Russian occupiers often resort to desertion and leave combat posts. More than 200 Russian soldiers are being sought in the occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhia region, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports on Facebook, Ukrainian Pravda reports.

“Russian troops and mercenaries of the occupying forces are massively leaving their posts in the temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhia region.

Separate units of the Russian Guard have been dispatched to the city of Primorsk to conduct search operations. According to preliminary data, more than 200 people have been declared wanted.”

In addition, the General Staff confirmed the destruction of the S300 anti-aircraft missile complex, eight units of military equipment of various types and ammunition storage in Zaporizhzhia in the previous days.

The General Staff also reported that more than 150 Russian soldiers were injured.

Russians, dissatisfied with equipment and training

In October, a conversation between a Russian conscript and his wife, intercepted by the Security Service of Ukraine, testifies to the organization of Russian troops at the front and the work of “blocking troops” who are supposed to shoot conscripts in the event of an escape attempt.

According to the intercept, the recruited prisoners are shot by the recruits, who in turn are shot by the regular troops.

“The convicts were brought here from the colony. Earlier they were driven somewhere. And we are here as barricades: if someone escapes, we eliminate him. Here’s how it’s done: I mean, we’re here on the second line, guarding the first, and there’s another line behind us. You can’t escape there either. It is impossible to escape – our people will be shot…”, says the Russian recruit.

On December 9, Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted for the first time that since September 21, when he ordered a partial mobilization, there have been problems with the equipment of the soldiers, after numerous videos shared by Russian recruits themselves on social media showed this.

At a press conference in Bishkek, Putin said some of the supply problems for the 300,000 men called up for a mobilization campaign in September and October were now easing.

Last Tuesday, the head of the Kremlin instructed the government to create a so-called working group to coordinate issues of mobilization and training of mobilized reservists in connection with numerous complaints of Russian conscripts and soldiers.

Currently, images of Russian recruits who either did not receive the necessary training or were forced to buy provisions on their own were being circulated.

Soldiers of the invasion army deployed to Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin have filmed themselves complaining that they were abandoned in the forest with no food or water and only rifles.

A video that went viral on social media in November showed Russian conscripts’ dissatisfaction with their conditions, lack of or lack of medicine, training and military equipment, culminating in an officer being beaten, threatened to be killed by the will to be “broken” and that his “head would fly off”.

Later, a preventive measure was chosen for the mobilized Russian in the form of detention.

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