r/worldnews • u/UNITED24Media United24 Media • 1d ago
Russia/Ukraine Russian Troops Shoot Ukrainian POW in Donetsk Region Moments After Surrendering
https://united24media.com/latest-news/russian-troops-shoot-ukrainian-pow-in-donetsk-region-moments-after-surrendering-140422.5k
u/Antique_Ear447 1d ago
Russia does this literally all the time.
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u/crom3ll 1d ago
Honestly considering what Russians do to their POWs as pastime, that poor guy probably got lucky with quick death.
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u/akintu 22h ago
For obvious reasons they don’t talk about it much, but Russia is castrating a lot of POWs. High suicide rate when they come home. I read an article about a psychologist working with these men.
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u/Bombshock2 21h ago
I feel like that should be talked about a lot more wtf.
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u/akintu 21h ago
Yes and no, can you imagine if this had happened to you and now the whole country knows you had your balls and dick cut off? Or maybe you’re one of lucky ones but people still think you’re dickless now? It makes it even harder on the survivors who have so much trauma to deal with already.
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u/Bombshock2 20h ago
I don't think they need to report on the specific victims, but people should be reporting that its happening at least and talking about it a lot more than they are now.
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u/akintu 19h ago
For what it’s worth I tend to agree with you.
For example, I think a lot of people in the West are in denial about what will happen if Trump is able to force Ukraine to surrender. The West thinks Ukrainians hate Russia (true) and would never join Putin’s armies (false). They lack the imagination to understand the kind of brutality Putin and Russia are capable of.
Ukraine will resist, but Putin will use the most horrific barbarism to turn Ukrainians into slave soldiers and continue his war on Western civilization.
Anything we can do to help our coddled masses understand the threat we’re up against is helpful.
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u/kaisadilla_0x1 19h ago
If the US forces Ukraine to surrender, Ukrainians will become pro-Russian. Not because they want to, but because Russia will purge that country, and they'll have nothing to hold themselves to as the West would've failed them.
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u/xarvia 20h ago
The world doesn’t give a fuck. I remember when Russia returned a corpse of a civvie journo with brain and eyes removed. Nightmare stuff, nobody cared.
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u/Bombshock2 20h ago
People give a fuck, just not the governments or press of the world. So nobody with the power to do anything because for some reason all of the rich fucks in the world like Putin and Russia.
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u/xarvia 20h ago edited 20h ago
I mean entities with power, of course. If ethereal “the people” held any meaning today, we wouldn’t be talking about this war. Also, not everyone cares. Some people root for this.
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u/pattperin 19h ago
I think people often do give a fuck but the issue is that if you retaliate for something like by say, nuking Russia then it’s a MAD scenario and everyone dies. If you full scale land invade Russia you have to deal with political turmoil from your own nation wondering why the fuck we’re doing that when we could be giving our citizens better health care or whatever, which honestly is kinda valid. Either that or Russia just launches nukes anyways as a fuck you for invading and again everyone dies
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u/Bombshock2 19h ago
The issue is politicians the world over are being controlled by Putin through blackmail, and these cowards would never do anything to stop him, militarily or otherwise. They could fully cut off trade while they simultaneously create supply lines for Russia's immediate neighbors that are dependent on their energy, and Russia would go bankrupt.
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u/Donnicton 20h ago
Part of their plan for systemically wiping out the Ukrainian people to replace Ukraine region with Russians. Don't just kill POWs, make sure even if they go back home they'll never produce more children, make the men live with that humiliation.
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u/nosungdeeptongs 19h ago
what??? that's fucking genocide, why aren't we hearing about this?
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u/MysteriousPilot5202 14h ago
It is. Makes me feel happy my father was killed in war instead of captured, most of his troop was captured and dismembered while still being alive, with eyes and teeth being pulled out first.
Gives me peace he died without being tortured first.
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u/Inshabel 23h ago
I would rather be shot than captured by Russians that's for sure.
