Russian soldiers tell BBC they saw fellow troops executed on commanders' orders

[jjtheblunt]

i wonder, had Prigoshin and his Wagner group marched all the way to the Kremlin, how things would have changed. I also wonder how he didn't expect to be murdered in some insidious fashion, since mobsters are gonna mobster.

[jjtheblunt]

Having read the entire article, I also wonder how the soldiers let commanders execute fellow soldiers?

That's got to take some serious psychological breakdown to not pull a sidearm and shoot the corrupt commander.

[cedws]

I’ve always wondered what made him turn around. Threatened his family? Was Prigozhin a family man?

[mitchbob]

https://archive.ph/2026.02.24-070325/https://www.bbc.com/new...

[pjmlp]

Unfortunately some things never change in war crimes, see Stalingrad.

[technate4eva]

Executed with shovels and washing machines, I bet!

[general1465]

Usually executions are done indirectly by sending soldiers into meat wave assaults on well defended position.

[dpc_01234]

No idea what happened, but you'd be a fool to believe anything BBC says.

[Ancalagon]

why?