Some audios corresponding to calls from Russian soldiers to their families are revealed shortly after the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine
The enormous distance between what Russian propaganda tells about the course of the war and what really happens on the battlefield has been made clear once again thanks to the communications of the soldiers stationed at the front with their relatives in Russia. The newspaper ‘The New York Times’ revealed this Thursday a series of audios corresponding to calls from soldiers to their families a few weeks after the invasion began, when Kremlin troops surrounded kyiv. In the conversations, the troops openly criticize the president, Vladimir Putin, question the “special operation” and recount the terrible conditions in which they found themselves.
“We are in Bucha. Our defense is stagnant, we are losing this war. We have been given orders to kill everyone we see. Putin is an idiot. He wants to take kyiv, but there is no way to do it », says one of the soldiers. “Mom, this war is the worst decision our government has ever made. When is all this going to end, Putin? Damn,” lamented another. His mother responds by admitting that in Russia the media reported that everything was going “according to plan”.
The audios have been verified by the American newspaper by crossing Russian phone numbers with messaging applications, a process that has taken two months. The conversations were recorded by the Ukrainian intelligence services, but as of Thursday they had not been made public. However, during the first two months of the invasion, local espionage already revealed other conversations with similar content.
Thanks to them you can also glimpse the carnage that takes place in the front. While Moscow and kyiv refuse to offer reliable casualty data, a Russian soldier from the 331st Airborne Regiment confesses, for example, that a 660-strong battalion was “annihilated.” A companion of his affirms that a third of his regiment had also lost their lives.
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