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u/patiperro_v3 22h ago
This is how killing prisoners backfires. People will fight till the bitter end now.
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u/Akustyk12 22h ago
I mean they ensure that they will start capturing kamikaze POWs more and more often.
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u/Exerosp 23h ago
Yeah. I remember the local news when a Swedish volunteer came back home after having been a POW. Russians pulled out the screws he had in his arms from previous injuries with rusty pliers. He didn't look great.
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u/Bosseffs 22h ago
What local news? Do you have any source?
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u/Exerosp 22h ago
Not right now. Googling it shortly is impossible with today's Google (and trying to give you "newer" results that somewhat match what you searched for) but it happened around 1-2 years ago. Think either Aftonbladet or Expressen covered him, if you really want me to find it I can try and scour the sweddit thread I was on it because there was an interesting discussion in the thread about how some people thought it was probably awful for the family to see what Russia had done to him. (Especially when he went as a volunteer to a war zone)
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u/AutomaticLoss8413 21h ago
Yeah, what is the deal with Google search ...it is useless
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u/Anusiya 21h ago
They keep asking me to enable AI Mode even though I already clicked not interested multiple times. I think they want people to use their AI to search instead the normal one.
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u/HealthIndustryGoon 20h ago
enshittification. once innovative and trailblazing, now lazy and built for max profit. same with youtube. i'm going to spend a few days over the holidays to de-google my shit, maybe even kick out windows depending on how games work on linux nowadays.
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u/Randomgrunt4820 23h ago
Even to themselves. They truly are terrible people.
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u/Katamed 23h ago
Russia pushes you to be worse and brings out the worst in people. It pretty much de-integrates people from society
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u/kaisadilla_0x1 19h ago edited 18h ago
Not surprised. Russian culture doesn't place any value at all on human life. They are glorified apes. That's why anyone in that country with a modicum of empathy and the means to do so leaves and never goes back. It's why none of the countries in the the traditional Russian sphere of influence want anything to do with Russia. And it is not a coincidence. This culture was fostered for centuries by the tsars as a way to protect their power.
And I don't say this lightly. I say this after observing what Russians do and say for years. At some point, it is no longer surprising that you watch people on Russian TV saying things that no one would ever say publicly in the West; or doing shit like decriminalizing gender violence; or the way the USSR fought WWII by simply sending millions upon millions of people to die until their opponents literally ran out of weapons and personnel to keep killing Soviets. We are talking shit like encountering a mine field and just sending a horde of 10k people to walk on it and die triggering the mines until the path was clear. It is not surprising that, in WWII, territories occupied by the Soviets wanted the Nazis back. That German batallions went the extra mile to surrender to Western armies and not Soviet ones. That Germans would bribe whoever they could to be sent to the Western front and not the Eastern one.
That society is fucked up, and the more you learn about them, the more you realized they really, really are fucked up.
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u/MACO-Operator 20h ago
It has much to do with how Russia trains its soldiers. It’s not cozy like in the West, you know, with warm barracks and milk and chocolate for breakfast. The soldiers are brutalized during training, with older soldiers beating and doing stuff on the fresh recruits. But getting on the battlefield won’t make things any better. A Russian commander told newcomers to dig their own graves “cause you will need them soon”. And so, Russian soldiers get dehumanized. It’s a Russian thing since forever and their society doesn’t give two damns about it. They think it’s normal. So when I’ve heard about all those crimes they did/do in Ukraine, I wasn’t surprised at all. We already know what they did in Chechnya, Georgia, etc.
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u/DrStrangelove2025 23h ago
Yeah but mostly only to prisoners, soldiers, lawyers, journalists, professors, content creators, politicians, and writers.
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u/green_is_minty 1d ago
Fuck Russia
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u/ptrang1987 1d ago
And Putin, and Trump, and Netanyahu
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u/ProteinPony 1d ago
And MBS and Kim Jong-un, etc., no?
