Re: Vene-Ukraina sõda
Postitatud: 12 Aug, 2022 22:11
Vene sõdur kirjutas raamatu sõjast Ukrainaga
Russian paratrooper Pavel Filatiev spent two months fighting against Ukraine. Then he quit the army and wrote a book condemning the Russian invasion.
We had no moral right to attack another country’ Russian paratrooper pens memoir condemning February invasion of Ukraine
On the ‘military exercises’ before the full-scale invasion
In mid-February, my company was at a training ground in Staryi Krym. I realized that something was definitely brewing — everyone who had been discharged or fallen ill was rounded up and sent to the training ground.
Over the next few days we went to the firing range, where I finally picked up my machine gun. It turned out that my machine gun had a broken belt and was just rusty. On the very first night of shooting, the [cartridge] jammed.
At some point on February 20, the order came for everyone to urgently pack up and move out; there was about to be a forced march to an unknown destination. At that point, everyone was already dirty and exhausted. Some had been living at the training ground for almost a month without any preconditions, everyone’s nerves were on edge, and the atmosphere became increasingly serious and incomprehensible.
On February 23, the division commander arrived and, congratulating us on the holiday [Defender of the Fatherland Day], announced that as of tomorrow the daily wage would be $69. It was a clear sign that something serious was about to happen.
On the first days of the invasion
[On February 24], I woke up at 2:00 in the morning [in the back of a KamAZ truck]. The column was lined up somewhere in the wilderness, and everyone had turned off their engines and headlights. Rocket artillery was operating to the right and left of our column. I couldn’t understand: are we firing at advancing Ukrainians? Or maybe at NATO [forces]? Or are we attacking? Who is this hellish shelling aimed at?
The column slowly began to move. I heard gunfire and explosions from the direction we were going. Where we were going and why wasn’t clear. [But] it was clear that a real war had begun. I [later] found out that [we had] orders to go to Kherson. It became clear that we had attacked Ukraine…We already had wounded and dead [servicemen]. The command had no communications. The commander didn’t understand what was happening.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/08/12 ... er-country
Russian paratrooper Pavel Filatiev spent two months fighting against Ukraine. Then he quit the army and wrote a book condemning the Russian invasion.
We had no moral right to attack another country’ Russian paratrooper pens memoir condemning February invasion of Ukraine
On the ‘military exercises’ before the full-scale invasion
In mid-February, my company was at a training ground in Staryi Krym. I realized that something was definitely brewing — everyone who had been discharged or fallen ill was rounded up and sent to the training ground.
Over the next few days we went to the firing range, where I finally picked up my machine gun. It turned out that my machine gun had a broken belt and was just rusty. On the very first night of shooting, the [cartridge] jammed.
At some point on February 20, the order came for everyone to urgently pack up and move out; there was about to be a forced march to an unknown destination. At that point, everyone was already dirty and exhausted. Some had been living at the training ground for almost a month without any preconditions, everyone’s nerves were on edge, and the atmosphere became increasingly serious and incomprehensible.
On February 23, the division commander arrived and, congratulating us on the holiday [Defender of the Fatherland Day], announced that as of tomorrow the daily wage would be $69. It was a clear sign that something serious was about to happen.
On the first days of the invasion
[On February 24], I woke up at 2:00 in the morning [in the back of a KamAZ truck]. The column was lined up somewhere in the wilderness, and everyone had turned off their engines and headlights. Rocket artillery was operating to the right and left of our column. I couldn’t understand: are we firing at advancing Ukrainians? Or maybe at NATO [forces]? Or are we attacking? Who is this hellish shelling aimed at?
The column slowly began to move. I heard gunfire and explosions from the direction we were going. Where we were going and why wasn’t clear. [But] it was clear that a real war had begun. I [later] found out that [we had] orders to go to Kherson. It became clear that we had attacked Ukraine…We already had wounded and dead [servicemen]. The command had no communications. The commander didn’t understand what was happening.
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/08/12 ... er-country
