A regiment of drafted Russian soldiers who made video plea to Putin to stop them being 'slaughtered' are now mostly dead, report says

Sat, 03/04/2023 - 08:36

This photograph taken on September 11, 2022, shows a Ukranian soldier standing atop an abandoned Russian tank near a village on the outskirts of Izyum, Kharkiv Region, eastern Ukraine, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Drafted Russian soldiers made a video appeal to Vladimir Putin for help.
They feared they would be "slaughtered" and criticized their commanders' "lawless and criminal orders."
Most of the soldiers in the regiment have died in Donetsk since recording the video, a report says.

Almost an entire regiment of mobilized Russian troops have reportedly died after they recorded a video appeal to President Vladimir Putin saying they were being sent "to be slaughtered" in Ukraine.