Encouraged by shot legs: Intel intercept exposes bare abuse in Russian army
Ukraine's Defense Intelligence intercepts another conversation in Russian troops (photo: Getty Images)
Russian commanders use pressure, humiliation, and threats of physical violence against their subordinates, the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine reports.
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According to intercepted communications, occupying commanders ignore situations where their troops are left in the field without communications, water, or supplies.
Instead of investigating the causes, they use Russian "traditional" army methods to "solve" such problems.
In particular, the intercept shows the inhumane treatment of soldiers by their command. Threats of physical violence are used to control subordinates, and commanders even suggest shooting them in the legs.
Other intercepts by Defense Intelligence
Recently, Ukrainian military intelligence released a new intercept of conversations among Russian forces, indicating low morale and psychological strain within enemy units, including coercion of soldiers to take part in assault operations.
In addition, Russians were reportedly receiving orders to kill civilians in the Donetsk region, as confirmed by Defense Intelligence's radio intercepts.
Ukraine's Intelligence had also published an intercepted conversation documenting preparations by occupying forces to clear a building with civilians inside near the settlement of Zelenyi Hai in the Donetsk region. In the recording, a Russian commander gives subordinates a clear order to leave no one alive.
Particularly, the intelligence released another intercept in which Russia's troops said they had been ordered to kill civilians near Pokrovsk. According to the recording, this is what they did during the battles for the city, killing all civilians they found in it.
