 A Russian soldier facing down Ukraine's counter offensive complained to his wife that 'they are f***ing us up' as his unit suffered heavy losses, calls intercepted by Kyiv reveal. The serviceman, named only as Andrey, compared the onslaught to the worst moments of Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. 'No f***ing ammunition, nothing… Shall we use our fingers as bayonets?' he moaned. The stark exchange was one excerpt from 17 phone calls made by Russian soldiers in the first two weeks of July by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the country's top intelligence agency. The expletive-laden intercepts, shared with Reuters by a Ukrainian intelligence source, provide a rare – albeit partial – glimpse into the conditions of some Russian soldiers on the frontline. The news agency verified the identity of the troops using messaging accounts or social media in their names, some of which featured photos of them in military uniform. Another soldier, Maxim, from the Siberian region of Irkutsk, told his wife Anna on July 3: 'That's it. There is no second battalion left. They f***ing turned it to crumbs.' Ukrainian soldiers shooting from a SPG-9 grenade launcher in the Serebrianskyi forest (Picture: Global Images Ukraine via Getty) He referred to dead comrades as 'cargo 200', a term coined during the Soviet Union's war in Afghanistan as a codeword for the zinc coffins used to carry home the bodies of dead Russian troops. Often shortened to '200', it is still widely used in both Russia and Ukraine to describe slain soldiers, while 'cargo 300' denotes the wounded. 'Basically, they couldn't even retrieve the (cargo) 300s. The 300s became 200s,' Maxim said, meaning that the wounded soldiers had been left on the battlefield to die. While Russia has so far largely stemmed Ukraine's fightback –){kind=link}
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A Russian soldier facing down Ukraine’s counter offensive complained to his wife that ‘they are f***ing us up’ as his unit suffered heavy losses, calls intercepted by Kyiv reveal.
The serviceman, named only as Andrey, compared the onslaught to the worst moments of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union.
‘No f***ing ammunition, nothing… Shall we use our fingers as bayonets?’ he moaned.
The stark exchange was one excerpt from 17 phone calls made by Russian soldiers in the first two weeks of July by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the country’s top intelligence agency.