“A f_cked-up soldier will be sent to you”_ Russian commanders maimed soldiers to prevent desertion

We caught a ba*tard near Mariupol. Soon you will receive a soldier with broken legs
-He almost reached Mariupol. He thought they wouldn't be able to catch him.
_ Soon, a f*cked-up soldier will be sent to you... lying around like bait for the Ukrainians
This is how all those who desert their comrades in battle will be treated). Bu səsələnin fikirlərin ingilscə versiyasıdır

The Russian military maimed a soldier to prevent him from fleeing the battlefield, according to an alleged intercepted phone call released by Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR).
The interception comes amid mounting evidence that Russian forces are struggling with desertion.
In the recording, a Russian soldier is heard describing in detail the punishment of a serviceman who was captured near occupied Mariupol in eastern Ukraine after attempting to flee.
"We caught a ba*tard near Mariupol. Soon you will receive a soldier with broken legs," the interlocutor said, adding the man would arrive with "broken arms and legs."
"Soon, a f*cked-up soldier will be sent to you... lying around like bait for the Ukrainians."
Over 50,000 Russian soldiers have deserted since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, according to a study by the Russian independent media outlet Important Stories published in May.
Most of those captured are sent back to front-line duty under conditions described as near-suicidal. At the request of Important Stories, Aleksey Alshansky, an analyst for the Farewell to Arms project, checked the leaked databases for deserters known to their team. He found the names of only 15 of the 20 people who left the Russian Armed Forces. At least two of the Farewell to Arms members who were in the leaks were not publicly known. One of them intercepted messages without taking part in combat. He deserted in October 2023 and left Russia. Another former serviceman fled his unit in September 2022. Both deserters are on the federal wanted list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Important Stories found out.
As Alshansky notes, five deserters who were not included in the databases are also wanted in Russia. Their absence in the leaks cannot be explained by a general pattern: they left units of different military districts, and the lists include not only those who fled directly from the front. For example, the databases did not find a deserter who left his permanent deployment point, but there were people who left both their positions at the front and a military hospital. This suggests that not all real deserters were included in the leaks.
The Russian independent publication Verstka, citing classified data from the military prosecutor's office, reported that over 1,000 soldiers wanted for desertion were detained in a single month.
Only about 10 were actually imprisoned, while the remainder were reportedly returned to their commanders and dispatched to deadly "meat grinder" assaults.