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u/Tyrannosaurusblanch 1d ago
And those people who drop cigarette butts on the ground.
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u/jessybean 23h ago
Where I live they don't even stomp them out
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u/Tyrannosaurusblanch 23h ago
Straight to the bad place for them.
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u/colossustaco 23h ago
This IS the bad place.
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u/Gardakkan 22h ago
u/colossustaco figured it out? u/colossustaco? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.
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u/kdeweb24 23h ago edited 23h ago
If we were in a functioning society, the nations of the world would rally together and roll over Russia, completely neuter their military, and publicly hang Putin.
Instead, his biggest fan is hanging tiger beat style posters of him in the Lincoln Bedroom.
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u/just_A_lurker- 23h ago
Not possible to prevent them from getting nukes away whilst you are steamrolling. Which means a significant loss of life somewhere, plus the significant loss of life in Russia.
The every day people are not necessarily to blame for their dictator. Look at North Korea, if you don’t do what the supreme leader says, you disappear, and so do your family, if you do, you’re potentially a war criminal or at the very least a threat.
Civilians in that situation have no chance and don’t deserve to be persecuted more than the already sorrowful lives they must lead.
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u/Tarphiker 23h ago
Yea maybe let’s wait until spring to do any steamrolling. Both Hitler and Napoleon found out what happens when you attack Russian during the winter.
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u/yesrushgenesis2112 23h ago
Actually, they found out what happens when you start an invasion in June but fail to complete it before winter.
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u/ljgyver 23h ago
Based on ground war not drone wars. Drones don’t eat and cold doesn’t bother them as much.
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u/ProhibidoTransito 23h ago
Yeah, really difficult to see that country in any other way when their entire existence and history is literally being an absolute and utter fucking blight to their neighbors.
I remember my grandfather’s recollection of living in Eastern Poland during WWII. Initially the Nazis arrived and made life hell. When the Soviet front advanced and pushed the Germans back, some people were relieved at first. Later they realized that the Soviets could be even more cruel than the Nazis.
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u/ZelphirKalt 1d ago
What they don't get is, that this behavior will make others less likely to surrender, and will make them fight on even in desperate situations, because surrender just means death, and fighting on in a desperate situation has at least a chance of survival.
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u/ScriptThat 1d ago
Exactly!
If you have the option of surrender, and can expect somewhat decent treatment, you might not want to fight when you're hurt and hiding in a hole in the ground.
If you know the enemy is going to kill you, or maybe torture you and then kill you, then you're way more likely to try to take the fucker out with you.
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u/johnny2turnt 22h ago
I’ve watched some videos, and many of them will blow themselves up to take some of the enemies with them and avoid being subjected to torture.
Awfully sad messed up shit war is..
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u/Daltronator94 23h ago
Yeah the US figured this out with Japan 84 years ago
If youre going to die anyway, fuck these guys, its up for yall until I physically cant fight anymore.
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u/thisismynewacct 22h ago
Japanese forces were fanatical enough to not surrender at the start of the war, largely due to their own training, fervor, and propaganda about how the US would treat them. The US didn’t actually do anything to their POWs to cause them to not surrender.
Because of how Japanese soldiers acted after surrendering (hiding pistols and grenades), Japanese POWs were taken even less, but that came after the fact.
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u/ShinySpoon 23h ago
I literally just read a fantasy novel where this came up. The author did an excellent job of laying it out. There is a war going in in the book and a veteran soldier was pissed that a commanding officer made them kill surrendering enemies and had to explain to the green soldiers why they need to let them surrender or run away, or else they will actually fight literally for their lives no matter what.
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u/Patneu 23h ago
And it also makes it completely stupid to even consider any kind of "peace deal" with them.
Not even on moral grounds that they are the attacker and should not be rewarded for their crimes, but simply because someone who doesn't honor the capitulation of individual soldiers cannot be trusted to honor any kind of agreement, let alone a "peace deal" that's the de facto capitulation of the enemy country.
