Russian forces have suffered a spike in troop losses in the last three months after launching an offensive on Avdiivka.
A Russian soldier has described how he was sent to the frontline in Ukraine after only getting minimal training, in a video that has gone viral.
Ukrainian internal affairs adviser Anton Gerashchenko posted the clip on X (formerly Twitter) of the unnamed Russian serviceman describing how he had been « sent to slaughter » in the war.
It comes as Russia suffers huge losses in the offensive it launched in October towards Avdiivka, in the Donetsk oblast, which has seen a spike in troop deaths, according to Ukrainian and Western estimates.
The video was posted on the pro-Ukrainian Telegram channel Brati Yakovlevi whose YouTube channel has a series of videos of Russian troops who have voluntarily surrendered to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
