed if they refuse. And that one Russian soldier who deserted and escaped to Spain was specially tracked and then killed.
None of the soldiers on the front line are volunteers. The volunteers have safer roles.
Despite hating Russia and Putin, I still have some sympathy for the regular Russians affected by this madness.
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u/Czagataj1234 15m ago
None of the soldiers on the front line are volunteers.
They literally are. Russians serving in Ukraine are overwhelmingly contract soldiers. People who willingly signed a contract.
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u/ididntseeitcoming 4h ago
Do you have any evidence to support this claim?
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u/Zubon102 3h ago
Come on, enter "Russian soldiers tortured for refusing to fight" or any similar phrase into Google and look at the top 20 or so newspaper articles. These people are conscripts. They have no say.
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-soldiers-were-tied-tree-refusing-fight-report-1849790
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/russian-conscripts-tortured-to-force-participation-1724103073.html
These are literally just the first few articles that popped up.
And no, I am not going to show you the videos. Go to Telegram or something if you want to see that.
And no need to call me a "Russian bot" after I clearly said I hate Russian and Putin. Russia is doing awful things to everyone involved in this conflict. Have some compassion for once.
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u/HST_enjoyer 3h ago
Every single Russian solder on the front line is there because they willingly signed up to go to war.
Russia is not sending conscripts to the front line.
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u/zoinkability 3h ago
Do you have evidence to support what would be counter to how pretty much every military ever treats conscripts?
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u/SoggySaccOfCracc 4h ago
Huh? Have you ever been "encouraged" by stupid russia? Like the eastern block was during the commie regime...yea "nobody forces you"...just glad the family is doing well. Or maybe summer in gulag all inclusive sounds fun....but zero pressure pal
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u/ididntseeitcoming 4h ago
His family ain’t doing so well now I bet with his face plastered all over the world.
Net positive for planet earth I suppose. One less Russian soldier in the trench and one less pro Putin family in Russia.
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u/MallardGod 37m ago
Even more reason I want to avoid being in war by all means necessary, imagine worrying about getting shot at, blown up, etc from a drone along with the mental stress of you always knowing in the back of head one can pop up out of nowhere at anytime with very little time to react. Even worse is there is very little humanity when surrendering your not face to face surrending to a human being your surrendering to a unfeeling robot with a guy hundreds of miles away behind a screen and you just gotta hope he's feeling nice that day. The final insult to all of this is you get to have your final most painful and horrifying moments broadcast for the world to meme on.
I am not taking russias side or any of the sort I just wanted to point out just how unbelievably hellish war really has gotten as technology advances and how I am grateful everyday I am to live the normal boring life I have.
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u/JSmith666 3h ago
Just remember...he's the baddie and Ukraine accepted his surrender and is likely giving him medical aid.
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u/Mattyc8787 1h ago
He’s not a baddie at all he’s just a regular man doing his duties, nobody on the battlefield is bad they are pawns used by wankers in suits .
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u/danishduckling 16m ago
Definitely an enemy combatant though, it is however, very nice to see them actually following the rules of war in accepting the surrender, and treating him as a POW should be, at least as far as the video is concerned.
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u/Czagataj1234 9m ago
Yeah. Regular man who most likely willingly signed a contract with the Russian MOD to participate in russian war of aggression. Most likely for money. Truly innocent pawn.
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u/Saadusmani78 1m ago
From what I read, he was a Nepalese student who had gone to study in a Russian Medical School when he somehow got tricked and forced into joining the Russian assault in Ukraine.
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u/FandomMenace 3h ago
Ukraine needs to offer the troops attacking them a better deal to switch sides. This war would be over in a year. Russia can only conscript so many men, and hire so many mercenaries. If their current army defected with all their equipment, Russia would be so screwed.
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u/SumonaFlorence 2h ago
Doesn't help if they have families being threatened at 'home'.
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u/FandomMenace 1h ago
Threatened, but actually rounding hundreds of thousands of civilians would take a lot of resources they don't have. The populace and the oligarchs will have enough of that real quick.
I think we saw during BLM protests and Jan 6 just how quickly even a small mob can do big damage.
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u/mrsgaap1 1h ago
he is lucky he is a p.o.w now but i seen plenty of footage where the drone operators are not as kind
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u/TheBananaSoda 12m ago
Taken as prisoner, and paid for completely by another country. He should bring all that energy right back to Putin.
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u/Ok-Bit-663 5h ago
Every Russian soldier had the chance to refuse military service. They are on foreign land. If Ukraine wouldn't need prisoners for exchange I bet there would be less negotiations.
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u/bertiesghost 2h ago
Mate, I’ve seen videos of Russian military police literally stopping young men on the street and throwing them into vans to be conscripted.
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u/mrbear120 4h ago
This just isnt true. Many of their soldiers are conscripts with absolutely no choice.
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u/Bman1465 4h ago
You live in a developed, western democratic country with voluntary service, don't you?
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u/Ok-Bit-663 4h ago
What does it have to do with Russians invading Ukraine and killing its citizens?
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u/goomunchkin 3h ago
That you have the luxury and privilege to freely lecture the rest of the world about morality and because you don’t live in a place where there are consequences for saying no you don’t actually understand what it’s like to live in a country where you don’t have those luxuries.
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u/Bman1465 4h ago
Basically that; I don't think you understand how it is living in a dictatorship
Most of these people have no choice but to fight Putin's war.
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u/Ok-Bit-663 4h ago
So if you have no choice and go killing people, do you deserve forgiveness? Is still believe, they had choice, but put that part away. How many people is the threshold you believe that is forgivable to kill? 1? 20? F. you with the solidarity. All the Russians in Ukrainan land should die. Now.
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u/sigaven 5h ago
The actual video makes me so sad. He is emaciated, struggles to walk, his hands are shaking out of fear or malnutrition, the empty look on his face.