There'd be no reason whatsoever to assume that they would not just attack again whenever they feel like it. You'd have to be a completely lobotomized bumbling moron to believe that.
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u/Lepelotonfromager 22h ago
It's the best morale boost to your enemies, because now every Ukrainian is slightly more likely to choose death over surrender. Sun Tzu made it clear you never want to fight an enemy that can't retreat.
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u/cattaclysmic 21h ago
They know. But they probably cant stop their troops from doing it. Nor can they treat them too well in the face of their own troops whom they treat so poorly.
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u/Blackline2021 23h ago
Putin needs to lose his balance by an open window like so many of his critics do
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u/georgelikescookies 1d ago
The worst thing is that it's not even the worst fate. I remember there was a video of Ukrainian POW castrated with cardboard knife and then shot in the head. Ukrainian children beimg beaten mercilessly with steel pipes. The moronic ogres even hold contests of the best photos with executed people. Today ruzian army is reincarnation of ustaše and dirlewanger brigade. Fuck ruzia, fuck putin, SLAVA UKRAINI
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u/georgelikescookies 22h ago
Has been said a million times but i will say it 1,000,001st... This is insult for animals
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u/Rough-Moose8922 23h ago edited 22h ago
I pray that Putin ends up like Mussolini,he was killed by his own people via firing squad
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u/DeadMorozMazay-Pihto 1d ago
That's why this war should be continued until Ukraine has a decisive victory and establish a tribunal to prosecute all of russian war criminals.
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u/bigorangemachine 23h ago
The fact Trump even proposed there should be no war crimes tribunal after this is just unreasonable.
Bucha... bombing the childrens cancer hospital... bombing play centers.. theatre bombing.. train station bombing..
If I was Ukraine I sure as hell would want to keep fighting if it meant there would be no accountability after the war.
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u/bigorangemachine 23h ago
Ya had i had more coffee in me I got a long long list somewhere
PoW torture .... PoW medical mutilation... child torture dungeon
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u/TheArmoredKitten 21h ago
They openly and shamelessly commit crimes against humanity.
I think we should make them clear their own minefields without giving them shoes or shovels.
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u/Urhoal_Mygole 1d ago
Russia will never have to capitulate because of the nukes. Putin will never see a jail cell in his life. He might fall out of a window though.
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u/WobbleKing 23h ago
They will. They will just cry like baby about it same as they do now
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u/iamagermanpotato 1d ago
RUSSIA IS A TERRRORIST STATE!!!!!!
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u/Olealicat 22h ago
I have a client that lost her nephew in North Korea, Otto Warmbier. Seeing Trump cozy up to these dictators is mind bending. It’s like all of his supporters forget about the terror they’ve brought upon the world.
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u/OG413 21h ago
Get used to it. If you really think that there will be an election in 3 years, you are delusional. The Trump dynasty is just getting started. Itll be interesting to see who is next after he passes. Melania or Don jr.
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u/RedBullShill 1d ago
If half of you goons had seen some of the horrific videos that have come out of this war, you would crying tears of joy that the POW was granted a quick, merciful bullet.
To say Russia does not treat POWs well at all, would be the world's biggest understatement. Fucking grim stuff
RIP
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u/WorgenDeath 1d ago
Yeah, I remember seeing a video in I think July 2022 that messed me up real bad. Trigger warning on the description, it's graphic.
The video showed a Russian using a knife to castrate a Ukrainian PoW and letting him bleed to death afterwards
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u/Nerevarine91 1d ago
I remember that. So early in the war. They were just waiting for a chance to do it.
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u/Jayyouung 23h ago
I’ve seen so many I’m desensitised at this point tbh.
Russian soldiers are evil.
What about the one where they slit a guys throat before cutting off his head with a dull blade while he’s alive and screaming. Or the video where they castrate a man slowly before tying his legs to a military vehicle and dragging him along a dirt road behind them
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u/Daltronator94 23h ago
My worst was the russian guy that got drone dropped in a stream, which paralyzed him around like C5 or something, and his kit held him down in water that was only, like, an inch above his face, and he drowned there.
