Breaking Legs, Shooting Themselves: Russian Military Do Not Want To Storm Dnipro Islands

• 28.01.2025, 9:34

The phenomenon has become massive.

Russian servicemen inflict deliberate injuries to themselves to avoid storming the Dnipro islands in Kherson region. This was reported by the Atesh partisan movement.

‘Agents of the Atesh movement from the 61st separate Guards brigade of the Marines pass information about mass cases of self-injury among the servicemen of this brigade. Cases of deliberate breaking of limbs and even shooting oneself to pass it off as a combat wound have been recorded,’ the report reads.

Atesh clarified that the purpose of such actions is to get to the hospital to be as far away from the front line as possible and not to participate in the storming of islands in Kherson region.

‘Cruel living conditions, huge losses and lack of prospects for success make them look for any ways to evade participating in hostilities,’ the partisans noted.

They said they continue to receive data about the critical morale in the Russian Armed Forces units.

‘This proves once again that the war against Ukraine is becoming an unbearable test for the Russian servicemen themselves. We urge Russian soldiers to follow the example of their fellow soldiers by harming themselves to save their lives!’ Atesh noted.