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1/ A military doctor who has deserted from the Russian army says she was forced to be a commander's 'field wife', had to rate crippled men as fit, saw 'undesirable' soldiers being shot by their officers, and others being "sold for slaughter" for their commanders' profit.
2/ A female military doctor serving in the 19th Tank Regiment (military unit 12322) recorded a video about what she saw and experienced since joining the unit in June 2023. There are around 40,000 women in the Russian armed forces, mostly in medical roles.
3/ After signing a contract, she says she ended up after training "in Totskoye, Orenburg region – under the regiment commander Evgeniy Borisovich Ladnov, to the very commander who is called the 'butcher commander', the 'killer commander'".
4/ To become an officer, she was told she had to become the 'field wife' of the commander. Field wives are a World War 2 Russian army custom that has been revived in the Ukraine war, often as a form of sexual abuse of female soldiers.
5/ The woman served with the 19th Tank Regiment's medical unit. She was told that she had to rate as fit injured soldiers who could no longer fight due to health reasons:
6/ "I had to sit in the medical unit and write ‘fit’ to those who couldn’t fight ... because he simply does not have an arm, leg, prosthetic eye, and so on. That is, I had to send my guys to the slaughter, just give them a one-way ticket."
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Conscripts serving with the unit "were forced to sign a contract [to become professional soldiers] by force. And they were sent on board. And they took away their phones. In my presence, three guys were sent like that. Unfortunately, no one else saw them."
8/ Soldiers who had been drinking were punished by being sent on assault missions. Being assigned to stormtrooper units is a common punishment for disciplinary infractions and frequently leads to death or serious injury, as their life expectancy is not high.
9/ She says that those punished this way included women, one of whom worked with the doctor. Female stormtroopers have occasionally been seen trying to assault Ukrainian positions. It's possible they were sent there as a punishment.
10/ The doctor says that her commanders were running money-making scams with the dead and wounded, leaving the latter to die on the battlefield.
"I saw documents in the office of [callsign] “Tobol”, the chief of staff, about, God forgive me, how much each serviceman costs."
11/ "That is, the guys were simply sold, like football players were sold, simply for slaughter...
They were live goods for good fat money for the command.
12/ "The guys who were listed as killed, were transferred to the list of missing in action, so as not to pay money to their relatives. The money [from their salaries?] was distributed among [the commander's] henchmen.
13/ "In addition to this, they did not take the wounded from the battlefield. They rotted and died there, in order not to pay [compensation] for the wounds. Again, for the wounded guys, they listed them as missing in action.
14/ "And the money was distributed between the commander, between Ladnov and, again, his henchmen."
15/ She says that the commander "simply disposed of ... unwanted servicemen. They filmed accounts, threw grenades in the dugout. The regiment commander shot them with his own hands. His henchmen shot them."
16/ Ladnov was reportedly killed by a Ukrainian drone in November 2024. The doctor says that it is "good that he is in hell, the devils are probably roasting him well." However, she says that his successor is just as bad, explaining why she felt she had to desert.
17/ She is currently on the wanted list due to her desertion, but says she won't go back. "[If] they will return me to the unit, I will find a Kalashnikov and a neighbour and put a bullet between my eyes." /end
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