"I wanted to share a favorite phrase of one of our commanders: 'If you don’t have 200 [fatalities] today, your 300 [wounded] were not enough.' This also reflects the command’s attitude toward our mobilized troops."

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22/ She also complains about the attitude of the commanders, who she characterises as almost sadistically indifferent about the lives of their men. If nobody is killed during an operation, she says, the men are regarded as having failed or slacked off.

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18/ Many men are not being treated for injuries and concussions. "Every conscript must have a legal right to treatment. And even if they are treated in hospitals after being wounded, after a shell shock, these rights are violated right and left."

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19/ The men who do get leave after six months on the front line only get to spend two weeks at home, during which time "they can’t even run to hospitals to patch themselves up … They can't even recover."

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17/ "They have the opportunity to go on rotations to rear areas, conduct special operations, to rear areas. But you get a line 100 meters from the enemy, and here a line 800 meters from the enemy. So you sat there for a week, went here for three days, thus you had a rotation."

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16/ The men are supposed to be given the opportunity to go on rotations to rear areas for rest, but in practice, the relative says, this is largely fictional: rather than going to the rear, they merely go to a trench a few hundred meters further back.

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14/ "And so they fight and fight for themselves, and everyone is happy with it. It feels like the whole country has simply sat on our boys’ shoulders and is sitting there, forcing you to take them, well, take them, let’s see how long you can get out."

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15/ The relative says that the men call themselves "gladiators" now. "It's a good comparison. As soon as the indefinite stay of those mobilised became clear, so to speak, and it became like slavery for them, this is exactly how we perceive it."

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13/ The lack of any replacements is a key problem: the men are fighting until they are either dead or too injured to continue. "There are fewer and fewer of them, there are more and more wounded, no one is replenishing them, no one is going to somehow strengthen them further."

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8/ Military-medical commissions are ignoring the findings of civilian health clinics. The commanders are drinking. The mobilized are being sent into "meat assaults."

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