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“Civilians? We killed them all. If we release them, our location will be revealed, and there will be no food for us anyway.”
“I’m thinking of stealing a TV and taking it with me, would it be an LG or a Samsung? The other kids brought a TV the size of a bed.”
“Taking over Kiiu? Putin is an idiot. There is no way he can do that.”
These are conversations between Russian soldiers at war in Ukraine, talking secretly on the phone with their families, lovers and friends back home.
The Russian army advanced towards the capital Kiiu in the early days of the Ukrainian War, but when faced with resistance and logistical problems from the Ukrainian army, they established a position in the satellite city of Bucha in the northern part of Kiiu and remained there for a few months.
The New York Times reported on the 28th local time on the 28th local time that Russian soldiers at the time made a secret phone call to the commander from the trenches and received thousands of secret calls about their war crimes, disillusionment with the war , and dissatisfaction. with the government..
The soldiers thought they had managed to avoid the eyes of their superiors, but the conversation was being recorded by the Ukrainian intelligence service.
The New York Times said it obtained data from Russian soldiers intercepting calls and cross-checked phone numbers and social media for nearly two months to verify their authenticity.
A soldier named Nikita told his girlfriend, “There are bodies on this street.”
He even spoke on the phone to a friend and said that the soldiers were raiding.
He said, “They steal everything. They found and ate everything they could find, and took all the money. All the soldiers do this,” he said.
Russian soldiers steal goods from a supermarket in Kharkiv, Ukraine
A soldier earnestly asked his girlfriend which LG or Samsung TVs he had found in a home in Ukraine to bring home.
When my boyfriend asked me how I was going to get it, I replied, “I’ll have to think about it,” and then he added, “Other people brought a TV the size of a bed.”
Another soldier said he was driving a Japanese Kawasaki motorcycle and had laughed with the woman over the receiver.
Some soldiers complained to the military authorities that they thought they were going for training, but they were taken to the battlefield in Ukraine.
Soldier Alexei told his girlfriend, “The boss told us we were going to train. These bastards didn’t tell us anything.”
Some soldiers admitted that they were only informed a day before they left for the battlefield.
The soldiers also vented their resentment against President Vladimir Putin and the military commander for sending them to the battlefield without giving them the right equipment.
Ilya asked her boyfriend how Putin was talking about the war, and when he said ‘everything is going according to plan’ she said, “You’re making a big mistake!”
Alexander criticized Putin, saying, “Putin is an idiot. He wants to take Kiiu, but there is no way to do it.”
In a phone call with his mother, Sergei expressed his disillusionment with the war, saying, “Mom, this is the stupidest decision Russia has ever made.”
When someone asked, “Are the soldiers throwing away all their equipment?”, a soldier complained, “Everything used here is out of date.
The New York Times evaluated that the low morale and the lack of equipment revealed in their conversations give an idea of why the Russian military retreated from the Eastern Front recently.
Some of the residents of the town on the border spoke to the soldiers about the arrival of coffins containing the bodies of soldiers one after the other, and the soldiers replied that more coffins would continue to arrive.
The soldiers’ secret calls contain content that occasionally admits to the massacre of civilians that has shocked the world.
Sergei told his girlfriend that he captured civilians, stripped them, and shot and killed them in the forest.
They said that when they let them go, they could hand over their positions to the enemy.
When his girlfriend asked, “Did you shoot people too?” Sergei replied, “Of course you did.”
When asked why they were not taken captive, he replied, “We have to feed them, but we don’t have enough.”
A few weeks after talking to his girlfriend, Sergei told his mother, “I went to the forest near the headquarters and saw a pile of bodies in civilian clothes.
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