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Russian troops are ready to kill generals who try to force them on the offensive, Ukraine's General Staff of the Armed Forces claimed in a Facebook post, citing intercepted Russian calls.
The intercepted calls have come from Ukrainian intelligence, and have not been independently verified.
The Facebook post claims that Russian forces fighting in Ukraine almost shot General Valery Solodchuk and his guards, who had come to the Donetsk region to encourage troops on the frontline.
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"Russian soldiers are ready to kill their generals, which force them to go on the offensive," the post from early on Monday said.
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"Yes, in Donetsk region, Russian contractors almost shot their general Valery Solodchuk and his guards, who came to curb the riot and make the 'commanders' continue to fight," it added.
"The soldiers refused to obey the order and were ready to blow up the 'high guests.' So the Russian general shamefully fled the front, wagging his tail," the Facebook post said.
It said that this was evidenced by a telephone conversation of a Russian soldier called Zagarbnikív and his wife picked up by the Security Service of Ukraine.
According to the post, the soldier allegedly tells his wife on the call: "Last night the commander arrived."
"The company commander arrived?" she replies.
"What company? The area... the f*cker came here. He was asked a question... by someone whose contract is ending... And he asked me—"How long until the end of your contract?" I said—"20-something days." He—"Well, you have twenty days to die here," he says.
"Is he out of his f*cking mind?" the woman responds.
**"**Yep. And then everyone started refusing going forward, going to the front. That's bullshit now. Our BTG, of 600 people, we have 215 people remaining. Everyone else is either killed or wounded," replies her husband.
**"**F*cking motherf*cker. Is he f*cking nuts?" the woman says.
**"**Yeah... in our battery almost everyone refused, f*ck. He started waving with his gun, shooting, said—'I'll kill you if you don't go there!' And then this kid says—'Come on, kill!' F*ck, he pulled out the grenade, the pin, and said—'Come on, shoot me, come on! We'll blow up together here,'" Zagarbnikív says.
"That's all. Even Spetsnaz [Russian special forces] were pointing guns at us, and we pointed guns at them too. In short, we almost shot each other, f*ck. He got in his car and left."
Newsweek has contacted the Russian foreign ministry for comment.
Another report on Monday by Ukrainian intelligence said that Russian commanders are holding hostage the families of troops who refuse to perform combat missions in Ukraine.
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