Mobilized Russians are increasingly complaining about conditions at the front

Berlin The setting is always the same: five to ten Russian soldiers, mostly masked, stand in front of the camera. They name their military unit and region of origin and complain about the conditions at the front in Ukraine.

In their videos, the mobilized Russian soldiers contradict their commanders and complain about being sent to the front lines as “cannon fodder”. According to the independent Russian news site Verstka Media, significantly more of these videos have been appearing since the beginning of February than before.

Mobilized soldiers from at least 16 regions have shared images on the Internet in the past few weeks, writes “Verstka Media”. For example, on March 7, men from Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, and Krasnoyarsk complained that they had been “sent to the front for slaughter.”