Over the weekend, the Ukrainian authorities established a hotline to attach Russian households to prisoners of warfare and casualties incurred through the ongoing invasion launched by President Vladimir Putin on Feb. 23.
The hotline, reportedly referred to as “Ishchi Svoikh” (Look For Your Personal), in accordance with Radio Free Europe, hopes to chop by Russian-controlled state media and present Russian residents, together with family and friends members of troops on the bottom, how extreme the scenario in Ukraine is.
The Washington Put up additionally famous that the hotline is supposed to win over the hearts of minds of Russians as casualties of the battle climb. Although Moscow has not commented on the variety of Russian troops misplaced, Ukrainian Land Troops official web page shared a submit claiming that greater than 3,500 Russian troopers had been killed, although it’s not attainable to independently confirm that declare presently.
Movies of captured Russian troops have been shared with translated captions to the Safety Service of Ukraine’s official Fb web page, displaying them sharing their ideas on the invasion. It’s not attainable to verify whether or not or not statements by these POWs have been made beneath duress.
“I need to say that nobody wants this warfare. It’s very scary,” one Russian troop mentioned.
One other added that they didn’t know what they have been doing in Ukraine.
“We arrived, we reached the border, however requested the platoon commander what we have been doing,” the soldier mentioned. “He didn’t reply us however mentioned go additional. We don’t know the duty, we don’t know its objective.”
In a video translated by Radio Free Europe, Vadym Denisenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s inside minister, promised to deal with Russian POWs with human dignity, and to reunite households with the our bodies of these misplaced within the battle.
“For that motive, now we have been pressured to enchantment to you, residents of Russia, so as to discover those that have been killed on our territory — and killed as a result of he illegally crossed our border based mostly on an unlawful and despicable order by your president,” Denisenko mentioned in a video posted to the Ukrainian Inside Ministry’s YouTube channel.
Russia has acknowledged that a few of its personnel have been taken prisoner, wounded and killed with out offering numbers, in accordance with state media.
“Russian servicemen are displaying braveness and heroism through the particular navy operation. However, regrettably, there are killed and wounded amongst them,” Russian Protection Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov advised TASS information company.
Konashenkov added that Russia’s losses are by far lesser than “losses amongst Ukrainian troops,” TASS reported.
Sarah Sicard is a Senior Editor with Army Occasions. She beforehand served because the Digital Editor of Army Occasions and the Army Occasions Editor. Different work will be discovered at Nationwide Protection Journal, Process & Goal, and Protection News.
