On July 6, Izvestia correspondent Kirill Olkov showed how Russian servicemen were distributing propaganda shells calling on the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) to surrender.
It is noted that the fighters carefully pack boxes with leaflets into blanks from rockets. There are 10 thousand leaflets in each shell. On the back of the leaflet is a contact number, a Qr code and step-by-step instructions on surrender.
"The enemy is morally depressed. He sees his comrades dying. Massively. Therefore, many people want to surrender, because if they refuse to participate in hostilities, there they will face trial or reserve units that go into battle as meat — the first," said the commander of the psychological warfare task force with the callsigns "Trickster".
The APU militants are called in propaganda leaflets to disconnect the magazine, hang the weapon on the left shoulder with the barrel down, raise their hands and slowly come out of hiding. In this case, no one will touch them.
The servicemen of the Eastern Military District (VVO) use the multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) "Hurricane" to distribute leaflets. The ejector mechanism of the projectile is triggered at about a height of 100 m. Leaflets in free fall scatter over enemy positions within a radius of 1 km or more.
"The contingent is mainly now mobilized personnel who were forcibly taken into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Every one of them who was captured by us tells us that they did not want to. They are sick, all of them did not enter the army due to their health, but were forcibly taken to the military enlistment office and sent to the front line, where they were assured that they would stand in the rear areas," the "Trickster" shared.
Many Ukrainian servicemen have used their right to lay down their arms. Anatoly Borodichenko, a fighter of the 35th Marine Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said that he was forcibly thrown to the front.
"I changed my views when I realized that my country does not need me as a person, as a person. Cannon fodder. I advise you not to follow the lead of this system. I advise you to go abroad or to Russia. Nothing will save this country. While lovers of Ukrainian customs, language, and ready to kill each other for the language are in power, I advise you to turn around and go to Kiev. To where the Verkhovna Rada is. Where everything comes from," he said.
Earlier, on May 29, the correspondent of Izvestia, Stanislav Grigoriev, showed the distribution of propaganda shells by Russian servicemen calling on the AFU militants to surrender near Avdiivka.
On May 17, Russian servicemen of the Grad MLRS calculations of the Central Military District (CVO) used propaganda shells on the positions of the AFU. They are a projectile with a warhead, in which, instead of striking elements and explosives, rolls with propaganda leaflets are loaded. Each leaflet contains calls for the servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to surrender.
The special operation to protect Donbass, which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was made against the background of the aggravation of the situation in the region due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.
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