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Russian clergy cajole recalcitrant troops

PROPAGANDIST PRIESTS SUMMONED FOR RUSSIAN INVADERS WHO FEAR GOING ON ATTACK

RISU, 11 April 2022

 

Russian invaders call themselves a "suicide squad" and refuse to go onto the attack. In order to persuade the invaders, a priest even was summoned, but he was unable to convince them.

 

This was reported by the SBU [Ukrainian Security Service], citing an intercepted conversation of the invaders, TSN [Ukrainian Television News Service] relates.

 

In a conversation with his mother, an invading soldier from Krasnodar territory claimed that they were being thrown into battle "like minced meat," and thus 130 soldiers out of 150 in his regiment are refusing to go on the attack.

 

"After the colonel failed to persuade them to attack, a priest was brought to them. But both the colonel and the clergyman rejected the suggestion of the 'refuseniks' that they lead the attacking column. Therefore the soldiers said 'to hell with them' and refused to attack," the report says. (tr. by PDS, posted 11 April 2022)

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