Kremlin Threatens To Send Russian Troops To 'Meat Grinder' Unless They Do 1 Thing, UK Says
Vladimir Putin continues to force his soldiers forwards on Ukraine's frontline despite early peace talks.
Moscow is threatening to put mobilised Russian soldiers into the âmeat grinderâ unless they sign military contracts, intelligence officers claim.
The UKâs ministry of defence (MoD) has reported that Vladimir Putinâs officials are trying to force anyone mobilised in September 2022 to commit to extended service.
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The alarming report comes as the US continues to push for a peace deal to end Russiaâs illegal invasion of Ukraine, by seemingly giving in to Moscowâs demands.
US president Donald Trump has also falsely accused Volodymyr Zelenskyy of starting the war, being a âdictatorâ and claimed he is deeply unpopular with the general public â despite having an approval rating above 50%.
Meanwhile, Trump has claimed he âtrustsâ Putin also wants peace, and they both âbelieve very stronglyâ in common sense.
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But the MoDâs latest update casts a bleak new light on conditions within Russia amid Putinâs ongoing focus on the war.
It repeats the reports from the independent Russian outlet Verstka that claim Russian military commanders are âforcingâ men mobilised in 2022 to sign contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defence.
The MoD claimed: âWhilst contracts given to Russian soldiers are said to have formal end dates, they can reportedly run indefinitely, with those who refuse to sign threatened with being sent into âmeat grinderâ assaults with survival rates as low as 10-15 per cent.â
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It continued: âRussian efforts to coerce mobilised soldiers to sign indefinite contracts are highly likely motivated in part by a lack of experienced soldiers, with Russia having sustained approximately 860,000 killed and wounded since invading Ukraine in 2022.
âThis has severely depleted the number of Russian personnel with more than rudimentary levels of training.
âRussiaâs leadership also almost certainly perceives such measures as reducing the potential requirement for further domestically unpopular mobilisations.â
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Hundreds of thousands of Russians left after Putin announced the partial mobilisation of 300,000 reservists, triggering a âbrain drainâ across the country.
âThis has substantially contributed to long-term difficulties for Russiaâs labour market,â the MoD said.
Russian troops already hold around a fifth of Ukraineâs land, and are still managing to make small pushes forward to take more territory â but theyâre taking heavy losses in the process.
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These claims come after the MoDâs previous reports alleged Russia was strengthening penalties for breaching the law on anyone in contact with so-called âforeign agentsâ.
Moscowâs law defines âforeign agentsâ as any individual or organisation who receives financial support from abroad â and applies to independent Russian news outlets and human rights organisations.
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The legislation has been repeatedly expanded since Putinâs 2022 invasion.
âThis continues a wider trend of increasing domestic repression since Putin returned to the presidency in 2012, which has dramatically accelerated since the invasion of Ukraine,â the MoD wrote.
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