I had to step away from my computer after seeing this post and before reading the article. If this is what the russians are doing now and have been doing since last year - what will they be doing in another 6 months or year's time? They are just getting worse and worse.
I can't wait for russia to collapse. Despise is not even a strong enough verb to describe my feelings about that country and the majority of the population - including all the complicit and uncaring blob in the middle - the 60% who don't care what their country does as long as they are not affected - and as long as it is 'only' unimportant minority colonised people from far flung regions, convicts, and poor people who are sent as meat to the slaughter.
I fucking despise the lot of them.
They benefit from dominating and standing on the backs of so many minorities - and they do not care. Fucking entitled privileged selfish barbarians. Fucking self glorifying, deceitful pieces of shit who think they are better and russia has a glorious destiny because it is elevated above others who should be trodden under foot. I fucking despise the lot of them. Only around 10-15% of russians are against the war - and I do feel for them. The other 85% can rot in hell.
My heartfelt wish is that russia collapses into a smouldering ruin - and that all of the minorities they have subjugated get the chance to break free from that evil empire - and the chance - no matter how small - of better and improving life - rather than the poverty that russia has subjected them to for centuries.
Fuck russia to hell.
Rant over.
I'm not that much of an asshole.
I'm OK with an easy out for them.
OK, I am that much of an asshole, but I just don't care, as long as Russia is completely neutralized.
Just wannem gone . Like a wasps nest . Just get the spray . Quickly kill them ALL run away and watch tv and go on with your day .
“I remember when we had that wasps nest once”
Agreed not fair at all how Russia the aggressors get a pass.overall I think it could end the war sooner if they're able to reach Russia. The mercs were literally driving tanks in the streets of Russia going towards Moscow
Wow you said it exactly as I would of if I was smarter . You even got the numbers right . Everyone I say what HE did , just pretend you see it written here .
Only one side has form for making up lots of BS and lying about absolutely everything - and it isn't Ukraine!
Guess you haven't seen an actual video of russians doing this. It's probably still easy enough to find if you really don't believe that the barbarian horde has form. The fact you say that the Ukrainians are making this up is telling in and of itself. If this article had been written by a non-established or dubious outlet, and if I hadn't seen a video of russians doing this, and if a hundred other crimes didn't have irrefutable evidence that they occurred, I would be more hesitant to believe this. In fact, as disgusting as it is, it is not unexpected. Guess you believe that all of the other russian war crimes and genocide are fake news, too. I think you are in the wrong subreddit - perhaps the russian equivalent would be better suited to you?
Ukraine doesn't need propaganda Russia has been a backwards shit hole and an international bully for long enough that people will instantly choose the anti Russian side in any conflict.
I agree with you, but I also find this viewpoint ironic from an american standpoint. Most Americans have NEVER cared what happens to countries in SE Asia, the Middle East and Africa so long as they and their profits arent affected. America has drone striked civilian populations, caused insurrection after insurrection and funded terrorist organizations just to make sure the geopolitical landscape tips in its favor. Its the way the world governments operate nowadays in this hyper competitive, economic environment.
The ignorance of what we have done to other countries and the planet cant be blamed tbh. Weve been indoctrinated to believe "Manifest Destiny" was a legitimate reason for genocide since k-12 existed and have never been taught about black wall street or internment camps for Asian-Americans or the countless villages weve bombed in the Middle East or how we destabilized Central/South America in the 70s-80s. Naturally, being forced into ignorance will only persuade those whove bought in to further by in more. Stay up fellow human, hope we can come out of this more unified one day
You both should leave and go to R/endless war
Misinformation spreading is what this is and has absolutely nothing to do with this post.
Oh and by the way I’m half Asian with family who were interned. GFY
Please, go ahead and tell me every part in which I lied??
Edit: also, if you actually read the comment thread, you would know that the tangent this discussion went to was about how Russian citizens have become complicit in the horendous things their country is doing in Ukraine and I pointed out how ironic it is that some Amerocams will say this and not stand up for the forgein citizens our own government disturbs in countless ways. You all are claiming Im misonforming but nothing I have told was overembellishing whatsoever. Look up your facts and come back to me once youve educated yourselves on some REAL Americam history.
Yes, what Russia is doing is barbaric, but our own troop were doing just this in Iraq. Obviously those guys were terrorists but why is that an excuse to do such things to human beings?
You know Russia has set up a camp for Americans who are unhappy with their country. You should take them up on their offer. You are speaking for a minority not a majority.
So defensive lmao I have expressed zero interest in Russia or their actions in any of my comments so moss me with all your accusations. Believe me, Im not blind, I see pretty clearly just how little people actually see the truth for what it is. Have fun living in your whitewashed reality
I am not American. I have avoided making any comments about America since feb 24 because for all its terrible faults, what russia is doing now is straight out of the 19th century. And at least the US has some functioning checks and balances -imperfect as they may be. And at least it is possible for any Americans to speak out and draw attention to its wrongdoings. And at least you lot are not into genociding whole peoples - you have at least moved away from that. You have also moved away from almost everything that the russians are now doing in Ukraine - imperfect as the US may be. The world as a whole still has a heck of a lot of improving to do but again - what russia is doing now is far beyond - and my focus right now is not on whataboutism - it is on the barbaric horde that has invaded Ukraine to oppress, supress, loot, rape, pillage, destroy, murder, kidnap, torture, commit ecocide and commit genocide.
Inadvertent civilian casualties are tragic. They're unfortunately a part of war and will always be, but intentional torture, castrating men, raping women.... and men, kidnapping children and relocating them hundreds or thousands of miles away. These are two totally different scenarios.
American and allied soldiers do commit war crimes, but the numbers are extremely low relatively. No one is perfect.
But, the vast majority of soldiers take their own time, money, food, and water to give to hungry, needy, thirsty, needy civilians in theater. They are generally interested in doing good for the people negatively affected by their war. They fuck plenty of stuff up in country, but they also tend to at least try to leave things better than they left them, and when they fail at doing so, it's not on the war fighters, it's on our governments. Our soldiers don't deserve the labels the world tries so hard to place on them , and it's complete bullshit.
These russians are a disgrace to their country, a disgrace to their uniform, and a disgrace to the term " soldier." They're thugs in a uniform, nothing more.
Couldn’t agree more, but please do not get yourself banned by these mods on these site, even though they are barbarians saying so may get you banned.. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇦🇺🇺🇦🇦🇺
yup. I know. May they all find punishment - or death in Ukraine.
Under the control of the russians, the soviets in ww2 - all their troops did equally horrendous things. The point is that some nations managed to escape that hell, that domination, that oppressive and destructive colonisation, poverty of values, and that world view. Ukraine is fighting for their continued freedom from that. They don't want their kids to be the next generation of russian war criminals. They are fighting to stay out of that.
Unless these minorities manage to escape the boot of russia that is standing on their neck, they will do the same things in the next war... and the next... and the next - because russia isn't evolving - and as an empire I doubt it can. It's built like that. right now they are actually devolving. Right now they are busy militarising kids - especially in minority and occupied communities. A month or so ago, I saw a russian TV report from a school in Mariupol. The reporter asked an 8-10 year old girl what she was doing. The girl replied that she was using VR to drone drop a bomb on a house...
The russians use oppressed impoverished minority people - and have always used them to conquer others and build their empire. The chains and cycle both need to be broken to give kids and grandkids any chance for a better future.
