Russian commanders were said to have been using “Storm-Z” troops as cannon fodder.
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He said he had given medical treatment to a group of six or seven wounded “Storm-Z” fighters on the battlefield, disobeying an order from a commander to ditch the injured, which he said was in line with the officers’ general attitude towards punishment squad members.A screenshot from a video shared on June 28 shows fighters from a “Storm-Z” squad explaining they will no longer fight in Ukraine, in protest at treatment by their commanders.
The “Storm-Z” squads are useful because they can be deployed as expendable cannon fodder, according to Conflict Intelligence Team, an independent organization that’s tracking the war.Russian defense ministry reportedly has been recruiting convicts to join “Storm-Z” units in exchange for a promise that they would be given a pardon.“The Storm fighters are just sent to the most dangerous parts of the front, in defense and in attack,” the group told Reuters.
Artyom Shchikin, a 29-year-old from the Mordovia region in central Russia, was serving a two-year sentence for robbery, when military recruiters came to his prison asking if inmates wanted to go and fight in Ukraine, according to court records and two of his relatives.
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