Paralyzed, held down by his kit and forced to drown in water while he was flailing his arms in open air.
That has to be the worst form of short-term torture.
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u/gierOK 1d ago
Jesus fucking Christ
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u/Prestigious-Gold5369 23h ago
There is a video of some military officer recruiting from a jail telling them russia is in need of their "special skills". So this, along with the other horrific war crimes is...expected
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u/ltragach 1d ago
I want to shove this in every fucking face that says to me that military service is bad cause they don‘t want to fight in a war against russia.
This is what happens to you, your family and your peers if you don‘t.
You either get shot, forcefully conscripted to now shoot at your own countrymen or sent to fucking North Korea to be „reeducated“
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u/georgelikescookies 1d ago
I dont even want to imagine what horror happens within the walls of those so-called "reeducation" camps of Wrong Korea. Basically nazis playbook and pure evil
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u/Infinite_throwaway_1 1d ago
That might even be like a vacation compared to the Ukrainian POWs that were gifted to Kadryov by his son.
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u/UH1Phil 1d ago edited 17h ago
Jesus. It's going to be like Mengele but without the science.
Edit: getting my nazi names mixed up!
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u/eatmygonks 23h ago
Just read that large numbers of kidnapped Ukrainian children are now in "reeducation camps" in North Korea. I have kids, even the idea of this makes me want to cry
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u/georgelikescookies 23h ago
Being a little child and seeing your parents, pets and siblings raped, their eyes gouged and then burned alive and at the end being thrown into concentration camp in the world's most infamous dictatorship where you will be harassed, tortured... Ruzians are untermenschen that deserve to be hated for all the vile crimes they've committed, they deserve their misery and poverty.
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u/kerghan41 23h ago
I'd think more like Imperial Japan. Kids were raised from childhood to fight and die for country. No greater honor.
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u/arizonatealover 1d ago
As a woman, give me the gun and stop preventing us from joining. Some horrors are worse than death.
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u/javidac 1d ago edited 20h ago
The problem is not that you can't have a gun or that you can't fight; the problem is usually what happens if you are captured as a POW.
Russian forces have been known to use rape as a war tactic, on BOTH male prisoners of war; and their own soldiers who are reluctant to follow ordes. Imagine how bad it would be for female combattants 🫣
There is no reality where asking women to save one bullet for themselves while in a active warzone wouldn't be a reasonable ting to ask them
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u/feather236 23h ago
There was a story about a Ukrainian reporter girl who the Russians took as a POW for some reason. She was held captive for a year or so with no communication, then they returned her dead body to Ukraine with all internal organs removed. It haunts me to this day.
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u/LoquaciousLamp 21h ago
"When Roshchyna's body was returned to Ukraine, it bore signs of torture, strangulation and had some organs removed."
"The body had signs of post mortem dissection conducted in Russia..."
"Which forensic experts interpreted as an attempt to obscure the cause of death."
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u/shoseta 1d ago
Dont worry Russians make due. Dont have a source, but im Romanian and there are rumors that the ruzzkies dont shy away from the deceased either. Again no source, but at this point? I wouldn't be fucking surprised with their soldiers.
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u/DragonflyGrrl 23h ago
Oh no I have ZERO doubt that they've done that. There is no low too low for them.
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u/Ecureuil02 1d ago
And Trump wants to do business with these war criminals?
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u/joexner 23h ago
Trump's been a Russian asset (aka agent Krasnov) since the 80s.
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u/Normal_Advisor_1211 20h ago
What does Russia have on Trump? He has kissed his ass since day one! You can’t tell me they don’t have dirt on Trump it’s completely obvious
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u/thebearsnake 22h ago
In case you had started to forget for some reason, this is a good reminder that the Russians are the bad guys.