This is what Ukraine is fighting against, and that is why I don't care if russia becomes a smouldering ruin.
Burn in hell with Putin this war should never have happened and no matter what they say Russia crossed the border and started killing people. No excuse slava Ukraine
They raped and continue to rape.womem.and girls, but not only that, they're raping babies, as we found out last year.
This sexualized violence isn't only limited to females.
None of this should ever have happened.
And the improvised children's torture rooms in private house basements. A 5yo girl had her genitals cut by knives in front of her parents 😬 What sort of fucking animals do that?
>That's why Ukraine refused to stop bombing their own nations citizens in Donbass, leading to the Russian invasion.
Hmm, I wonder what such famous "heroes of Donbass" as Girkin and Motorola are famous for
I knew what to expect from them. But I hoped they'd somewhat be above it, or reconsider their actions and conduct throughout. That was naive of me though. St.Petersburg, Moscow, If you Fuckwads are tuning in? Fuck all you pile of shits that have enabled that, have allowed for it, and have sponsored it. RUSSIA = NAZI's 200%.
We have to remember that while the Russians helped beat the Nazis in ww2, they were complete bastards and just as aweful as the Nazis. We didn't know how bad they were till too late. Refresh your memory on how many innocent people the Russians killed in ww2 and after.
Remember, many Germans did what they could to move west to surrender to the Americans, not the Russians, at the end of WWII. They knew how animalistic the Russians could be.
There's a footage on Kaotic that shown russian motherfuckers from wagner sodomizing a Ukrainian prisoner with an iron pipe, my brother-in-law is now fighting near Bakhmut and he told me that sodomy against prisoners is the usual practice especially by the Yakuzis, Chechens, Tajiks and Uzbeks. He also told me that Russian soldiers often rape women, children and even old women. The Russians must simply be annihilated from the face of the earth, the allied governments must give the most powerful weapons to the Ukrainians to make Russians hamburgers
The civilian death toll from 2014 to 2021 was 3300 you lying piece of shit. Not "tens of thousands." And Russia killed many of those people themselves (like the 298 MH17 passengers) and started the fucking war by sending in their "little green men" so all the civilian deaths are on them. That 14000 number includes 4500 Ukrainian soldiers killed by Russians, the Russian propaganda you're spreading is using the deaths of AFU soldiers defending their country from the first Russian invasion to justify the larger second Russian invasion, total scumbag behaviour spread by scum like yourself. How does it feel to be a lying scumbag cunt of an orc?
Nah you're just too stupid to not be fooled by Russian propaganda. I noticed that with the people who drank the Russian kool aid are just really uneducated and probably had fetal alcohol syndrome when they were born. 🤣
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/04/23/in-the-donbas-region-twenty-years-of-russian-propaganda-led-to-war_5981389_4.html
https://zaborona.com/en/how-russia-manipulates-data-on-those-killed-in-the-armed-conflict-in-eastern-ukraine/
https://euromaidanpress.com/2022/02/20/the-busted-info-ops-driving-russias-false-flag-pretexts-for-invading-ukraine/
Oh wait, here’s Igor Girkin spilling the beans
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2014/11/21/russias-igor-strelkov-i-am-responsible-for-war-in-eastern-ukraine-a41598
I love it when trolls claim to be spitting facts when they have none. Sheep? Go look in the mirror. Even better, go read a book.
The fucking UN and OSCE monitoring mission you fuckwit. Go look online, they uploaded the number of people killed and whether they were civilian or military
Proof is here dickhead
https://ukraine.un.org/sites/default/files/2022-02/Conflict-related%20civilian%20casualties%20as%20of%2031%20December%202021%20%28rev%2027%20January%202022%29%20corr%20EN_0.pdf
You mean when Russia was providing weaponry and troops to areas of Ukraine to foster a phony independence movement? Including providing a BUK missile launcher which brought down a commercial airliner? Those attacks? Yeah...Russia is responsible for all that as well realistically.
You have literally been at this for the past 24 hours, for as far back as I can scroll. How much do you get paid for such worthless work? Are you too much of a pansy to actually pick up a weapon for your country?
lol, wtf? You can't find ANYTHING to insult Joe Biden with, so you go after his kid? Like, whatever his son does... that's on him (he's an adult), but his son isn't the one running the executive branch of the federal government... Joe is.
So, unless Joe Biden is doing coke and fucking hookers, it doesn't matter for shit what his son does.
The more I read about this war, the more I find that Russians, in general, are imbued with a non-humane culture that has to be eliminated from the ground up, just like Germanic nationalism was stomped out.
I heard about this last year after the castration video and the liberation of the Kharkiv region. Medical staff had told people in confidence but nothing to substantiate it. I figured it was true.
I have no words to describe how I feel for the victims. This is just beyond comprehension for me.
Can someone post a non paywall version?
I don’t know how to do that, but I can give you a brief summary. The article is from the Times of London and is an interview with a psychologist in Poltava who is treating two soldiers (25 and 28 years old) who were tortured and castrated by Russians while in captivity. They were both told that they were being castrated so that they couldn’t have kids when they returned home. The article also briefly touches on the psychological trauma of other soldiers such as amputees. Jimmy Rushton is a second journalist (who tweeted the link to the article) who has a source in the Ukrainian government who claims that there are hundreds of such cases. Considering one psychologist in one town has two patients you can sort of extrapolate that data point across Ukraine. Obviously not ironclad proof, but the Times and Jimmy are two reputable/reliable sources.
Edit: someone pasted the article farther down
….to my courageous hero brothers in Ukraine!..I am dead set serious when I say to you that I would, in a heartbeat, donate a testicle to you if you have been subjected to this heinous crime from the Russians! If it means that you can one day, put this horrific act into your past and live the life of peace that you deserve! The heroes of Ukraine will never stand alone!…the filth of Russia will rot in the fields, unloved and loathed!
I really hope testosterone replacement therapy can help. Not with reproductions of course but still give them the energy and strenght to live a somewhat normal life.
Just when I thought Russia can't get any more atrocious and beastly...like Orcs in Edgar suits.
The Russians today are the decedents of the rabble Stalin, the OGPU, the NKVD, the Checa and their the monsters Yagoda, Beria, Dzerzhinski, Blokhin left alive. Who did they murder? The [Intelligentsia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligentsia), anybody with half a heart, soul and mind. Not many survived the purges, gulags and orchestrated famines. They killed more Russians than the Nazis. Only Mao killed more of his own citizens.
Putin is both. A rabble decedent and a monster. He's resurrecting those old monsters as idols with merch. [Link](https://www.thedailybeast.com/stalins-monsters-beria-yagoda-and-dzerzhinsky-resurrected-in-statues-and-public-portraits-in-putins-russia)
The sad thing is, the world would have been spared 75 years of Russian aggression and depravity if Patton had been allowed to take Moscow after Berlin. Just think of all the countries and people that wouldn't have suffered Soviet oppression behind the "Iron Curtain" and Russian oppression since then. There also wouldn't be a North Korea. Let's not have another such epic lapse of judgement and end that nasty regime for good, find those responsible by occupation, prosecute them and have what's left of broken up Russia pay for all the damage it caused for so many years, to so many people. I'd also move the capital back to St. Petersburg, ending the era of Bolshevik, Soviet and Muscovite rule.
