A detailed, interesting story from a person who just spent a month on the front line (on the Russian side) has appeared on LiveJournal:
On Telegraph (might be more convenient to open and read):
• Part one• Part two• Part three• Part four• [Part five
](https://telegra.ph/Vojna-na-Ukraine-glazami-soldata-s-peredovoj-5-i-poslednyaya-chast-05-19)Original on LiveJournal, with comments:
• Part one• Part two• Part three• Part four[• Part five
](https://victor-shyaga.livejournal.com/1490.html)Here are a few quotes, but I highly recommend reading it in full:
"On the 12th day since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine... having seen the first videos on YouTube of non-humans from the Ukrainian armed forces torturing our (Russian) POWs and wounded, I made the decision to join the army on a contract... The order... stated that I was to be sent for an accelerated training-survival course. It was supposed to be two weeks... In reality – it all turned out to be a lie. Nobody taught us (there were 22 of us) anything. They didn't even let us zero our weapons..."
"In the evening our commander told us that we hadn't completed our mission and that tomorrow morning we had to go assault Dolgenkoye. Many company commanders in the two battalions of the 752nd regiment that were supposed to go on the assault told their fighters that we were being sent to certain death, since the Ukr army has everything zeroed in, and said to decide for yourselves – whether you go or not. 4/5 of us (if not more) refused to go. I also refused. Largely because I physically had no strength left to go on an assault. But many volunteers from other companies went on the attack in the morning. I wasn't in this attack anymore. Three people and our senior lieutenant went from our company…. He was wounded in the leg in this attack. As those who went on this attack later told it – walking from Suligovka to Dolgenkoye was 7 kilometers through the fields. They moved out at 10 in the morning and only reached about 600 meters from the village by 4 in the afternoon. They arrived already completely exhausted. The whole time they were walking under mortar shelling. The wounded and dead started piling up. When they reported to our battalion commander Major Vasyura that there were wounded and killed, he swore, saying, - «fucking leave them and keep going on the attack!!»"
"I'll also say that because of the constant lies, we no longer believed our command. They told us twice before attacks that everything would be fine – that enemy artillery was suppressed, that recon had gone through the tree lines, that up ahead our guys from another unit had already come in (were advancing) from a different direction and we just needed to reach them… But all this turned out to be a lie every time and resulted in new senseless losses among us… We wondered – why were they sending us on these insane attacks!? We thought maybe to expose enemy artillery when it hit us? Or so the Ukr army would use up their ammo stockpiles on us? Then we thought maybe these attacks were needed to distract the Ukr army's attention and forces? I don't know. A lot of us had the feeling that we were just being intentionally wiped out. Getting ahead of myself, I'll say that judging by the fact that different units tried to take Dolgenkoye, I think our command simply had the objective to take Dolgenkoye and they were just sending whoever they had there..."
"They also told a story that one time our guys saw several of ours get captured and being led across a field by Banderites. Our guys made the decision to hit everyone with ATGMs – both ours and the Ukrops, so our guys wouldn't become POWs, so they wouldn't be tortured there… In my opinion, they did the right thing – it's better to die instantly like that than to suffer for hours and days in the hands of these non-humans…"
"I really want as many people as possible to read this article, so that people find out about the real state of affairs on the front… And I really want the supreme commander-in-chief himself – Vladimir Putin – to read this article. I'll try to contact the editorial board of Komsomolskaya Pravda. Maybe they will publish it. If not, I'll try to reach out to foreign publications – maybe they will publish it. People must know the truth…"