without any medical treatment or admission to hospitals, Chris O reports.

Their superiors are unsympathetic: "Fuck you and your fucking splinters! Don't fucking piss me off! I'll fucking kill you!"⬇️

2/ ASTRA reports on the experience of soldiers from several regiments based in the Nizhny Novgorod region. According to Alexander, a Storm V member who is receiving treatment for shrapnel wounds and blast injuries, commanders have issued an order banning sick leave.

3/ "On Friday, a guy from my company was discharged, I told him, go to the unit and find out. He arrived, and he was sent to the Luhansk region to go to the ribbon [the front line]. He’s not combat-ready."

4/ "Everyone’s ears are torn, there is shrapnel in their arms and legs, no one gets anything [treated]. People with fractures went [back to Ukraine]."

A leaked order dated 7 June 2024 shows instructions on how the 'special contingent' (Storm V) are to be treated:

5/ "[You are to] Prohibit the sending of personnel from the special contingent to points of permanent deployment, hospitals (with the exception of the front-line zone), as well as on sick leave."

6/ According to Alexander, although the order only names the 'special contingent', "now even ordinary contract soldiers are in this pile."

7/ "They even send you with plaster[ed limbs]. They say you will undergo rehabilitation in the [Luhansk People's Republic] What kind of rehabilitation can there be if there are constant [missile] arrivals there?"

8/ ASTRA has also published an audio recording - link in the COMMENT under the POST - provided by Alexander of a conversation between wounded men and a starshina (equivalent to a sergeant-major) representing the military command. The discussion highlights the tensions between the men and their commanders.

9/ The men complain that "They say we are nobody and there is no way to call us." One man complains, "I received a head wound, I have about 13 fragments in my head and body, in my hands. Here I am forbidden to go to the hospital, I am forbidden to go to the clinic ...

10/ I need treatment, because I am covered in fragments."

The conversation doesn't go well. In the end, the starshina accuses the man of alcoholism and declares: "Shut the fuck up! Fuck you and your fucking splinters! Don't fucking piss me off! I'll fucking kill you!" /end

Source: ASTRA - an independent Russian media outlet created by the former RTVI journalist Anastasia Chumakova - she invited media personnel who had been prosecuted for their professional activities. It is neither regular nor registered etc - it functions more like a social media outlet.

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