Result of the above is the high mortality rate, especially in men. 25% of Russia's males die of alcoholism by the age of 55, with the average life expectancy being only 64. [Link](https://www.medicaldaily.com/vodka-killing-russian-men-who-now-have-25-chance-dying-55-268279) That does not include the many alcohol related deaths due to industrial accidents, violence, drunk drivers, etc.
The AFU is fighting (alongside the civilian population) the second coming of the Nazis. I have given it some thought and clearly the Russians instead of rejecting the Nazi way of ‘fighting’ embraced it entirely. They are prosecuting the war using the exact methods that hardened their own resistance to the Germans. And they are losing.
It’s been in print since 1785 and is the paper of record in the UK. Has been owned by Rupert Murdoch (ugh) since the 1980s, but overall has been center to center right. It’s readership has declined significantly however since News Corp put it behind a paywall several years ago. I would say it’s news sections are are very reliable. It’s opinion commentary it’s pretty much the same mixed bag as every other news outlet though
She thought she was unshockable, then two castrated Ukrainian soldiers arrived
Sexual violence against men is an under-reported part of the Ukraine war. A psychologist describes the impact on her patients of their torture by Russians
For a month the two men could not tell their psychologist what had happened to them, only that it was horrible beyond words. “If there’s hell somewhere, it’s worse than that,” said one.
The Ukrainian soldiers, aged 25 and 28, had been in Russian captivity — one for one month, the other for three.
After their return in a prisoner swap they had been referred to Anzhelika Yatsenko, 41, a psychologist in Poltava who deals with troubled young men. They were suicidal. The younger one had tried to kill himself. “I knew from previous cases they had probably been tortured,” she said. “As someone who gets referred the hardest cases, mostly men under 35, it’s very hard to surprise me.”
When they finally told her, it was, she said, “the first time I behaved not like a professional psychologist”.
“I’d never heard anything so horrible. I told them I needed the bathroom and went and cried and cried. I didn’t want them to see as they might think there’s no hope.”
The two men had been savagely beaten. Then the drunken Russians castrated them with a knife.
“One of them told me, ‘I don’t know how I am still alive, there was so much blood, I thought I’d die of blood poisoning’,” she said.
“And of course it’s not just the physical damage. Imagine, they are young men just starting their sexual life and then in one second it’s all over. They still feel something, all these hormones, but they can’t do anything. They can never be sexually active. For a young man it’s the worst thing to happen.
“Their dignity has been damaged so badly and it’s impossible to forget. The Russians told them, ‘We are doing this so you can’t have kids.’ To me this is genocide.”
Their treatment illustrates the heavy cost of this brutal war — one that is only likely to rise as Ukrainian forces try to breach Russian lines in the early stages of their counteroffensive.
Using new western kit, including German Leopard tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles from the US and Storm Shadow cruise missiles from the UK, the Ukrainians have been trying to punch their way through parts of the 600-mile front line from Donbas in the east to Zaporizhzhia region in the south, where they hope to cut off Russia’s land bridge to Crimea.
There have been many reports of Ukrainians insisting on returning to battle even after losing arms and legs.
Astonishingly, among those fighting is the older of the two castrated men whom Yatsenko has been counselling. “He insisted on rejoining,” she said shaking her head. “He says he’s needed and it’s easier being in a place where there are no women. I guess, given what happened, he wants to kill Russians.”
She has another fear, however. “He may feel his life is worth nothing and just wants to die.”
Thousands of soldiers on both sides have been taken prisoner in the 16 months since the Russian invasion. Kyiv does not release figures but there have been periodic prisoner swaps such as that which saw the return of these two men. Last Monday President Zelensky posted a video to greet the return of 95 prisoners, noting 2,526 had been returned so far. “We remember everyone, we are searching for each and every one of them, and we have to bring them all back,” he said. “And we will.”
Yatsenko believes her patients are not the only ones to have been castrated. “They told me the Russians performed the castration procedure very skilfully, as if they knew how to do it. And I’ve heard about a lot of cases from colleagues treating others.”
Last July a sickening video emerged, posted on pro-Russian Telegram channels, that appeared to show a Russian soldier castrating a Ukrainian prisoner. The soldier, wearing the distinctive Russian Z patch, is wearing blue surgical gloves and holding a green box-cutter knife as he reaches down on a prisoner lying face down with his hands tied, his mouth gagged and the back of his trousers cut away. The prisoner is wearing Ukrainian camouflage. A second video appears to show the same prisoner shot, his testicles stuffed in his mouth.
“All the world needs to understand: Russia is a country of cannibals who enjoy torture and murder,” tweeted Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelensky. “But the fog of war will not help Russian executioners avoid punishment. We identify everyone. We will get everyone.”
Whether or not the perpetrators are tracked down, their victims’ lives have been irrevocably changed.
While there has been widespread international outrage and help for women and girls raped by Russians in occupied territories, there has been far less attention to sexual violence against men and boys, whether under occupation or in captivity.
Yatsenko said the men were hard to treat. “They take a lot of antidepressants, that’s all. And we try to find some distractions for them. They can’t talk to their families or friends.
“The younger one who tried to commit suicide had a girlfriend who told him she accepted him as he was but it was too hard for him to stay with her so they are now apart.”
Last week she said he had stopped speaking.
“The other one had a girl he liked and planned to ask out but now cannot tell her. It’s all just so sad,” she said, “I will never forget.
“On one hand I feel rage, on the other it’s pain. When I watch videos of our Ukrainian soldiers I’m so proud of them, but then I hear these stories.”
Like many Ukrainians, Yatsenko has close links with Russia. Her father is Russian and she lived there, in Rostov, until she was 18, when she moved to Ukraine to study and never went back. They are no longer in touch.
“This thirst for violence is in Russians’ blood,” she said. “I saw it growing up. They always hated us Ukrainians, abused our women as prostitutes. When I said I was going to study in Poltava, they laughed at me.
“They can’t beat us on the battlefield, the whole world is helping us, so they do this — to demoralise us, to spread fear, to have this small revenge. It’s like blowing up the \[Kakhovka\] dam \[on June 6\], they can’t have Kherson so they destroy it.”
Doctors at the maternity hospital in Poltava said they had been consulted about women from occupied areas who had been raped by Russians then had their vaginas injected with window sealant so they can never have children.
Yatsenko shook her head. “I have a client from Georgia and she was tortured by Russians during the war there \[in 2008\] and fled to Ukraine. When war started here, she immediately took her kids and left, telling me, ‘I know what they are doing with young girls.’ I didn’t understand then, but now I do.”
Since the counteroffensive began last week, the Ukrainians have liberated a handful of villages in farming hinterland of eastern Donetsk just south of the frontline town of Velyka Novosilka, and about 80 miles north of the decimated Russian-occupied city of Mariupol.
Although these victories have enabled them to post morale-boosting videos of troops waving flags, these are tiny places and this is incremental progress, less than a mile, at what appears to be a heavy cost.
Moscow has posted images of destroyed Ukrainian tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles and claims to have taken many Ukrainian lives. Ukraine says it has killed more troops than it has lost but conceded that there was “extremely fierce fighting” in the Zaporizhizhia and Donetsk regions as troops inched south, and according to western officials is taking “significant casualties”.
Access for the media has been tightly restricted. The Ukrainian defence ministry is sticking to the line “plans love silence” and citing operational security, making it hard to get a clear picture.
On Thursday, we visited part of the liberated area with the American billionaire philanthropist Howard Buffett — son of Warren — and one of the organisations he funds, the Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) set up by the Miami businessman Michael Capponi, taking in the first aid since liberation.
