As Russians POW Murders Increase, More UKR Troops Refuse To Surrender

Russian units are increasingly murdering Ukrainian soldiers who try to surrender, causing Ukrainian troops to change their behavior as they understand that fighting to the death while taking more Russians with them is preferable to being executed.

The growing Russian murder rate is driven by purposeful orders attempting to reduce Ukrainians morale and scare off new recruits, but also by frustration on the part of Russian soldiers angered by their skyrocketing casualties and inability to defeat the Ukrainians. JL

Decimus reports in Daily Kos:

The news keep coming with alarming frequency … Russians executing unarmed Ukrainian prisoners.  Every day now there is news of this dark turn by Russian forces as their own casualties in the unfathomable “meat assaults”  skyrocket. The word is getting around among Ukrainian units on the front lines … “Never Give Up, Never Surrender” as the Russians, frazzled by their mounting losses, will not treat you with the time honored soldierly concern accorded to captured combatants.

The news keep coming with alarming and nauseating frequency … Russians executing unarmed Ukrainian prisoners.  Seemingly every day now there is news of this dark turn by Russian forces as their own casualties in the unfathomable “meat assaults”  skyrocket.

From the Kyiv Independent just today alone: 

Video shows Russian forces executing unarmed, wounded Ukrainian soldier, Kyiv says

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But it seems the word is getting around among Ukrainian units on the front lines … “Never Give Up, Never Surrender”.  The chances are that the Russians, frazzled by their mounting losses, will not treat you with the time honored soldierly care and concern accorded to captured combatants.  

And so it was that a group of 35 Ukrainian soldiers trapped in a village recently over run by the Russians on the Kurakhove front decided to stand their ground and not surrender.  They called their unit for help.  And their brothers(and sisters?) came roaring through the occupied village, the guns on their BMPs blazing.  They were successfully evacuated. 

Two Ukrainian BMPs fought their way through a Russian-occupied village, guns blazing, to evacuate 35 encircled Ukrainian soldiers from the "Medoid" tactical group of the 169th Training Center. These soldiers had held their position to the end, refusing to surrender to the enemy.… pic.twitter.com/AhJNTafREc

— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated) November 9, 2024

No doubt the morale of the rescued soldiers is sky high and that they will return to the fight even more confident and fortified by the sure knowledge that their brothers and sisters have their backs … through thick and thin. Never Give Up, Never Surrender.