Russian Military, “Continuous Defection”, Rebellion against Putin

1: Drop your weapon; 2: Stand erect and immobile; 3: Raise your hands or a white flag and say, “I surrender!” 4: The word “million” is uttered as a code word for surrender.

This is the procedure for surrender that the Ukrainian Bar Association is appealing to Russian soldiers via the Internet.

It has been a month and a half since the invasion of Ukraine. The Russian troops on the front line do not have enough food and ammunition, and the soldiers are suffering from starvation and are severely exhausted. Some are reportedly killing dogs to stave off hunger. There is a growing pessimistic mood within the military.

Many of the soldiers deployed to Ukraine are young men around 20 years old. Some of them are instructed by their superiors to go to Ukraine for a training exercise. But they were exposed to the horrific reality of war, and some of them have developed mental disorders.

Morale has been falling to the unexpected counterattack of the Ukrainian army. Soldiers may want to return to their homeland as soon as possible. But if they desert, they face up to eight years in prison. There is no end to the number of soldiers who shoot themselves in the leg, hoping to get repatriated to a hospital in their home country.

The commanders are even on the front lines to inspire the soldiers but are targeted by Ukrainian forces. There are reports that seven of the 20 commanders have lost their lives. Itsuro Nakamura, a professor at Tsukuba Gakuin University and an expert on the situation in Russia, said, “The Ukrainian military has been trying to take control of the situation in Ukraine.”

The cause is the poor communications capabilities of the Russian military. Because older radios are not functioning, soldiers are using personal smartphones and cell phones, and their GPS location data is being intercepted, leading to pinpoint attacks from the Ukrainian military.

The price of citizenship is a tank.

The Ukrainian authorities are focusing on these Russian soldiers’ smartphones. Each soldier is given SNS in the “We will treat you properly as prisoners of war. We will provide you with a comfortable environment. They are calling on people to surrender in peace.

The Ukrainian authorities are focusing on these Russian soldiers’ smartphones. We will treat each soldier properly as a prisoner of war,” he said on social networking sites. We will prepare a comfortable environment for you. They are calling on the soldiers to surrender in peace.

It seems that they are communicating with the Russian soldiers in concrete terms. Ukrainian Interior Minister Andrushiv revealed the following episode on Facebook. One Russian soldier demanded $10,000 (about $1.2 million) and citizenship in Ukraine as a condition for surrender. When accepted, he offered the tank he was riding in instead.

According to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, the number of Russian soldiers defecting from the military is rising daily: more than 100 soldiers have formed the “Free Russian Army” and volunteered to become incorporated into the Ukrainian Military. They have turned against President Vladimir Putin.

The Sankei Shimbun dated April 08, reported the following argument between drunken Russian soldiers in Bucha, near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, where the massacre of Ukrainians is said to have taken place.

Ukraine is full of Nazis.

I hate Putin. I don’t want to go to war.”

Many Russian soldiers are no longer willing to fight. Still, does President Putin intend to continue the war?