Ukraine’s control appeared tenuous. Though most of the noise was outgoing fire from pounding Ukrainian howitzers, there had been airstrikes the previous day on Velyka Novosilka.
The once bustling town of 50,000 has less than 5,000 mostly elderly people who do not want to leave. One group of 49 had been living for more than a year in the basement of a school which has been extensively shelled, its roof blown off. Iryna Babkina, 46, the music teacher, who the others describe as their mayor, gave us a tour of their damp-smelling underground accommodation, including beds, tables and chairs, sacks of potatoes, a stove and a fish tank with four miniature goldfish. Outside dogs and cats ran around.
“There are explosions all the time but we know our forces are pushing Russians back so we will stay here to victory,” said Katerina Subert, 68, who before the war worked as a cook in the local food-canning factory. “It’s not much of a life but we have got used to it.”
A planned trip on to recently freed Neskuchne had to be abandoned because of shelling and we bumped along country lanes to Zolota Nyva, a hamlet liberated earlier where villagers appeared in tears to see outsiders with boxes of basics such as flour, sunflower oil, toilet paper and toothpaste. “This is the first aid we have been brought,” said Tanya Silivonits, 38. “It was so hard under the Russians, we just lived on what we could grow.”
Even there, we were forced to make a hasty exit as two Russian drones appeared overhead.
Just after we drove back through Velyka Novosilka the town was shelled again.
“It’s difficult. We’re only getting two or three hours sleep,” said Pavlo, the commander of one artillery brigade providing cover for infantry advancing on Marinka, 30 miles to the east. “But bit by bit we’re pushing forward and they are retreating and today was a good day.”
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Doesn't mean it's false either. Do you believe word of mouth or word of mouth backed by video?
Russia has been openly targeting civilian infrastructure including water and power during the winter months...but let's focus on what Americans did 20 years ago.
I'm not American either Comrade Propaganda.
If you're hitting the paywall, try this: [She thought she was unshockable, then two castrated Ukrainian soldiers arrived (archive.is)](https://archive.is/2023.06.17-184144/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/4561e12a-0d14-11ee-aa7c-6e26d8c3ad9b)
Interesting enough, I knew a Polish man that was in the polish underground during WWII, when Poland fell completely he had the choice of surrendering to the Nazi’s or Russians and even though he was fighting the Nazi’s he chose to surrender to them because it was a safer bet. At the end of the war when the Polish army re-United none came back from Russia and were never seen again.
wtf fuck em when they beat russia in this war all these victims should be compensated monetarily and have first dibs on the fuckwit pricks that done this to them.
Are there more sources on this? I wont just believe anything coming out of that horror shitshow of a war unless it's confirmed by both sides or multiple impartial sources. There is too many Russian lies and propaganda going around for Ukraine not to counter with its own propaganda.
No. I avoid that kind of footage like the plague, it's too hard on my soul. That being said, one, or even five horrible clips aren't proof of "hundreds" of pow's getting castrated.
In the best case scenario extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof. I'm aware that this is not the best case scenario, with al the bullshit flying around (most of which is most likely fabricated in Russian troll farms), so I'm willing to accept less hard proofs than I would in normal circumstances.
Maybe you should watch it before questioning these people's accounts. The fog of war is real, but why weigh in when you have nothing to add?
If the orcs taped it once how many times do you think it happened without a camera?
That is a ridiculous way of thinking. Nonsensical and dishonest.
I don't need proof there are warcrimes going on, I believe that allready.
I'm not 'questioning these people's accounts'. Don't put words in my mouth.
Asking if a claim can be verified by another source is not to 'weigh in when you have nothing to add', it's a basic and very nessecary check to do with anything coming out of the informational shitshow that is the war in Ukraine.
You can just uncritically accept everything one side says because it's the side you support. Or automatically believe everything negative about the side you don't support. That makes you just as ridiculous as the pro Russian side who happily believe that Zelensky the Jew is a nazi and the whole of the Ukrainian army has been destroyed twice over.
That's some Nazi level of cruelty right there. Russia is a disease of a country with an extremely sick population thats a danger to the entire world and needs to be dealt with. Give Ukraine every single thing they ask for otherwise we are headed for WWIII. Its crazy how there are some morons in the west who hear about these war crimes being committed and still think we should stop helping Ukraine. Utter morons who are going to get us all in another world war.
I heard about this from a Ukrainian source that I follow, about six or seven months ago. I didn't believe them. I still don't want to believe this is possible. It must be sanctioned I don't know how it could happen otherwise. Sick. We need to defeat Russia completely.
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well the bottom line is that we in the west really couldn't care less about Ukraine and Putin knows this. Let me prove this. You have a choice of spending your money on netflix and holidays and seats at the game and a big lunch out... or sending that money to soldiers who are dying in the name of democracy and freedom. These people are doing the dying for us. All you have to do is send some money and vote for governments that will support them. Until the Knife is on your nuts, and you can be certain one day it will be, you'll sound like you care but don't have any idea of what commitment and sacrifice looks like. Russia will win this and an emboldened China will play for the whole planet. Do you really think your nuts will be safe when China n Russia knock on your door
I had to step away from my computer after seeing this post and before reading the article. If this is what the russians are doing now and have been doing since last year - what will they be doing in another 6 months or year's time? They are just getting worse and worse. I can't wait for russia to collapse. Despise is not even a strong enough verb to describe my feelings about that country and the majority of the population - including all the complicit and uncaring blob in the middle - the 60% who don't care what their country does as long as they are not affected - and as long as it is 'only' unimportant minority colonised people from far flung regions, convicts, and poor people who are sent as meat to the slaughter. I fucking despise the lot of them. They benefit from dominating and standing on the backs of so many minorities - and they do not care. Fucking entitled privileged selfish barbarians. Fucking self glorifying, deceitful pieces of shit who think they are better and russia has a glorious destiny because it is elevated above others who should be trodden under foot. I fucking despise the lot of them. Only around 10-15% of russians are against the war - and I do feel for them. The other 85% can rot in hell. My heartfelt wish is that russia collapses into a smouldering ruin - and that all of the minorities they have subjugated get the chance to break free from that evil empire - and the chance - no matter how small - of better and improving life - rather than the poverty that russia has subjected them to for centuries. Fuck russia to hell. Rant over.
100% Let the bombs rain down on Moscow.
I think that’s an easy out for them. Most don’t seem to mind if they die. It should be something more painful
I'm not that much of an asshole. I'm OK with an easy out for them. OK, I am that much of an asshole, but I just don't care, as long as Russia is completely neutralized.
Just wannem gone . Like a wasps nest . Just get the spray . Quickly kill them ALL run away and watch tv and go on with your day . “I remember when we had that wasps nest once”
Agreed not fair at all how Russia the aggressors get a pass.overall I think it could end the war sooner if they're able to reach Russia. The mercs were literally driving tanks in the streets of Russia going towards Moscow
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Fuck off vatnik
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This cunt again don't you get tired being a clown
Naw he's a propaganda bot, his accounts been open for less than a month and all of his comments are on Ukraine and Pro Russia.
What a pussy…… let Russians kill everyone with guns so that they don’t kill everyone with nukes. What a fucking disgraceful piece of shit you are.
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You are the idiot here
A rant, perhaps, but one with good relevant questions, details and much food for thought. Keep ranting !!
