Doctor reveals Russian soldiers’ injuries from botched assault

As questions grow over Belarus' role in Russia's war in Ukraine, CNN investigates how several civilian hospitals were used to treat injured Russian soldiers in the early weeks of the conflict. In an exclusive interview, a Belarusian doctor offers new insights into the extent of the Kremlin's casualties, revealing their injuries in X-rays he smuggled out. CNN international correspondent Melissa Bell reports.#cnni #CNN #News

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  1. Ukrainian warriors are fighting for their lives, their wives, their sons, their daughters, their mothers, their fathers, their land, and their freedom.

    Russian “soldiers” have no clue what they’re fighting for. And that’s why Russia is losing.

    Slava Ukraini!!! 🇺🇦 🇺🇲

    1. @DonO okay Russians are going through the same thing…. Russian men are. I will not go and report your comment. I’ve learned that it’s not freedom of speech in USA. You actually want to fight more than I do and that’s the problem

    2. @Natosha Marzucco but but but the Ruzzian Nazzi military men invading Ukraine killing civilians are suffering too. All they have to do is go home, the Ukrainians wish to go back to their peaceful homes. We’ll at least the few that aren’t destroyed 🧐

    3. @DonO no they’re told that it’s a fight between Good and Evil. Whatever I say is censored anyway so it doesn’t matter bye-bye💔

    4. @Natosha Marzucco American freedom of speech doesn’t mean you get to change the Truth or Facts but you can let what ever word vomit ooze out of your hole all you want and I get to call the BS out. I dare you to go say “No to War” in Moscow square and get 15 years prison

    5. @Natosha Marzucco the Russians not having freedom of speech and press but being spoon fed Kremlin propaganda is a devastating crime on the people of Russia. But it does not excuse war crimes.

  2. They are told they are fighting for the survival of their country, in reality they are dying for one man’s ego.

    1. @Don Luego : As soon as Russians found coal they took over the area and called it Russia when it was part of Ukraine. That is the truth. Ukraine were and are defending their land.

    2. @Ольга yeah the ones who don’t gotta fight tucked away in Moscow or St.Petersburg lol and even some of them are against

  3. It’s all well and good giving a conscript a gun and saying “Kill someone”, but that’s the difference between them, and a proper soldier. Conscripts probably WON’T want to kill another person. Therefore 300,000 conscripts won’t be much use, apart from using up Ukrainian bullets!!

    1. I’m sure you don’t knw anything about war..you either kill or get killed..so any person would kill to survive

    2. I think from the Russian Command’s perspective using up Ukrainian bullets IS considered their benchmark of a successful mission.

    3. @Kulio mixed farm I know A LOT about war . I’ve seen The Dirty Dozen loads of times😉 I know even more about humans though, and maybe/ maybe not shooting someone is no good on the battlefield. Conscripts probably won’t kill, or shoot straight….I wouldn’t!!! You’re welcome.

    1. @tsunamis82 I’ve heard of cotton buds and duct tape as blood loss is the no 1 killer from bullet wounds

    2. Their “troops” are conscript cannon fodder. Once they are severely injured they are worthless and not worth the expense of bringing home. They’d only be a burden. Putler doesn’t care about any human life whether Russian or Ukrainian.

  4. I’m Ukrainian and sometimes when I hear about 19-20 y.o.’s that were lied to and sent to Ukraine, I can’t help but feel bad for them for a second. But then I remember that we have our 19-20 y.o.’s who die in this war too. And they, the young Ukrainian soldiers, didn’t invade a smaller neighbouring country. They’re defending our home.

    So I’m all out of empathy for the russians I guess.

    1. @Caroline Matusevich The flag symbolizes the nation. It’s not worshiped, just as the country is not worshiped. Allegiance is not the same as idolatry. Recommend you do more research before making such hyperbolic pronouncements, one should always try to be accurate when speaking publicly, seems to me there’s a commandment on that…

    2. @Shawn Wales yeah totally true and applies for all tragedies that befall a population, the victims of the Holocaust gassed themselves basically because of their political apathy, the Ukrainians in the Holodomor starved themselves too for example, very wise comment.

    3. @Caroline Matusevich That’s very interesting it could be linked. I’ll have to do some research. Thanks for pointing that out.

    4. @Shawn Wales Define allegiance. Then define hyperbolic, as you don’t know the definition of either.

      One serves and gives their loyalty to their country, not to a flag. It doesn’t matter what a flag symbolizes. You lost this debate, sweetie.

