Up to 113 active Russian servicemen were convicted in 2023 - a near 900 per cent increase on just 13 in 2022
The number of Russian soldiers committing murder after returning home from the frontline have soared over the past few years amid “chronic mental health” issues linked to serving on the battlefield.
Data from Moscow’s judicial department showed that 113 active servicemen were convicted in 2023 - representing a near 900 per cent increase on just 13 convictions in 2022.
The UK Ministry of Defence said the high number of homicides was likely due to “war-related chronic mental health issues” and the release of thousands of ex-convictspardoned for their participation in the war.
russia is completely fucked and I think the world might be better off that way.
Power vacuums and breakaway republics forming from the decaying corpse of an empire with the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons is probably not going to leave the world better off.
I guarantee that in the event of a Russian implosion the US and China will swoop in to secure nuclear assets. China especially because they want Russian land for mining.
This isn’t a movie where there is a definitive implosion moment when foreign powers will able to just waltz in and “secure” their mass stockpile of nuclear weapons, or all of their ICBM silos.
This is a massive country with a distributed nuclear triad who’s capabilities are meant to withstand a first strike, and still be able to absorb a few more rounds of nuclear armageddon.
Guess again on how that scenario of foreign powers invading to capture their nuclear weapons would unfold.
unfortunately when a giant drops dead, its falling corpse can still do a lot of damage
Same will happen to IDF soldiers, not sure if Israel is prepared for that.
Pfffft… Yet another sign of the Russian economy booming!
They are fucking animals when out there. Killing and raping anything they want to just for shits. No wonder some of that stays inside of their underdeveloped brains after.
Not unique to Russia. Armed forces folks the world over are groomed to act like this.
Check out the surging rate of domestic abuse in Israel following Oct 7th.
And sexual assault in the US military (particularly the “elite” JSOC units) climbs with every new surge in deployment abroad.
Drug use, PTSD, high rates of bankruptcy and divorce and homelessness, all common to the military occupation.
Just another reason why War Is Bad.
Who would have known that giving your convicted murderers guns and letting them loose on a battlefield with zero accountability for the war crimes they commit and then release the survivors in your cities with zero transition whatsoever isn’t an effective way to rehabilitate them?