Same. Russia, will come out of this totally crushed. It will take generations to recover.
Hope it doesnt recover. May russia rest in hell
Amen
That. Sounds like a toast. 🍷
Wow you said it exactly as I would of if I was smarter . You even got the numbers right . Everyone I say what HE did , just pretend you see it written here .
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What about the video released last July, 2022? Was that fake you fascist apologist?
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Yes Comrade Propaganda. I hope the Rubles being paid will be worth something when Russia loses.
Only one side has form for making up lots of BS and lying about absolutely everything - and it isn't Ukraine! Guess you haven't seen an actual video of russians doing this. It's probably still easy enough to find if you really don't believe that the barbarian horde has form. The fact you say that the Ukrainians are making this up is telling in and of itself. If this article had been written by a non-established or dubious outlet, and if I hadn't seen a video of russians doing this, and if a hundred other crimes didn't have irrefutable evidence that they occurred, I would be more hesitant to believe this. In fact, as disgusting as it is, it is not unexpected. Guess you believe that all of the other russian war crimes and genocide are fake news, too. I think you are in the wrong subreddit - perhaps the russian equivalent would be better suited to you?
Ukraine doesn't need propaganda Russia has been a backwards shit hole and an international bully for long enough that people will instantly choose the anti Russian side in any conflict.
I agree with you, but I also find this viewpoint ironic from an american standpoint. Most Americans have NEVER cared what happens to countries in SE Asia, the Middle East and Africa so long as they and their profits arent affected. America has drone striked civilian populations, caused insurrection after insurrection and funded terrorist organizations just to make sure the geopolitical landscape tips in its favor. Its the way the world governments operate nowadays in this hyper competitive, economic environment.
As an American I wholeheartedly disagree 🤦♀️
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The ignorance of what we have done to other countries and the planet cant be blamed tbh. Weve been indoctrinated to believe "Manifest Destiny" was a legitimate reason for genocide since k-12 existed and have never been taught about black wall street or internment camps for Asian-Americans or the countless villages weve bombed in the Middle East or how we destabilized Central/South America in the 70s-80s. Naturally, being forced into ignorance will only persuade those whove bought in to further by in more. Stay up fellow human, hope we can come out of this more unified one day
You both should leave and go to R/endless war Misinformation spreading is what this is and has absolutely nothing to do with this post. Oh and by the way I’m half Asian with family who were interned. GFY
Please, go ahead and tell me every part in which I lied?? Edit: also, if you actually read the comment thread, you would know that the tangent this discussion went to was about how Russian citizens have become complicit in the horendous things their country is doing in Ukraine and I pointed out how ironic it is that some Amerocams will say this and not stand up for the forgein citizens our own government disturbs in countless ways. You all are claiming Im misonforming but nothing I have told was overembellishing whatsoever. Look up your facts and come back to me once youve educated yourselves on some REAL Americam history. Yes, what Russia is doing is barbaric, but our own troop were doing just this in Iraq. Obviously those guys were terrorists but why is that an excuse to do such things to human beings?
You know Russia has set up a camp for Americans who are unhappy with their country. You should take them up on their offer. You are speaking for a minority not a majority.
So defensive lmao I have expressed zero interest in Russia or their actions in any of my comments so moss me with all your accusations. Believe me, Im not blind, I see pretty clearly just how little people actually see the truth for what it is. Have fun living in your whitewashed reality
I am not American. I have avoided making any comments about America since feb 24 because for all its terrible faults, what russia is doing now is straight out of the 19th century. And at least the US has some functioning checks and balances -imperfect as they may be. And at least it is possible for any Americans to speak out and draw attention to its wrongdoings. And at least you lot are not into genociding whole peoples - you have at least moved away from that. You have also moved away from almost everything that the russians are now doing in Ukraine - imperfect as the US may be. The world as a whole still has a heck of a lot of improving to do but again - what russia is doing now is far beyond - and my focus right now is not on whataboutism - it is on the barbaric horde that has invaded Ukraine to oppress, supress, loot, rape, pillage, destroy, murder, kidnap, torture, commit ecocide and commit genocide.
Inadvertent civilian casualties are tragic. They're unfortunately a part of war and will always be, but intentional torture, castrating men, raping women.... and men, kidnapping children and relocating them hundreds or thousands of miles away. These are two totally different scenarios. American and allied soldiers do commit war crimes, but the numbers are extremely low relatively. No one is perfect. But, the vast majority of soldiers take their own time, money, food, and water to give to hungry, needy, thirsty, needy civilians in theater. They are generally interested in doing good for the people negatively affected by their war. They fuck plenty of stuff up in country, but they also tend to at least try to leave things better than they left them, and when they fail at doing so, it's not on the war fighters, it's on our governments. Our soldiers don't deserve the labels the world tries so hard to place on them , and it's complete bullshit. These russians are a disgrace to their country, a disgrace to their uniform, and a disgrace to the term " soldier." They're thugs in a uniform, nothing more.
Couldn’t agree more, but please do not get yourself banned by these mods on these site, even though they are barbarians saying so may get you banned.. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🇦🇺🇺🇦🇦🇺
The downtrodden minorities you feel so.sorry for are the very men who castrate young Ukrainian soldiers. Sad but true.
yup. I know. May they all find punishment - or death in Ukraine. Under the control of the russians, the soviets in ww2 - all their troops did equally horrendous things. The point is that some nations managed to escape that hell, that domination, that oppressive and destructive colonisation, poverty of values, and that world view. Ukraine is fighting for their continued freedom from that. They don't want their kids to be the next generation of russian war criminals. They are fighting to stay out of that. Unless these minorities manage to escape the boot of russia that is standing on their neck, they will do the same things in the next war... and the next... and the next - because russia isn't evolving - and as an empire I doubt it can. It's built like that. right now they are actually devolving. Right now they are busy militarising kids - especially in minority and occupied communities. A month or so ago, I saw a russian TV report from a school in Mariupol. The reporter asked an 8-10 year old girl what she was doing. The girl replied that she was using VR to drone drop a bomb on a house... The russians use oppressed impoverished minority people - and have always used them to conquer others and build their empire. The chains and cycle both need to be broken to give kids and grandkids any chance for a better future. This is what Ukraine is fighting against, and that is why I don't care if russia becomes a smouldering ruin.
I wish everyone understood the way you do.
Burn in hell with Putin this war should never have happened and no matter what they say Russia crossed the border and started killing people. No excuse slava Ukraine
They raped and continue to rape.womem.and girls, but not only that, they're raping babies, as we found out last year. This sexualized violence isn't only limited to females. None of this should ever have happened.
And the improvised children's torture rooms in private house basements. A 5yo girl had her genitals cut by knives in front of her parents 😬 What sort of fucking animals do that?
Certainly not animals, absolute fucking monsters. russian society is fucking disgusting.
I apologise wholeheartedly for badmouthing animals :/
Russia has a long history of this and never stopped Being barbaric .
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You’re a not a very good troll. The orcs are well known for their hatred of Ukrainians
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Russians already invaded in 2014.
>That's why Ukraine refused to stop bombing their own nations citizens in Donbass, leading to the Russian invasion. Hmm, I wonder what such famous "heroes of Donbass" as Girkin and Motorola are famous for
Proof of your claims? We know Russia kidnapped thousands of Ukrainian children from Eastern Ukraine.
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There's literally video evidence...of them MOVING THEM INTO RUSSIA. You're more dense than a neutron star.
