[OmniJackal]

Originally Posted by SDI ↗

There are really alot suicide vids of RU soldiers around. Any idea why? Why so frequent?

Not an expert but based on observations I’d say it’s because the Russians know how bad their triage/medevac is and/or they know the Ukrainians will repeatedly attack gravely wounded soldiers.

If given the choice on waiting for help that will never come or waiting for 2 or 3 more grenades to be dropped on me by some dipshit playing a video game in a hole 2 miles away I’d off myself too.

[Rikbikboo]

Ill add to this. Were we told by pows in other videos that ex prisoner recruits were told to kill themselves rather than be caught plus something about their families getting a military pension if they are kia?.

Wasnt there talk of them being given a hand grenade and told to use it in the event they were injured to prevent capture? and again for the same reason regarding the pension?. and something about not being able to retreat as they would be shot if they tried to anyway. (I might be wrong)_

[Roosta]

Originally Posted by SDI ↗

There are really alot suicide vids of RU soldiers around. Any idea why? Why so frequent?

Because there fucked physically, injury ect or sheer mental exhaustion, no food or water & can't really move around or take a shit because of stressing about drones all day long.

Bad situation to be in when the majority of the world wants you dead because of poo tins 3 Day SMO / invasion & the genocidal tactics employed by his dicktakership.
No real other way out, you fight, you die, you hide, you die, you run, you either get shot by your own or get spotted by a drone & it's lights out, either way you look at it, your fucked no matter what, so what's the difference when or how, as your only another mounting statistic at the end of the day & poo tin couldn't give a fuck about you, hence the meat waves style of combat with no real clear objective in mind, just so long as they try to keep pushing forward at any cost.
Some can handle the situation better than others, they adapt & overcome but others just give up, there spent, no hope, physically & mentally drained, surrounded by their dead comrades reeking of putrid death & the like doesn't have the setting for a normal kind of existence & they know it, so it's fuck this, goodnight.

[kellyhound]

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed Tuesday a decree to pay 5 million rubles ($68,800) in aid to the families of Russian soldiers who were killed in the war in Ukraine.

The decree, which includes additional social guarantees for Russian soldiers, security forces and their families, was published on the Russian Legal Information Agency’s website.

Meanwhile, 3 million rubles ($41,300) will be paid to the soldiers who were injured or went through a trauma during the war.

The decision, which took effect as of the date it was signed, will cover the families of the soldiers who lost their lives and those who were injured as of Feb. 24, when the Russia-Ukraine war started.


IRL: A Russian soldier who was severely wounded while fighting in Ukraine has received only two buckets of carrots and a bag of onions from the government instead of the money his family thought he would receive, according to a new report.

The report was published on Tuesday by the independent investigative outlet Mozhem Obyasnit (We Can Explain), which reportedly interviewed the soldier's wife for the story.

The Mozhem Obyasnit article said Oleg Rybkin, 45, was mobilized from Russia's Volgograd region to fight in Ukraine in September 2022. In June, Rybkin was in combat near the village of Robotyne in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

As the outlet noted, Robotyne was the site of fierce fighting during the summer phase of Ukraine's 2023 counteroffensive until Kyiv declared it had liberated the village from Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces in late August.

While serving in Robotyne, Rybkin "was wounded in the abdomen, liver, kidneys" and his "right knee joint was destroyed," Mozhem Obyasnit wrote.

Rybkin reportedly underwent an operation at a local hospital in Ukraine before undergoing abdominal surgery at a hospital in Sevastopol, Crimea. Russia's military medical commission then deemed Rybkin to be "temporarily unfit" to fight, and he was sent to Saint Petersburg for further rehabilitation.

The soldier's wife, Irina Rybkina, described her husband as being in extreme pain and in need of a knee surgery that he never received. Nevertheless, he was soon reportedly made to return to his unit.

Newsweek reached out to the Russian Ministry of Defense via email on Wednesday night for comment.

"He has severe pain, his knee cannot straighten, and he cannot walk without crutches. He's on painkillers and sleeping pills," Irina told Mozhem Obyasnit, which published a photo on its website of what is said was an extract from her husband's medical record.

Medical professionals have told Irina that her spouse needs a knee replacement procedure, but she claimed that Russia's military command doesn't want to be forced to pay the 3 million rubles ($32,730) in compensation and a lifelong pension that Oleg would receive if he's found permanently unfit to serve.

Instead of the rubles and a pension, Irina told Mozhem Obyasnit that the only help Russian government officials have given her family is in the form of two buckets of carrots and a bag of onions grown by local farmers.

"What vegetables, what gifts, do I need to replace my husband's joint and get him discharged!" she said.

Mozhem Obyasnit reported that Oleg is currently back serving in his unit while using crutches.

[kellyhound]

1/2. 110th hunting and destroying russian soldiers and their equipment in the Pokrovsky direction.

3/4. 12th AZOV Brigade close encounters of the enemy kind in the forests of the Luhansk region.

[kellyhound]

1. 68th firing missiles on russians at night.

2. Ukrainian soldiers throws grenade at russian soldiers.

3. The ISDM Zemledeliye is a new mobile mine laying system produced and manufactured by the russian defense industry based on an 8x8 KamAZ truck and gets destroyed in this video.

4. Dead russian soldier.

5. Dead pilot of a SU-25.

6. THIS is the moment Ukraine appears to shoot down a russian Su-30 fighter jet worth £38million.

Dramatic footage shows the plane spiralling into the Black Sea off the coast of occupied Crimea after it fired missiles at Ukrainian targets.

Video shared by Ukraine's forces shows the plane nosediving from the sky after an impressive assault.

It had unleashed four out of the jet's six Kh-31P supersonic anti-radar missiles at unspecified Ukrainian targets.

Some russian Telegram channels claimed the Su-30 from Saki military airfield in Crimea suffered mystery technical problems before it crashed.

Debris including a wing and an oil slick from the supersonic warplane were later found in waters off the annexed peninsula.

[ace123]

wow according to this thread Ukraine is really winning

[Guns N' Coffee]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed Tuesday a decree to pay 5 million rubles ($68,800) in aid to the families of Russian soldiers who were killed in the war in Ukraine.

Meanwhile, 3 million rubles ($41,300) will be paid to the soldiers who were injured or went through a trauma during the war.

IRL: A Russian soldier who was severely wounded while fighting in Ukraine has received only two buckets of carrots and a bag of onions from the government.

And if you are declared "Missing in Action" or they never identify your body, nobody will be getting the rubles or the delicious vegetables.

[Poster101]

Originally Posted by DoktorDoris ↗

i think the flashing is just an interaction between the LED light, which is flashing too fast to notice, in order to save power, and the frame rate of the camera. in the same way supercars' headlights would flash sometimes on Top Gear.

There is tactical reason to use a strobe flashlight when clearing ditches because it is much more disorientating for the enemy who is in the dark in the foxhole. I can see it both ways but that is what I read on another site about strobe flashlights

[AmigoBandar]

Originally Posted by ace123 ↗

wow according to this thread Ukraine is really winning

More like the invaders are losing.