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Left For Dead — 90 Percent of Russian Combat Deaths are From Non-Fatal Injuries
Shocking first and second-hand accounts from Russian soldiers and families have surfaced on social media showing that even a minor wound is a death sentence.
Russian insiders have indicated that a significant percentage (seventy to ninety percent) of Russian combat deaths arise from bleeding rather than immediately fatal injuries.
Recent reporting by Vot Tak sheds light on the grave challenges facing injured Russian troops in Ukraine’s conflict zones.
Russian translation of quotes by me with my rusty Russian. Any errors are mine alone.
A woman, whose brother from Irkutsk was severely injured in March 2023, shared, “He was fortunate that a fellow soldier helped him out; it’s not common. More often, they’re left behind, and all are marked as missing, whether injured or dead. He described a field littered with fallen soldiers. It was harrowing to hear him recount walking over the still-warm bodies.”
Lieutenant Andrei Kravchenko, who was injured during a firefight at Pervomaiske in February 2023, mentions the self-organized evacuations in his unit.
“Whether under relentless enemy artillery or during a brief respite, a van would hastily approach to retrieve the injured. In situations like…
