OSINT researcher records over 200 cases of Russian suicide on the battlefield

An OSINT researcher has discovered more than two hundred cases of suicides of Russian soldiers on the battlefield.

GloOouD released the video on his X account.

The two-hundredth case of suicide was recorded on January 9, but as of today, January 14, there are three more such cases.

Ukrainian troops record many cases of suicides by Russian soldiers after unsuccessful assaults, most often by wounded soldiers but sometimes by entire infantrymen.

Seriously wounded invaders who their comrades abandoned often commit suicide.

One of the reasons for such actions is the poor moral and psychological state as a result of the dismissive attitude of the higher command and constant assault operations that end in heavy losses.

In addition, it is reported that Russian servicemen are instructed to commit suicide by self-detonation or a shot to the head, even during surrender.

According to the Ukrainian military, the same instructions are given to the North Korean military contingent.

Losses of Russian troops

It has recently been reported that the Ukrainian project “I Want to Find” has received requests from Russians to search for more than 50,000 missing servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces.

The data on 50,000 missing Russian invaders correlates with the number of DNA tests collected in Russia to identify the bodies of military personnel. In November, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anna Tsivilova announced that 48,000 samples had been collected.

At the same time, Andrey Kartapolov, chairman of the Russian Duma Defense Committee, asked that “these figures not be voiced anywhere else” and that the information have been removed from the final documents. According to him, this is “classified sensitive information.”

In November, BBC journalists, together with the Mediazona publication, identified the names of 80,973 Russian soldiers who died during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine based on open data.

As of January of this year, the Horiushko project has identified more than 90,000 liquidated Russian military personnel by name.