Posted on 02/28/2022 4:13:17 PM PST by Morgana
Ukraine has paraded captured Russian soldiers in dozens of online videos as Moscow finally admitted its forces have sustained heavy losses after pictures showing bodies of Kremlin fighters emerged.
Footage posted online show tied up 'demoralised and exhausted' Russian prisoners of war captured after they failed to break through Ukrainian defences in Kyiv and Kharkiv over the weekend.
Several of the videos were posted on a Telegram channel set up on Saturday by Ukraine's Interior Ministry called 'Find Your Own'.
Many Russian troops claimed that they believed they were conducting training exercises in the border regions and did not know they were being sent to invade Ukraine.
Meanwhile Russia's defence ministry has for the first time acknowledged suffering losses in the conflict after several bodies of the Kremlin's servicemen emerged.
Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov gave no figures on Russia's dead and wounded but said Sunday his country's losses were 'many times' lower than Ukraine's.
Meanwhile Ukraine's defence ministry put the total number of Russian casualties at 5,300, though that number could not be independently verified and the number of casualties from Europe's largest land conflict since World War II remained unclear amid the confusion.
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Parading pows is a war crime…
Please Ukraine Don’t mess up!
Didn’t the Soviets do it to the POWs of Stalingrad?
There are no ‘rules’ in warfare. Only the limits of depravity you are willing to inflict on other people.
Russia still relies heavily on conscripts for their enlisted ranks. I suspect that their dedication to the cause is not very deep.
And some are literally running out of fuel in the middle of nowhere.
Great movie.
“some are literally running out of fuel in the middle of nowhere.”
Very cold winter weather to be stranded in enemy territory!
Operation Barbarossa redux.
The Geneva Convention only applies to declared wars between signator nations.
There is no declared war. I don’t know if Russia or Ukraine are signators.
Doesn’t make it right.
Those poor souls have it bad enough.
The Russians are targeting and killing civilians with cluster munitions and you're concerned about Russian POWs being shown on video?
Putin is the bad guy. - let’s keep it that way.
Russia still relies heavily on conscripts for their enlisted ranks. I suspect that their dedication to the cause is not very deep.
Especially the ones with family, friends., etc., connections to Ukraine. That’s why Putin has pulled a Stalin and brought in Asiatic Buryats and Muslim Chechens and Dagestani to rape Ukraine.
I’ve seen a bunch of those Russian “POW” videos and haven’t seen so much as a slap. Some shouting. That’s about it. In 2014 PUtinist put out videos of actual Ukrainian POW beatings. And the Ukrainian POW never came home.
PR is real.
I just don’t want any sympathy for the Russians. Parading pows might do that.
Enough already.
I am sure none of you actually want Russian pows to be mistreated either.
There is a reasonable debate wheather the Russians are even POW but rather unlawful combatants not covered by the GC. Putin has not declared war on Ukraine. It’s his “special operation.”
Regardless, the’ve mostly been ID videos. The Russians claim they are “lost” in Ukraine, only exercising, etc. So some interrogation goes on. There is no abuse that I’ve seen on camera.
What’s with the pointed index finger?
So they don’t forget which way is east.
Yes
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