I’ve heard this same rumor from a Ukrainian friend now living in Western Europe. But if their cellphones were confiscated, how did they get on Tinder and try to flirt with the Ukrainian ladies?
https://www.the-sun.com/news/4757640/russian-soldiers-tinder-ukraine/
The c”ellphone videos of Russian soldiers” may not really be Russian soldiers. If real, they are speaking under duress, trying to mitigate their “guilt” before their captors.
You have to be careful with all the stuff floating around on social media, and coming out of the “regular” media, too.
Yep, absolutely take everything with salt
IIRC the earliest account of this I read about the cellphones was in the context particularly of conscripts