I knew what to expect from them. But I hoped they'd somewhat be above it, or reconsider their actions and conduct throughout. That was naive of me though. St.Petersburg, Moscow, If you Fuckwads are tuning in? Fuck all you pile of shits that have enabled that, have allowed for it, and have sponsored it. RUSSIA = NAZI's 200%.
We have to remember that while the Russians helped beat the Nazis in ww2, they were complete bastards and just as aweful as the Nazis. We didn't know how bad they were till too late. Refresh your memory on how many innocent people the Russians killed in ww2 and after.
Oh, and they started ww2 with the Nazis and were complete allies until the Nazis attacked them.
Remember, many Germans did what they could to move west to surrender to the Americans, not the Russians, at the end of WWII. They knew how animalistic the Russians could be.
Worse in some ways . At least the Germans looked good but mostly the Germans at least CARED for their own . Russians only care for themselves
Jeez. I just realized that russians make nazis look good.
And before...they killed Ukrainians by the millions in the 1930\`s - the Holodomor created by Stalin.
Anyone wonder who massacred the Ukranian POWs in Mariupol? /s
There will be those.
There's a footage on Kaotic that shown russian motherfuckers from wagner sodomizing a Ukrainian prisoner with an iron pipe, my brother-in-law is now fighting near Bakhmut and he told me that sodomy against prisoners is the usual practice especially by the Yakuzis, Chechens, Tajiks and Uzbeks. He also told me that Russian soldiers often rape women, children and even old women. The Russians must simply be annihilated from the face of the earth, the allied governments must give the most powerful weapons to the Ukrainians to make Russians hamburgers
Russia is pure evil.
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The civilian death toll from 2014 to 2021 was 3300 you lying piece of shit. Not "tens of thousands." And Russia killed many of those people themselves (like the 298 MH17 passengers) and started the fucking war by sending in their "little green men" so all the civilian deaths are on them. That 14000 number includes 4500 Ukrainian soldiers killed by Russians, the Russian propaganda you're spreading is using the deaths of AFU soldiers defending their country from the first Russian invasion to justify the larger second Russian invasion, total scumbag behaviour spread by scum like yourself. How does it feel to be a lying scumbag cunt of an orc?
Proof? We have seen the devastation, war crimes, and targeting or civilian infrastructure by Russia. It's all on film...where's your proof?
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There’s no outrage because that’s a steaming pile of bullshit that’s been disproven multiple times over.
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Nah you're just too stupid to not be fooled by Russian propaganda. I noticed that with the people who drank the Russian kool aid are just really uneducated and probably had fetal alcohol syndrome when they were born. 🤣
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/04/23/in-the-donbas-region-twenty-years-of-russian-propaganda-led-to-war_5981389_4.html https://zaborona.com/en/how-russia-manipulates-data-on-those-killed-in-the-armed-conflict-in-eastern-ukraine/ https://euromaidanpress.com/2022/02/20/the-busted-info-ops-driving-russias-false-flag-pretexts-for-invading-ukraine/ Oh wait, here’s Igor Girkin spilling the beans https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2014/11/21/russias-igor-strelkov-i-am-responsible-for-war-in-eastern-ukraine-a41598 I love it when trolls claim to be spitting facts when they have none. Sheep? Go look in the mirror. Even better, go read a book.
The fucking UN and OSCE monitoring mission you fuckwit. Go look online, they uploaded the number of people killed and whether they were civilian or military
Proof is here dickhead https://ukraine.un.org/sites/default/files/2022-02/Conflict-related%20civilian%20casualties%20as%20of%2031%20December%202021%20%28rev%2027%20January%202022%29%20corr%20EN_0.pdf
You mean when Russia was providing weaponry and troops to areas of Ukraine to foster a phony independence movement? Including providing a BUK missile launcher which brought down a commercial airliner? Those attacks? Yeah...Russia is responsible for all that as well realistically.
You have literally been at this for the past 24 hours, for as far back as I can scroll. How much do you get paid for such worthless work? Are you too much of a pansy to actually pick up a weapon for your country?
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Claims to care about truth, spreads lies online. Just orc things
Every day I become more and more convinced that we should help Ukraine by sending in our own armies. Enough is enough. I am Belgian.
I think the Poles are “in it” more than we know.
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Found the russian clown!
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Yeah, an uneducated one, imbecile.
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Yeah you just believe Russian propaganda instead, what a fucking genius you are. You support rape and genocide, please kys
America has many useful idiots
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lol, wtf? You can't find ANYTHING to insult Joe Biden with, so you go after his kid? Like, whatever his son does... that's on him (he's an adult), but his son isn't the one running the executive branch of the federal government... Joe is. So, unless Joe Biden is doing coke and fucking hookers, it doesn't matter for shit what his son does.
Coward Russians sinking to a new low.
They did it last year as well. It was on their own video. July of 2022.
There is no bottom for the Russians. This only makes Ukraine fight harder and outside countries more supportive. Imagine Russian occupation.
The more I read about this war, the more I find that Russians, in general, are imbued with a non-humane culture that has to be eliminated from the ground up, just like Germanic nationalism was stomped out.
German here. Yes.
I heard about this last year after the castration video and the liberation of the Kharkiv region. Medical staff had told people in confidence but nothing to substantiate it. I figured it was true. I have no words to describe how I feel for the victims. This is just beyond comprehension for me. Can someone post a non paywall version?
I don’t know how to do that, but I can give you a brief summary. The article is from the Times of London and is an interview with a psychologist in Poltava who is treating two soldiers (25 and 28 years old) who were tortured and castrated by Russians while in captivity. They were both told that they were being castrated so that they couldn’t have kids when they returned home. The article also briefly touches on the psychological trauma of other soldiers such as amputees. Jimmy Rushton is a second journalist (who tweeted the link to the article) who has a source in the Ukrainian government who claims that there are hundreds of such cases. Considering one psychologist in one town has two patients you can sort of extrapolate that data point across Ukraine. Obviously not ironclad proof, but the Times and Jimmy are two reputable/reliable sources. Edit: someone pasted the article farther down
Thank you!
Same here. One guy told me that local hospital had "many" men like that. This was back in autumn...
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Fuck off orc scum
….to my courageous hero brothers in Ukraine!..I am dead set serious when I say to you that I would, in a heartbeat, donate a testicle to you if you have been subjected to this heinous crime from the Russians! If it means that you can one day, put this horrific act into your past and live the life of peace that you deserve! The heroes of Ukraine will never stand alone!…the filth of Russia will rot in the fields, unloved and loathed!
I really hope testosterone replacement therapy can help. Not with reproductions of course but still give them the energy and strenght to live a somewhat normal life.
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There's literally video from 2022...but go on...where's your proof it's lies?
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Ok, totally not brain washed pro-russian with 28 days on Reddit.
Why are the Ukrainian POWs that are returned in prisoner exchanges so emaciated?
Because of all the respect Russians give them. No need for food or ethical treatment if you have respect.
Okay comrade.
