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Video surfaces of mutiny by Russian soldiers in Ukraine [1]
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Date: 2022-07-23
Vasily Vereschagin, The Road of the War Prisoners (1878–1879). This likely depicts a road taken by military prisoners in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), in which both sides carried out massacres and ethnic cleansing. Despite rampant corruption in its army, Russia defeated the Ottomans, acquired Kars and Batum, and tightened its grip over the Black Sea.
In “Video Shows Russian Soldiers Refusing To Fight In Ukraine”, RFE/RL’s Timofei Rozhanskiy reported yesterday of a July 12 video of Russian military engineers refusing to fight in Ukraine. Here’s a bit of dialog from the video, in RFE/RL’s translation:
Colonel: Get in the car and get moving!
Soldier: No one is going anywhere.
Colonel: Then other people will take you away in handcuffs.
Soldier: On what justification?
Colonel: There is justification.
Soldier: What justification? We didn't know where we were going. You are breaking your own laws.
The video was taken on one of the soldiers’ cell phones and was sent to his mother. A later video by another soldier shows the cellar where they were held without food or water. Although the soldiers’ phones were smashed or confiscated, they evidently hid a phone or two successfully for a while. Eventually one of the soldiers’ mothers received texts that were strangely reassuring and were evidently not from the soldier in question, so evidently the phone was confiscated.
We don’t know the soldiers’ fate.
Videos and images of mutinies are extremely rare in the historical record, and this war may be the first one where we see them during the war. I could not find any photos of a mutiny suitable for display in this story, so I’ve substituted a painting of a road taken by prisoners of war in the horrific Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. Although largely forgotten in the West, that war is in many respects similar to the Russian invasion of Ukraine this year.
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