Russian troops are said to face assignment to ‘meat assaults’ if they show dissent (Picture: Getty)
Russian commanders are said to be sending troops on deadly ‘meat grinder’ assaults in Ukraine as punishment for showing dissent.
The tactic is being used to silence personnel who become ‘disgruntled’ and means ‘almost certain and very rapid death’, according to a media outlet which has been using open sources to monitor the Kremlin’s losses.
One of the latest examples in the news cited by Mediazona involved a Russian drone operator who filmed a video suggesting his unit had been infiltrated by Western intelligence. Dmytro Lysakhovsky also claimed his commander lied about battlefield victories in eastern Ukraine.
The soldier further says that the officer, who he names as Igor Puzik, is ‘under the influence of a man who directly talks to Western intelligence.’
Lysakhovsky, an experienced soldier with the call sign ‘Goodwin’, makes the allegations before being sent on a near-suicidal infantry assault, apparently as punishment for calling out the corruption in Vladimir Putin’s ranks.
Dmytro Lysakhovsky (left) and Serhiy Gritsay took aim at their commander in what is thought to be a final video before their deaths (Picture: via Mediazona)
Mika Golubosvky, an editor at Mediazona, said: ‘The “meat grinder” tactics were widely used by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group, mostly in the battle for Bakhmut, and later were adopted by the regular Russian army.
‘There are signs that “meat offensives” have become a sort of punishment in the army. If, for any reason, a soldier becomes disgruntled with his superiors, they transfer him to an assault unit, and it means almost certain and very rapid death. So the concept of “disposable soldiers” is really something very prevalent in the current Russian army.’
In his solo video, Goodwin says that his long-range drone reconnaissance unit has been disbanded so that they would stop receiving frontline information before the attack.
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He is pictured in a wooded spot wearing combat fatigues and says he is in the area of the village of Memrik in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.
Goodwin accuses the 87th Separate Rifle Regiment’s commander, who uses the callsign ‘Zloy’, of lying about capturing towns and villages, saying that it happens across the frontline of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
In a translation by the WarTranslated X channel, Goodwin says: ‘I record this because there’s a high chance that I won’t return from this assault.
‘So remember, war must be called war and traitors who lie should be shot or there’s no war but an agreement and a market economy.’
The soldier calmly alleges that his superior was under the influence of a man ‘with contacts in the West’ who ‘strangely passed all filtration’.
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Source:: Metro