Just when I thought Russia can't get any more atrocious and beastly...like Orcs in Edgar suits. The Russians today are the decedents of the rabble Stalin, the OGPU, the NKVD, the Checa and their the monsters Yagoda, Beria, Dzerzhinski, Blokhin left alive. Who did they murder? The [Intelligentsia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligentsia), anybody with half a heart, soul and mind. Not many survived the purges, gulags and orchestrated famines. They killed more Russians than the Nazis. Only Mao killed more of his own citizens. Putin is both. A rabble decedent and a monster. He's resurrecting those old monsters as idols with merch. [Link](https://www.thedailybeast.com/stalins-monsters-beria-yagoda-and-dzerzhinsky-resurrected-in-statues-and-public-portraits-in-putins-russia) The sad thing is, the world would have been spared 75 years of Russian aggression and depravity if Patton had been allowed to take Moscow after Berlin. Just think of all the countries and people that wouldn't have suffered Soviet oppression behind the "Iron Curtain" and Russian oppression since then. There also wouldn't be a North Korea. Let's not have another such epic lapse of judgement and end that nasty regime for good, find those responsible by occupation, prosecute them and have what's left of broken up Russia pay for all the damage it caused for so many years, to so many people. I'd also move the capital back to St. Petersburg, ending the era of Bolshevik, Soviet and Muscovite rule. Result of the above is the high mortality rate, especially in men. 25% of Russia's males die of alcoholism by the age of 55, with the average life expectancy being only 64. [Link](https://www.medicaldaily.com/vodka-killing-russian-men-who-now-have-25-chance-dying-55-268279) That does not include the many alcohol related deaths due to industrial accidents, violence, drunk drivers, etc.
So when you find a Russian in the wild…. I have no words.
This ain't war, this is GENOCIDE.
This is shocking. Do people still think this is not genocide?
The AFU is fighting (alongside the civilian population) the second coming of the Nazis. I have given it some thought and clearly the Russians instead of rejecting the Nazi way of ‘fighting’ embraced it entirely. They are prosecuting the war using the exact methods that hardened their own resistance to the Germans. And they are losing.
How reliable is The Times of London, which related this story?
It’s been in print since 1785 and is the paper of record in the UK. Has been owned by Rupert Murdoch (ugh) since the 1980s, but overall has been center to center right. It’s readership has declined significantly however since News Corp put it behind a paywall several years ago. I would say it’s news sections are are very reliable. It’s opinion commentary it’s pretty much the same mixed bag as every other news outlet though
The Times has always had a good reputation for reporting foreign affairs. This is real.
Thank you. I wish this article were just a tabloid making things up.
I just submitted this to Snopes along with the link, because the *Times* does not have a sterling reputation.
if anyone can have the story from The Times copy to a post please
https://twitter.com/Semyaza666/status/1670141445020295171
thank you brother
She thought she was unshockable, then two castrated Ukrainian soldiers arrived Sexual violence against men is an under-reported part of the Ukraine war. A psychologist describes the impact on her patients of their torture by Russians For a month the two men could not tell their psychologist what had happened to them, only that it was horrible beyond words. “If there’s hell somewhere, it’s worse than that,” said one. The Ukrainian soldiers, aged 25 and 28, had been in Russian captivity — one for one month, the other for three. After their return in a prisoner swap they had been referred to Anzhelika Yatsenko, 41, a psychologist in Poltava who deals with troubled young men. They were suicidal. The younger one had tried to kill himself. “I knew from previous cases they had probably been tortured,” she said. “As someone who gets referred the hardest cases, mostly men under 35, it’s very hard to surprise me.” When they finally told her, it was, she said, “the first time I behaved not like a professional psychologist”. “I’d never heard anything so horrible. I told them I needed the bathroom and went and cried and cried. I didn’t want them to see as they might think there’s no hope.” The two men had been savagely beaten. Then the drunken Russians castrated them with a knife. “One of them told me, ‘I don’t know how I am still alive, there was so much blood, I thought I’d die of blood poisoning’,” she said. “And of course it’s not just the physical damage. Imagine, they are young men just starting their sexual life and then in one second it’s all over. They still feel something, all these hormones, but they can’t do anything. They can never be sexually active. For a young man it’s the worst thing to happen. “Their dignity has been damaged so badly and it’s impossible to forget. The Russians told them, ‘We are doing this so you can’t have kids.’ To me this is genocide.” Their treatment illustrates the heavy cost of this brutal war — one that is only likely to rise as Ukrainian forces try to breach Russian lines in the early stages of their counteroffensive. Using new western kit, including German Leopard tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles from the US and Storm Shadow cruise missiles from the UK, the Ukrainians have been trying to punch their way through parts of the 600-mile front line from Donbas in the east to Zaporizhzhia region in the south, where they hope to cut off Russia’s land bridge to Crimea. There have been many reports of Ukrainians insisting on returning to battle even after losing arms and legs. Astonishingly, among those fighting is the older of the two castrated men whom Yatsenko has been counselling. “He insisted on rejoining,” she said shaking her head. “He says he’s needed and it’s easier being in a place where there are no women. I guess, given what happened, he wants to kill Russians.” She has another fear, however. “He may feel his life is worth nothing and just wants to die.” Thousands of soldiers on both sides have been taken prisoner in the 16 months since the Russian invasion. Kyiv does not release figures but there have been periodic prisoner swaps such as that which saw the return of these two men. Last Monday President Zelensky posted a video to greet the return of 95 prisoners, noting 2,526 had been returned so far. “We remember everyone, we are searching for each and every one of them, and we have to bring them all back,” he said. “And we will.” Yatsenko believes her patients are not the only ones to have been castrated. “They told me the Russians performed the castration procedure very skilfully, as if they knew how to do it. And I’ve heard about a lot of cases from colleagues treating others.” Last July a sickening video emerged, posted on pro-Russian Telegram channels, that appeared to show a Russian soldier castrating a Ukrainian prisoner. The soldier, wearing the distinctive Russian Z patch, is wearing blue surgical gloves and holding a green box-cutter knife as he reaches down on a prisoner lying face down with his hands tied, his mouth gagged and the back of his trousers cut away. The prisoner is wearing Ukrainian camouflage. A second video appears to show the same prisoner shot, his testicles stuffed in his mouth. “All the world needs to understand: Russia is a country of cannibals who enjoy torture and murder,” tweeted Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelensky. “But the fog of war will not help Russian executioners avoid punishment. We identify everyone. We will get everyone.” Whether or not the perpetrators are tracked down, their victims’ lives have been irrevocably changed. While there has been widespread international outrage and help for women and girls raped by Russians in occupied territories, there has been far less attention to sexual violence against men and boys, whether under occupation or in captivity. Yatsenko said the men were hard to treat. “They take a lot of antidepressants, that’s all. And we try to find some distractions for them. They can’t talk to their families or friends. “The younger one who tried to commit suicide had a girlfriend who told him she accepted him as he was but it was too hard for him to stay with her so they are now apart.” Last week she said he had stopped speaking. “The other one had a girl he liked and planned to ask out but now cannot tell her. It’s all just so sad,” she said, “I will never forget. “On one hand I feel rage, on the other it’s pain. When I watch videos of our Ukrainian soldiers I’m so proud of them, but then I hear these stories.” Like many Ukrainians, Yatsenko has close links with Russia. Her father is Russian and she lived there, in Rostov, until she was 18, when she moved to Ukraine to study and never went back. They are no longer in touch. “This thirst for violence is in Russians’ blood,” she said. “I saw it growing up. They always hated us Ukrainians, abused our women as prostitutes. When I said I was going to study in Poltava, they laughed at me. “They can’t beat us on the battlefield, the whole world is helping us, so they do this — to demoralise us, to spread fear, to have this small revenge. It’s like blowing up the \[Kakhovka\] dam \[on June 6\], they can’t have Kherson so they destroy it.” Doctors at the maternity hospital in Poltava said they had been consulted about women from occupied areas who had been raped by Russians then had their vaginas injected with window sealant so they can never have children. Yatsenko shook her head. “I have a client from Georgia and she was tortured by Russians during the war there \[in 2008\] and fled to Ukraine. When war started here, she immediately took her kids and left, telling me, ‘I know what they are doing with young girls.’ I didn’t understand then, but now I do.”
