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Putin sends in 'execution squads' to kill own troops if they try to flee Ukraine war

The shocking claims come after a string of reports of incredibly low morale amongst Russian troops after what was supposed to be a 'lightning invasion' comes towards its second month of bitter fighting

Mr Andrusiv added: “He could not return home because his commander told him he would shoot him dead and say he died in battle.
“Misha told us that he had barely any food left, the command structure was chaotic and almost absent, morale is very low.”
Mr Andrusiv made the claims yesterday on social media, as apart of the ongoing communications war between the two sides.




Service members of pro-Russian troops are seen in the body of a truck on a road near the besieged southern port city of Mariupol ( 
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He said the defector would be given $10,000, a TV, phone, kitchen and shower to spend the rest of the war with.
His remarkable story follows growing claims that Russia’s forces are being hamstrung by desertions, with many of its troops conscripts.

Denys Monastyrsky, the minister for internal affairs, said: "We are seeing cases of surrender when Russian troops voluntarily contact our military and declare that they want to surrender, that they do not take part in active hostilities."
He claimed that many realised they were being used as "cannon fodder" by their commanders.
The Centre for Defence Strategies, a leading Ukraine think-tank echoed this, saying: ”Russian forces are aware of the hopelessness of their situation and increasingly choosing desertion to avoid death”.

Ukraine also claimed that two days ago they saw a sharp rise in defections in the southern Kherson and Mykolaiv regions.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence ’s intelligence agency said: "Having seen the real strength of the Ukrainian defenders, the occupiers are no longer interested in easy money and the possibility of looting, which they were promised before the invasion."