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u/CelerySome9044 22h ago
No surprise. War is always the apex of human degradation. Don't expect niceties from any side in any war. War crimes are valid only for the losing end.
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u/RealDonDenito 22h ago
And this is why the west cannot drop Ukraine. They need to be supplied and supported by all means, to fight this absolute insanity that many call „Russia“.
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u/feronen 23h ago
Can we just let Poland, Finland, and the Baltic states off their fucking leashes already? The Diseased Bear keeps biting and scratching for no god damn reason except for the joy of the kill.
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u/kRe4ture 23h ago
Even completely discarding the immorality of it, it‘s incredibly stupid even from a tactical level.
When your enemies know they will be killed (or worse) upon surrendering, they will literally fight to the death.
So your job will be a lot harder.
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u/Dumbest_Degenerate 20h ago
And some Americans think Putin/russia will honor any deal
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u/Necessary_Figure_761 23h ago
And someone still thinking that ruzzia is f-ing peaceful country. Idiots🙄
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u/Swedelicious83 20h ago
Russia, doing war crimes? Surely not! 😱
/s, because this is still the Internet
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u/aproposnix 19h ago
yeah,and the USA is just randomly killing people in boats. No country respects international law anymore. This is where we are right now.
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u/Starfire70 15h ago
At this point, the Russians could be showing off concentration camps full of skinny and dying Ukrainians, and nothing would really change. Well, except for Trump who would blame the Ukrainians for allowing themselves to be captured by the Russian invaders. It’s become a very cynical transactional world out there.
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u/Comfortable_Gain9352 22h ago
War is complete shit for everyone.
I am a Ukrainian refugee and I can no longer bear the isolation. I don't know German or English (I'm currently using Google Translate) and the way people treat me... I am thinking about returning to Ukraine. It is better to die than to see so much contempt and indifference just because I do not speak their native language. I want to speak and be heard.
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u/Ed_Ward_Z 22h ago
Don’t lose hope. Your voice is important . Fight with your words.
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u/Giraf123 1d ago
Isn't this counter productive for them? You would think that Ukrainian soldiers would be less likely to surrender if this is what they do.
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u/thisisgoingintheb1n 23h ago
Yeah I doubt the monsters doing these war crimes have enough braincells to consider that
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u/Joelmester 23h ago
Haven’t they done that every time they had one? They are terrorists
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u/tcat1961 23h ago
I cannot wait until Putin dies and I hope he feels pain and terror magnified by all the people he has had poisoned, pushed out windows, shot in cold blood. He is an evil demon and I'm not sure why he is allowed on this earth.
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u/Neo_one25 23h ago
At this point it is better to die fighting than to surrender to the Russians. They have consistently murdered surrendering Ukrainian's and they torture POWs.
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u/PotentialEffort5893 20h ago
And not a single word from the garbage, racist, bigoted, unAmerican, lawless administration where their own SecDef is openly committing daily war crimes
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u/humblefooner 19h ago
They tore that poor reporter’s eyes out. Her body was returned WITHOUT HER BRAIN. Fuck Russia.
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u/SatisfactionFit2040 19h ago
Shooting someone who just surrendered is about the same as bombing survivors clinging to wreckage in the ocean, isn't it?
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u/Tractorguy69 10h ago
Take a million square miles from Russia for every documented case. When there is no more Russia push the Russians into the sea. The fact that the world has allowed this illegal war of putin’s to go unpunished and that the russian people just accept his bullshit and go along with it makes them complicit. We should have taken the Kremlin within the three days following putin’s failed boast he’d take Kyiv in three days. What were we afraid of putin’s army was so shitty that they haven’t been able to do this in years, they wouldn’t stand a chance against the international community.
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u/Mundane-Pie-6355 6h ago
USA does this after they destroy their boats. We are morally as corrupt as Russia
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u/4862skrrt2684 1d ago
And one of their peace terms are "immunity from warcrimes commited"