Key Points – Mounting evidence, including videos and eyewitness reports from late 2024 and 2025, reveals Russia is deploying wounded soldiers, some on crutches, to the front lines in Ukraine.

Another soldier says, watching wounded colleagues shuffle by: “They are taking the boys with crutches to receive the weapons, f**king hell!” The unit is apparently headed to Makiivka, for ...

The russian command of the 20th combined arms army has sent assault groups of wounded soldiers using crutches into battle, Forbes reported on Wednesday, January 22. Some russian commanders are ...

By Nick Paton Walsh, Darya Tarasova and Kosta Gak, CNN. Kyiv & London (CNN) — The Russian military is sending wounded troops on crutches back to the frontlines to fight, and redeploying soldiers ...

A Russian assault trooper throws his crutch at an FPV drone. Ukraine MoD. It is no secret that Russia ‘recycles’ wounded soldiers, sending them back to the front line as soon as they are mobile.

VLADIMIR Putin is sending troops into battle on crutches — as more than 1,000 of his soldiers are killed every day. Russia’s January casualty rate hit 48,000 dead, wounded or missing.

Videos circulating online allegedly show Russian soldiers fighting on the battlefield despite being severely injured. The ASTRA Telegram channel reported, citing footage posted on several social media ...

By Nick Paton Walsh, Darya Tarasova and Kosta Gak, CNN Kyiv & London (CNN) — The Russian military is sending wounded troops on crutches back to the frontlines to fight, and redeploying soldiers ...

Another soldier says, watching wounded colleagues shuffle by: “They are taking the boys with crutches to receive the weapons, f**king hell!” The unit is apparently headed to Makiivka, for ...

Kyiv & London (CNN) — The Russian military is sending wounded troops on crutches back to the frontlines to fight, and redeploying soldiers with significant injuries to combat roles, as it ...

By Nick Paton Walsh, Darya Tarasova and Kosta Gak, CNN Kyiv & London (CNN) — The Russian military is sending wounded troops on crutches back to the frontlines to fight, and redeploying soldiers ...