  5. Glory to Ukraine glory to the Hero’s may God bring peace soon 🇺🇦🇺🇸🇩🇴❤️☮️🙏

  6. “He’s shown that the Russian military would lose to the Rhode Island National Guard”
    Gaht damn 😂

    1. @GretelH It’s a compliment. He’s saying the 3000 strong RI National Guard could beat Russias army by themselves.

  7. This so sad I don’t have words for it. I am an empathic person, and I really feel for those deceived souls whose fates were sealed by a single megalomaniacal, evil – insert insulting term here- in the kremlin. At the same time I know most of them will die, along with many Ukrainian soldiers and there is nothing I can do about it. So it’s a sad, sad, admission. Killing is never a good thing. NEVER

    1. @Stanley Hache …and the EU is offering $350 billion. They gave Putin that much for oil and gas in a year.

    2. similarly…the greed of the western world have killed millions over centuries, genocide and the eradication of complete cultures and populations

    3. @L Mic I belive you mixed ukrainians and russians, in ukrainian tv chanel a doctor was explaining how they must castrate prisoners and russians civilians. And if my memory serves me corect i remember russians reporting this after the video of shooting prisoners.

  8. There is no chance that Russia would ever stick to any agreement negotiated in the name of peace. It ignored the Budapest Memorandum; the Helsinki Accords; the Minsk Agreement; the principles of the UN, its obligations under the UN Charter, its obligations as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, International Law, the Geneva Convention, the Nuremburg Principles, contract law, ….

    1. @Thembelani Sithole Because there is such a thing as moral equivalency. Part of being a mature and self-reflecting adult, is that you can see nuances in the world and differentiate between concepts. Just because NATO has made mistakes, doesn’t make Putins war crimes any less evil.

    2. @Mikkel Jensen I have never heard NATO saying it made a mistake in all its operations in Africa and Middle East. This side we see those who want to keep others as subjects and others are breaking free

    3. @Francis Cook Look, all the name calling moves no one, the fact is, there is no need for NATO. It is only for putting out those who want freedom from the west. Unfortunately everyone wants freedom nowadays and if you do not believe me, look at what Africa resolved in this conflict, peace talks, and the West is imposing sanctions and send weapons. If we united for peace, this conflict would be over but egos are bruised

    4. @THEMBELANI SITHOLE Don’t be a naive fool. Russia has been involved in the following imperial actions as the Russian Federation: Georgian Civil War, South Ossetian War, War in Abkhazia, Transnistria War, East Prigorodny Conflict, Tajikistani Civil War, First Chechen War, War of Dagestan / Second Chechen War, Russo-Georgian War, Insurgency in the North Caucasus, Russo-Ukrainian War. There were many more as the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire and before. Russia nakedly ignores any and every international law and obligation and is currently the greatest threat to world peace on planet earth. It s shows this by its brutal, ignorant, unjustified attacks on other nations. OF COURSE NATO IS NECESSARY. Why do you think Sweden and Finland, after decades of Russian-coerced neutrality (at least for Finland) have decided to join NATO?

    1. didn’t you see what the footage said? they sent like 30 wounded the first day, and then 90 more the day after.

      they had tens of thousands of fighters in the northern regions of ukraine when they invaded, and they got destroyed pretty badly. really think that out of such a large force, only 30 and 90 got wounded, or that they had millions of other nearby hospitals to pick from in order to explain such tiny numbers?

      nah.. thousands got left behind to die. classic soviet tactics and mentality.

  9. I was an interrogator in Vietnam. I had to question many Viet Cong and NVA prisoners in US Army hospitals. Similar injuries as in this report. Many of the prisoners were barely alive. Over all, most of them were 17 to19 years old. Almost all were forced into the war, the Viet Cong often with death threats, the NVA deluded by propaganda or conscripted. The ends justifies the means = young men subjected to horrors, maimed, and killed

    1. @Sancho technically the north Vietnamese were attacking the south. It was more of a civil war to certain extent

  10. 1. “If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive;
    and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless”.

    2. “Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.”

    3.  “If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.”

    Quote by – Sun Tzu The art of war

    Putin didn’t treat his soldiers well and he will fail. This third quote will be his downfall

  11. They didn’t just leave the most wounded on the battlefield – the Russian commanders were shooting the injured as they walked down the line of injured. Many others were simply left to die where they had fallen.

    1. It’s hard to believe an army like Russia’s ever believed they could invade anybody. This demonic bunch of gangsters is damn near medieval.

  12. Not only do they use false flags. They attack what matters most. Heartbreaking and re-traumatizing for religious farmer Holocaust survivors to hear insults implying that they are all of the things that have harmed them.

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