13/ "There's no fucking food or drink here. We're just chewing apples. Before, I was eating bark. Holy shit, the supplies are crappy here." He made it to the safety of a position held by the 24th Brigade, but found that his own unit had listed him as missing.
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Soldier recounts injuries after retreat
11/ Although he survived, he was badly injured: "After that, when I rolled back [retreated], I had significant injuries, three shrapnel wounds, and a sprained leg. In general, I couldn't get back any faster, so I crawled somewhere.
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Survivor of unsupported attack denounces unit abandonment
10/ "They say they can't fly there, although the allies [neighbouring units] can. After that, they do everything to ensure that these groups don't survive. They sent us to storm, I survived, I was the only one." Dulyaninov says that his unit had to attack without fire support.
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Commander Refuses to Execute His Men Before Assault
5/ Before launching an assault, his commanders ordered him to execute five of his own men (he does not explain the reasons for this) but he refused to go through with it: "They asked me to zero out my own people before the assault, people like me who came after the assault."
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Russian commander details unit abuses, reckless leadership, and soldier losses.
3/ Dulyaninov has given a detailed account of the abuses in his unit, which reflect many similar accounts across the Russian army. He says that he is the commander of an assault platoon, but "I've lost many soldiers due to the reckless commanders, the rush and all that."
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Soldier’s videos released by aunt to pressure commanders, Russian authorities
2/ Vladimir Valerievich Dulyaninov, serving in the 6th Guards Tank Regiment (military unit 93992), has recorded a series of videos which his aunt has released in an apparent effort to pressure the Russian authorities to take action against the regiment's commanders. pic.twitter.com/3CQe3ljByy
— ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) 16 novembre 20252/ Vladimir Valerievich Dulyaninov, serving in the 6th Guards Tank Regiment (military unit 93992), has recorded a series of videos which his aunt has released in an apparent effort to pressure the Russian authorities to take action against the regiment's commanders.
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Russian soldiers near Pokrovsk eat bark, face commander abuse and death
1/ Russian soldiers fighting near Pokrovsk say they are eating bark to avoid starvation, while they face systematic extortion, embezzlement, and violence from their commanders, who send numerous men to their deaths and routinely execute others who are deemed inconvenient. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/IwqkMWNRO5
— ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) 16 novembre 20251/ Russian soldiers fighting near Pokrovsk say they are eating bark to avoid starvation, while they face systematic extortion, embezzlement, and violence from their commanders, who send numerous men to their deaths and routinely execute others who are deemed inconvenient.
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Sunday Morning in Kostiantynivka: Daily Hell
Sunday morning in Kostiantynivka is hell — just like every other day of the week.
— EMPR.media (@EuromaidanPR) 16 novembre 2025
Remember that the next time you sit down with your morning coffee. pic.twitter.com/E5mropqe1hSunday morning in Kostiantynivka is hell — just like every other day of the week. Remember that the next time you sit down with your morning coffee.
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73-year-old Kyiv woman dies in Russian strike
Nataliia Khodemchuk, 73, died from burns in a Russian strike on Kyiv. Her husband, Valerii, was the first to die at Chornobyl in 1986. His body remains under Reactor 4. She fled Prypiat & lived in Kyiv in a building for Chornobyl liquidators. Her neighbor: Oleksii Ananenko, Hero
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Novorossiysk oil port halts exports after drone attack
Novorossiysk oil port halts exports after Ukrainian drone attack damages infrastructure