Russian conscripts were killed in Luhansk by Ukrainian shelling after their commanders abandoned them.
According to The Guardian, only 130 of the 570 drafted Russians who were in his unit survived the Ukrainian attack.
The men were ripped apart in front of me. He told The Guardian's Russia affairs correspondent that it washell.
A second soldier corroborates Agafonov's account of how many people died that day. He said that two weeks of training didn't prepare him for this.
Russian media outlet Verstka reported that Agafonov's battalion was ordered to dig trenches but only had three shovels. Verstka is an independent news outlet that publishes stories that challenge the narratives of the Kremlin.
The reservists were simply shot when Ukraine bombarded the area on the morning of November 1.
He said that the officers ran away when it started.
The men in Agafonov's unit were drafted as part of Russia's mass Mobilization of 300,000 Reservists in order to reinforce Moscow's forces in Ukraine. Putin said on October 21 that more than 30,000 people had already joined their combat units.
The residents of Agafonov's unit were from the city of Voronezh. The wives of draftees protested the deployment of their husbands in a video message to the governor.
According to Verstka, they asked the Russians to rescue the men and remove them from the frontlines.
They were put on the frontline after arriving. One woman said that the command fled after leaving the battlefield.
She said that their soldiers survived as well as they could. They didn't sleep, they didn't eat, and they didn't flee, unlike their commanders.
According to The Washington Post, reports of the slaughter at Makiivka have turned into a scandal for Russian officials.
Several pro-Russia military correspondents published an open letter from members of the 155th infantry brigade on Sunday. According to the outlet, they claimed that half of their equipment was lost in the first four days of their deployment.
On October 13, a pro-war Russian blogger complained on her Telegram channel about the treatment of the Russian reserve soldiers. Some commanders should be shot. She wrote that officers have no right to wear their rank and epaulettes.
The zinc coffins are on their way. They would not be sent to the front after a week of training. Was it the case that you lied again? The person wrote a letter.
The Russian Telegram channel "War on Fakes" claimed on Sunday that the reports of mass casualties among the Russian reserve soldiers were fake.
According to The New York Times, experts on the Russian armed forces believe that many of Russia's reserve troops will be used as cannon fodder.
Western intelligence says that Russians are arriving at the frontlines with Soviet era weapons. The UK's defense ministry said some troops reached the battlefield with "barely usable rifles".
Russian news outlets reported skyrocketing prices at stores selling military gear and outdoor equipment, as well as a scramble among men to buy basic items that Moscow has failed to provide.
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