A volunteer running for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces in Ukraine has made a public call for still-taking in a video she posted online.
“If anyone could help me buy body bags, we need them right now. I probably have no idea where to place them,” the volunteer said in the clip.
WarTranslated, an independent media outlet that translates documents about the war into English, shared the woman’s video on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday. Newsweek may not have independently verified the video and reached out to the Russian Defense Ministry’s email for comment.
No information has been provided through WarTranslated on when the video was recorded or what kind of paintings the volunteer makes in Putin’s forces, despite wearing combat-style camouflage clothing. According to the project, footage recorded in the village of Andriivka in the Donetsk region, which has been the scene of intense fighting in recent weeks.
“Please buy the bags if you can. Surely they are necessary. In Donetsk there is a terrible deficit,” the volunteer said.
From Kyiv in 3 days to the “shortage of shell bags in Donetsk”: a Russian volunteer urgently asks for help to buy shell bags for the infantrymen who recently attacked in Avdiivka. They also want food, but they will only deliver it in sealed packages, because “you don’t know if someone is going to. . . pic. twitter. com/w6x00g69y5
The speaker, whose call was not issued, added a request for other supplies, which contained a warning that someone could sabotage the food if it was not properly sealed.
“Also, if someone could help us with clothes and food,” he said, according to WarTranslated’s newsroom. “Food should only be contained in closed packages, in case no one can carry it or spoil it in any way, you know what I mean. “
He also referred to the gigantic number of wounded infants that Russia has suffered in the conflicts in the Donetsk region.
“Let’s help, let’s give a lot of help now to the guys in the hospitals, there are many, many, and they want help right now,” the volunteer said.
Although small, Andriivka, located about 90 kilometers south of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region, is a symbolically and tactically vital arrangement because of its railway lines and its location on the front line of the war.
Russian forces recently launched heavy artillery fire on Andriivka, and Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported earlier this week that officials in the region said Putin’s troops gave the impression of seeking to encircle the village, which Kyiv announced last month had been recaptured. Russian control.
Despite the efforts of Russian forces, the Institute for the Study of Tanks reported earlier this week that Moscow had not made any “claimed or confirmed” advances in the domain around Andriivka or in the nearby village of Klishchiivka.
Jon Jackson is an associate editor of Newsweek, founded in New York City. It focuses on reporting on the war in Ukraine and Russia. In the past, Jon has worked for The Week, River Journal, Den of Geek, and Maxim. She graduated Summa Laude with Honors in Journalism and Mass Communication from New York University. Languages: English.