Russia Sends Wounded Soldiers Into Battle Near Pokrovsk

Russian commanders sent two infantrymen to storm Ukrainian positions in the Pokrovsk sector—one on crutches and the other unable to walk.

Journalist Yuriy Butusov posted a video of the incident on his Telegram channel.

The footage shows one soldier leaning on a crutch while the other crawls on the ground. The crawling soldier appears to be unarmed, while the one on crutches carries an assault rifle on his back.

“The trick is that they all realize this is a one-way ticket, but they keep crawling as if under hypnosis to be slaughtered by drones,” Butusov wrote.

This is not the first such case. On January 18, wounded Russian soldiers were seen using crutches while advancing near Novotroitske in the Donetsk region.

They were detected and destroyed by Ukrainian drones.

Russians send their wounded to battle

Over the past year, there have been repeated complaints from Russian soldiers that their commanders are forcing them to go into battle despite their injuries and exhaustion.

Moreover, there have been cases where soldiers have been returned to the front line after receiving only primary medical care, ignoring doctors’ conclusions about the need for further treatment.

The case of about 50 soldiers of the 26th Regiment of the 47th Tank Division – in fact, the remnants of three companies – who were returned to the front line directly from the hospital instead of being sent for treatment, has gained particular resonance in Russian military groups.

At the end of January, it became known that a camp for wounded and deserters who are being forcibly sent back to the front was organized in the Kemerovo region of the Russian Federation (Kuzbass).

This camp is being used to form a so-called “penalty regiment” – a unit of wounded and sick people who did not wait for a medical examination, escaped from service, or were transferred there after conflicts with the previous command.