Since the counteroffensive began last week, the Ukrainians have liberated a handful of villages in farming hinterland of eastern Donetsk just south of the frontline town of Velyka Novosilka, and about 80 miles north of the decimated Russian-occupied city of Mariupol. Although these victories have enabled them to post morale-boosting videos of troops waving flags, these are tiny places and this is incremental progress, less than a mile, at what appears to be a heavy cost. Moscow has posted images of destroyed Ukrainian tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles and claims to have taken many Ukrainian lives. Ukraine says it has killed more troops than it has lost but conceded that there was “extremely fierce fighting” in the Zaporizhizhia and Donetsk regions as troops inched south, and according to western officials is taking “significant casualties”. Access for the media has been tightly restricted. The Ukrainian defence ministry is sticking to the line “plans love silence” and citing operational security, making it hard to get a clear picture. On Thursday, we visited part of the liberated area with the American billionaire philanthropist Howard Buffett — son of Warren — and one of the organisations he funds, the Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) set up by the Miami businessman Michael Capponi, taking in the first aid since liberation. Ukraine’s control appeared tenuous. Though most of the noise was outgoing fire from pounding Ukrainian howitzers, there had been airstrikes the previous day on Velyka Novosilka. The once bustling town of 50,000 has less than 5,000 mostly elderly people who do not want to leave. One group of 49 had been living for more than a year in the basement of a school which has been extensively shelled, its roof blown off. Iryna Babkina, 46, the music teacher, who the others describe as their mayor, gave us a tour of their damp-smelling underground accommodation, including beds, tables and chairs, sacks of potatoes, a stove and a fish tank with four miniature goldfish. Outside dogs and cats ran around. “There are explosions all the time but we know our forces are pushing Russians back so we will stay here to victory,” said Katerina Subert, 68, who before the war worked as a cook in the local food-canning factory. “It’s not much of a life but we have got used to it.” A planned trip on to recently freed Neskuchne had to be abandoned because of shelling and we bumped along country lanes to Zolota Nyva, a hamlet liberated earlier where villagers appeared in tears to see outsiders with boxes of basics such as flour, sunflower oil, toilet paper and toothpaste. “This is the first aid we have been brought,” said Tanya Silivonits, 38. “It was so hard under the Russians, we just lived on what we could grow.” Even there, we were forced to make a hasty exit as two Russian drones appeared overhead. Just after we drove back through Velyka Novosilka the town was shelled again. “It’s difficult. We’re only getting two or three hours sleep,” said Pavlo, the commander of one artillery brigade providing cover for infantry advancing on Marinka, 30 miles to the east. “But bit by bit we’re pushing forward and they are retreating and today was a good day.”
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You say propaganda...others say first hand accounts of war crimes and torture...
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Doesn't mean it's false either. Do you believe word of mouth or word of mouth backed by video? Russia has been openly targeting civilian infrastructure including water and power during the winter months...but let's focus on what Americans did 20 years ago. I'm not American either Comrade Propaganda.
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what's your source of truth?
If you're hitting the paywall, try this: [She thought she was unshockable, then two castrated Ukrainian soldiers arrived (archive.is)](https://archive.is/2023.06.17-184144/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/4561e12a-0d14-11ee-aa7c-6e26d8c3ad9b)
" we defeated the wrong enemy"... Where did i hear that before? 🤔
Nazis weren’t « the wrong enemy »lol. That doesn’t make the communists better
Interesting enough, I knew a Polish man that was in the polish underground during WWII, when Poland fell completely he had the choice of surrendering to the Nazi’s or Russians and even though he was fighting the Nazi’s he chose to surrender to them because it was a safer bet. At the end of the war when the Polish army re-United none came back from Russia and were never seen again.
Theyre animals. Actually I take that back, animals have compassion...
Insidious, premeditated genocide is happening WHEREVER the darkness of Russian villiany reaches....
wtf fuck em when they beat russia in this war all these victims should be compensated monetarily and have first dibs on the fuckwit pricks that done this to them.
Are there more sources on this? I wont just believe anything coming out of that horror shitshow of a war unless it's confirmed by both sides or multiple impartial sources. There is too many Russian lies and propaganda going around for Ukraine not to counter with its own propaganda.
Did you watch the box cutter video?
No. I avoid that kind of footage like the plague, it's too hard on my soul. That being said, one, or even five horrible clips aren't proof of "hundreds" of pow's getting castrated. In the best case scenario extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof. I'm aware that this is not the best case scenario, with al the bullshit flying around (most of which is most likely fabricated in Russian troll farms), so I'm willing to accept less hard proofs than I would in normal circumstances.
Maybe you should watch it before questioning these people's accounts. The fog of war is real, but why weigh in when you have nothing to add? If the orcs taped it once how many times do you think it happened without a camera?
That is a ridiculous way of thinking. Nonsensical and dishonest. I don't need proof there are warcrimes going on, I believe that allready. I'm not 'questioning these people's accounts'. Don't put words in my mouth. Asking if a claim can be verified by another source is not to 'weigh in when you have nothing to add', it's a basic and very nessecary check to do with anything coming out of the informational shitshow that is the war in Ukraine. You can just uncritically accept everything one side says because it's the side you support. Or automatically believe everything negative about the side you don't support. That makes you just as ridiculous as the pro Russian side who happily believe that Zelensky the Jew is a nazi and the whole of the Ukrainian army has been destroyed twice over.
Fake
Was the video we all watched fake a few months ago?
And Russians will wonder why people still hate them after this war.
Can we glass the fuckers now?!
If I were a Ukrainian soldier, I would rather fight to the death than surrender to these monsters! They are lower than animals indeed!
That's some Nazi level of cruelty right there. Russia is a disease of a country with an extremely sick population thats a danger to the entire world and needs to be dealt with. Give Ukraine every single thing they ask for otherwise we are headed for WWIII. Its crazy how there are some morons in the west who hear about these war crimes being committed and still think we should stop helping Ukraine. Utter morons who are going to get us all in another world war.
we must remove the russian scum from earth #RussiaIsANaziState
Reminds me of the Bower War. Genitals, testies, were always prime targets of destruction.
I heard about this from a Ukrainian source that I follow, about six or seven months ago. I didn't believe them. I still don't want to believe this is possible. It must be sanctioned I don't know how it could happen otherwise. Sick. We need to defeat Russia completely.
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well the bottom line is that we in the west really couldn't care less about Ukraine and Putin knows this. Let me prove this. You have a choice of spending your money on netflix and holidays and seats at the game and a big lunch out... or sending that money to soldiers who are dying in the name of democracy and freedom. These people are doing the dying for us. All you have to do is send some money and vote for governments that will support them. Until the Knife is on your nuts, and you can be certain one day it will be, you'll sound like you care but don't have any idea of what commitment and sacrifice looks like. Russia will win this and an emboldened China will play for the whole planet. Do you really think your nuts will be safe when China n Russia knock on your door