With the poorly prepared and poorly supplied Russian troops that invaded Ukraine, they've been looting for warmer clothing to put on under the uniforms. Such Ukrainian civilian clothing is often seen under the uniforms of dead and captured Russian soldiers.
But now in addition to the Russians abandoning their dead and wounded,
in the areas that Ukrainian forces retake, we're seeing images & footage of
wounded Russian soldiers being left behind, but having been changed into Ukrainian civilian clothes. Some have stolen Ukrainian IDs that have photos that are vaguely similar to the wounded. As usual, most claims are that they've been left to die, but some claims that they're being left because the Russians don't have anything with which to care for their wounded with other than trivial wounds, so the soldiers decide to take their chances posing as a Ukrainian civilian.
Puts a new twist on the Russian soldiers stealing of IDs from civilian Ukrainians, those they let live, those they leave wounded and those they execute. Earlier reports of Russian soldiers killing civilians because that makes it easier to rob them of food, clothing, etc.. Wonder what else will turn up with Russians (or others) using those IDs.
Oddly (to me), some Russian dead are found with no ID. No papers, nothing on their uniform. As though their own soldiers removed such from their dead.
Some claims of Russian soldiers fighting in Ukrainian military uniforms (not just wearing their better boots), to move within Ukrainian controlled areas, but I've not seen convincing evidence yet.
p.s.
* One report in an area that Ukrainian forces retook. A woman and her family started living in the basement of their small home for safety from intermittent shelling. Then under occupation, Russian soldiers were going door to door searching. After going to answer the door from banging, the woman reported the
Russian soldier who was searching their home suddenly said "It wasn't supposed to be like this!" and hurriedly left before completing his search. It wasn't specified what the soldier was or may have been looking for.
* #Russiansoldiers
hung chickens' heads with clothespins to clotheslines in #Vorzel in #Kyiv region. This was reported by the UAnimals movement. [whole chickens, still feathered, hung by heads; terror? destroying food supply? went crazy?]
[From a telegram video, showing exactly what the text describes...]
The Russian side refuses to take the corpses of the killed soldiers of its army. As a result, the corpses are lying where the fighters were overtaken by death. They are sometimes eaten by stray dogs.
