Cross posted from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/12065041

The Ukrainian army has developed an ingenious method to deal with the desertion wracking it throughout 2025. Mobilized men trying to escape are murdered.

Drug addicts mobilized during their methadone treatments. Mentally disabled men mobilized and beaten for discipline. Ordinary drafted men subjected to the laws of the post-soviet prison system. Drug addicts going through agonizing withdrawals, hallucinating and throwing piss in the same punishment dungeon as conscientious objectors.

All troops go to the toilet under the barrel of a gun. Often all they have is a bottle in their tent. Wrapped up in duct tape and thrown into a concrete floor after an escape attempt, shitting on the floor beneath their immobilized body.

To prevent escapes, training bases are surrounded by mines. Men still try to run away, or perhaps simply prefer suicide by mine to the constant beatings and torture endured daily to break the spirits of the new recruits.

Nine suicides witnessed by one man in four days at the training camp. Commanders play with their recruits, forcing them to beat each other in mock gladiator fights. A mobilized man beaten so hard his face is blue, commanders laughing that he can only crawl, calling him ‘bluey’.

Dozens officially dead of ‘pneumonia’ this year. A 50 year old Baptist conscientious objector, forcefed through an IV drip after he went on hunger strike, beaten daily by a medic whose call sign was ‘Satan’. His wife said his broken body had an ‘inexplicable dent’ in his back. His face unrecognizable, only identifiable by a mole. Heart problems, the doctors concluded. No signs of a violent death.

A soldier suffering from methadone withdrawals dragged around the base from a quad bike. He and others photographed with large patches of skin missing. Complains to family he’s being beaten so hard he’s shitting himself. He escapes to a hospital and tells doctors of his ordeal. Dead a few days later.

Dogs maul those trying to escape the camps. The training camps. Dogs are set on anyone else breaking discipline. Ribs broken during meetings if you mess up paperwork.

Commanders call all of them ‘one-time uses’. That’s all that any soldier is good for — one assault operation. At least someone in Maryland or London can get some frisson from news of counter-offensives by the daring, democratic Ukrainians.

The west is funding a concentration camp army. That’s from the words of Ukrainian soldiers, quoted by the most liberal, western-funded Ukrainian media out there. Of course, this latest investigation into the obscene brutality reigning in the army won’t be translated into English any time soon. Luckily, we’ll go through it together.

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