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A platoon of 40 Russians abandoned their front-line positions and tried to flee to Crimea, Ukraine says
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A group of almost 40 Russian soldiers abandoned their positions and tried to flee to Russian-occupied Crimea, a Ukrainian military official said.
Oleksandr Shtupun, the spokesman for a major group of Ukrainian forces, told Ukraine’s Espreso TV network that “nearly 40 invaders left their trenches and tried to flee toward Crimea, while remaining armed.”
Shtupun also said there were reports that Russia was trying to stop their efforts and that they “were being hunted down in an attempt to bring them back.”
Shtupun’s claims cannot be independently verified, but many reports of Russian soldiers fleeing and surrendering have emerged throughout Russia’s full-scale invasion, which began in February 2022.
Western intelligence has previously highlighted Russia’s use of more extreme methods to try to stop its soldiers from abandoning the fight, including reportedly deploying special units that threaten to shoot retreating troops.
Morale within Russia’s army is reported to be low, at least in part because its units are seeing big losses and because many soldiers are short on both training and equipment.
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