Tuesday 27 September 2022 02:05 PM Russian men 'call Ukraine to surrender BEFORE being drafted' trends now
Russians are calling Ukraine to surrender before even being drafted into the military as moral within Putin's ranks collapses, Kyiv has claimed.
Andrii Yusov, spokesman for the Ministry of Defence, said men who are fearful of the draft have been getting in touch with a surrender hotline to check how to give up safely before they are called to the frontlines.
Meanwhile videos have emerged showing a newly-recruited tank commander who has been told he will deploy to the Kherson frontline in just two days without so much as firing a shot on a training range.
More footage captures two troops sitting in a field in Ukraine and complaining that they have been abandoned by their commanders without food or water, and that they would be better off fighting for the other side.
Kyiv's generals claimed to have killed 550 Russian soldiers in the past 24 hours after conscripts began arriving on the front, underlining the meat grinder that Moscow's rag-tag reinforcements are being thrown into.
A newly-conscripted Russian tank commander complains that he and his crew have been told they will deploy to Kherson within two days having been given no training
A Russian soldier claiming to already be in a foxhole in Ukraine says he and his comrade (right) were abandoned with no food or water and are being shelled
In footage posted online, the tank commander says: 'The officials have told us that there will be no training prior to us being sent to the conflict zone.
Our commander officially confirmed that we'll be sent to Kherson on the 29th September. Make your own decisions about what to do with that moving forward...
'There's been no training whatsoever - no shooting, no theoretical training... nothing. F***.'
Mark Krutov, a journalist from Radio Free Europe, managed to track down the commander, and confirmed he is at a barracks called Kalininets in Moscow.
The man said he was a night-shift worker from Moscow who was asleep at home when soldiers knocked on his door and ordered him to the front.
Asked to elaborate on his complaints, he replied: 'Can't talk now, things have changed drastically, hopefully for the better,' and went out of contact.
Meanwhile other footage showed two men claiming to be Russian soldiers sitting in a fox-hole in a forest, purportedly in Ukraine.
'Here we are in the forest,' the man says to camera as his comrade sits behind him.
'We were just shelled, they hit us from metres away. We were left in the forest... Like cannon fodder sent to the f***ing forest.
'What [are our commanders] playing at with this army that simply doesn't work? It's worse than working in the Ukrainian armed forces.
'F***ing f***ers... And none of the commanders of our team are here, they all f***ed off, they were the first to go. Now there's just us 'contractors'.
Vladimir Putin last week ordered the conscriptions of hundreds of thousands of Russian men into the army, and launched a plan to annex parts of the country to Russia
'There is nothing on our machines, no supplies, no electronics. No binoculars, no thermal imagers, nothing at all. Machine gun and ammo. And the bayonet. But there is not a f***ing thing. Here we sit, waiting. Let's see what will happen.
'At night we sit on the battlefield, on the front line. It's right across the field. These bastards have left us without f***ing water. No food. Let's see what will happen next.'
Meanwhile another piece of footage showed what appeared to be a female quartermaster talking to new recruits and advising them to bring tampons .
The sanitary products can be used to plug bullet wounds and stop bleeding in the absence of medical kit, the woman tells the new recruits.
Other items they are advised to bring themselves include their own sleeping bags, tourniquets, medicines and roll mats.
'They won't give it to us?' one of the new recruits asks.
'It's all our own, boys,' the woman shouts back. 'You
