12/ "If he were a human being, he could stay here as long as he liked, but he ate a corpse, human meat. I am a Muslim. I don’t want someone like that coming into my shelter."
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Russian Soldier Reports Sharing Dugout With Cannibal Near Bakhmut
11/ Fragments of other conversations also discuss incidents of cannibalism. A Muslim soldier from the 54th Motorised Rifle Regiment complained in a 3 April 2025 conversation that he was having to share a dugout near Bakhmut with a cannibal, which he considered to be haram:
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Russian Officer Admits Troops on Starvation Rations at Front
10/ Lt Abdulkhalykovych replies: "Are they not being fed or what? I don’t understand." The officer responds: "Ours will also soon start eating each other … All the guys are skinny. Everyone is on starvation rations.”
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Suspect Found Dismembering and Consuming Victim in Basement
8/ “In the end, today they went and found the place where he had taken [the victims] to the basement, cut off a leg and was already, through a meat grinder or something, sitting there, turning it, trying to eat it…
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Man Found Grinding Human Leg Killed in Shootout
7/ Two other men went looking for Khromoy, who had gone missing, and found him in a basement trying to mince a leg in a meat grinder. They killed him in an exchange of fire:
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Soldier Kills Two Allies and Attempts Cannibalism
6/ Along with the picture, the officer sent a verbal report of an "incident": "In short, one ally killed two others and he tried … he cut off a leg and was already trying to eat one of them."
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Russian Officer Sent Cannibalism Evidence to 5th Brigade Recon Deputy Commander
5/ The unnamed officer sent pictures of a partly consumed leg to Lt Razikov Vladislav Abdulkhalykovych, the deputy commander of the 5th Brigade’s reconnaissance battalion, along with pictures of a dead malnourished soldier – presumably 'Khromoy'.
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Russian Soldier Allegedly Killed and Cannibalized Comrade in Unit
4/ One of the incidents involved a soldier with the call sign 'Khromoy' (roughly 'Limpy'), from the 95th Regiment of the 5th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, 51st Guards Combined Arms Army. An officer reported he was caught after killing two soldiers and eating one of them.
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Ukrainian Intel: Russian Soldiers Allegedly Engaged in Cannibalism
2/ The UK's Sunday Times newspaper has published evidence of what Ukrainian intelligence sources say were at least five instances where Russian soldiers were said by their fellow soldiers and commanders to have engaged in cannibalism.
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Russian Soldiers Allegedly Committed Cannibalism in Ukraine in 2025
1/ Starving Russian soldiers in Ukraine have been eating their comrades and Ukrainians, according to intercepted Russian communications. Audio and photographic evidence indicates that several incidents of cannibalism likely occured in 2025. ⬇️https://t.co/ibM2BdEAeI
— ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) 27 avril 20261/ Starving Russian soldiers in Ukraine have been eating their comrades and Ukrainians, according to intercepted Russian communications. Audio and photographic evidence indicates that several incidents of cannibalism likely occured in 2025.