The Russian military is sending wounded soldiers to death to determine the location of Ukrainian snipers, officials have said, and Vladimir Putin’s generals are forcing men on crutches onto the battlefield as part of their callous “meat attacks” .
Heartbreaking footage captured by a drowned Ukrainian reconnaissance man shows him picking off limping soldiers one by one as they cross an empty field.
The incapacitated soldiers head towards Ukrainian positions, but are easily pursued by the grenade-launching drone.
The video was shared by Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council, on his Telegram.
“The Russians use these disabled people to try to detect the firing positions of the Defense Forces, and there are also cases where the wounded have already been discharged, but survived, so they are assigned these latter tasks,” Kovalenko wrote.
Helpless soldiers often make up the first wave of Putin’s “meat attacks”: they lead the advance so that the fitter troops behind them can identify approaching threats.
Throughout the war, the Ukrainian military has reported capturing dozens of Russians already suffering from serious injuries sustained in previous attacks.
“Crippled regiments” of soldiers, who have typically received little medical care before being sent into battle, are brought back into battle by their commanders as they attempt to keep up the pace of the assaults even as the number of dead and wounded rises.
A Russian soldier crawls away from the spot where a drone dropped a grenade

The soldiers are seen limping across a barren field near the front line, apparently towards Ukrainian positions.

A drone drops a grenade on a Russian infantryman as he limps through a field

Russian soldier’s body lies helpless after drone dropped grenade on him
The so-called “meat grinder” units are composed of both maimed prisoners and freed prisoners, with the first wave often protecting the soldiers behind them in an effort to overwhelm Ukrainian defenses and make incremental gains.
While the tactic has proven effective in advancing the Russian front line, with Moscow’s forces gaining ground in eastern Ukraine and Kursk over the past year, it has also resulted in huge manpower losses.
Russian forces suffered their biggest losses since the start of the full-scale war last year, with approximately 150,000 combat deaths during 2024, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said yesterday.
“In this year of fighting, (Russian President Vladimir Putin) lost more than in the previous two years of the war (combined),” he told Ukrainian media TSN.
It comes after reports that North Korean soldiers sent to fight alongside the Russians are being used as “human mine detectors” on the front lines of the Ukraine invasion.
Some 12,000 North Korean soldiers have been sent to fight alongside Vladimir Putin’s beleaguered forces in Ukraine.
But Lieutenant Colonel ‘Leopard’ of Ukraine’s 33rd Separate Assault Battalion ‘Big Cats’ revealed that their lives are worth little to their superiors.

Images shared by Euromaidan Press show what appear to be Russian soldiers hiding in ditches and under trees while being pursued by Ukrainian drones.
He told the Times: ‘The North Koreans have a “meat grinder” strategy. When Ukrainians use a mine clearance vehicle, they simply use people.
‘They simply walk in single file, three or four meters away from each other, if one explodes, the doctors go behind to collect the dead, the crowd continues one after another. This is how they cross minefields.
Leopard said soldiers sent by Kim Jong Un often refuse to be captured alive, preferring to die in battle or simply flee. Either way, he said, his commanders are apparently unfazed.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), which has been following developments on the front lines of the Ukraine invasion since it began in February 2022, said in an assessment on January 16 that “the entirety of this North Korean contingent in the Kursk Oblast “They can be killed or injured in about 12 weeks.”
In early January, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that 3,800 North Korean soldiers had been killed or wounded in Kursk so far.

The images appear to show the bodies of Russian soldiers who tried to take refuge in the frozen wasteland of Kursk.
Fighting has intensified in the Russian region in recent weeks after part of it was first captured by kyiv forces in August.
It has been defended by Ukraine ever since, with Vladimir Putin sending wave after wave of troops to die as “cannon fodder.”
Ukrainian machine gunners are reportedly so exhausted by the rate at which they have been killing their enemies that they are being replaced periodically.
One soldier compared the attack to the bloody sieges of eastern Ukrainian cities like Bakhmut, saying that “after two hours (the weapons operators) couldn’t take it anymore.”
“Here, the Russians need to take this territory at any cost and they are putting all their forces into it, while we are giving everything we have to hold it,” said Sergeant Oleksandr, 46, a Ukrainian infantry platoon leader. , to the New York Times. Times.
“We are holding on, destroying, destroying, destroying… so much it’s hard to even comprehend.”