'No Way Out': Russia Sends Badly Wounded Men Back Into Battle In Ukraine
UK Intelligence says nearly 500,000 Russian soldiers killed since the start of the war.
One had head and chest wounds and lost his left eye and his hearing in both ears. Another was blind in one eye and could see only dim, blurred shapes through the other. A third had broken bones, multiple shrapnel wounds, a ruptured radial nerve, and a "completely useless right arm" that "just hangs there, dangling."
All three Russian men, seriously wounded in the war against Ukraine, were sent back to the front despite their condition, according to relatives, friends, and activists.
As Russia struggles to replace soldiers being killed and wounded in huge numbers in the fifth year of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there is mounting evidence of the military returning men to the war despite severe injuries and, in some cases, medical reports saying they are not fit for further service in combat.
Wounded soldiers have been plucked from homes and hospitals -- or sent back into battle before they have a chance to get away from the war zone, activists say.
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