A Russian soldier who suffered a severe eye injury while fighting in Ukraine recently released a video in which he said Moscow's military command has ordered him to return to the war.
The clip was shared to X (formerly Twitter) on Monday by WarTranslated, an independent media project that translates materials about the Russia-Ukraine war into English.
WarTranslated frequently posts videos of Russian soldiers airing their grievances with Putin or Russia's military leaders.
On Saturday, WarTranslated's X account shared a video that allegedly showed naked Russian soldiers being forced to stay in a pit because they refused to fight.
In late June, the media project shared a video of a Storm-Z company from Russia's military saying they would not return to what they called the "meat grinder" of the front lines.
I'm a veteran of the SMO [special military operation] and was very badly wounded in the Bakhmut direction," the soldier said in the video, according to WarTranslated's subtitles.
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