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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Soldiers on crutches and canes were sent to a main desert camp used for Iraq training. Military experts say the Army was pumping up manpower statistics to show a brigade was battle ready.

A disabled British serviceman on crutches realized his dream of completing the London Marathon — 13 days after the race began. A delighted Major Phil Packer told Sky News: "It's been amazing. I ...

From left, Regina Finn and her two daughters Casey and Genevieve at home in Allentown, New Jersey, with two pair of decorated crutches from Genevieve's Crutches, an incorporated and non-profit ...

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 ...

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 ...