As of now, there are nearly 2500 people missing from the occupied territories. We are talking about pure kidnapping and clear evidence of torture.
It is behind a paywall, so I will quote some bits:
When russia occupied Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, in February, most residents fled. But a baker named Matviy stayed to help his neighbours. (The names of the disappeared and their families have been changed for their protection.) On March 18th Russian soldiers burst into his home and took him away at gunpoint, says his sister Natalia: “We have not heard from him since.” Ukraine’s overwhelmed police, prosecutors and human-rights groups have been unable to help.
Bucha is the tip of the iceberg. Thousands of Ukrainians have been abducted from Russian-occupied areas, including activists, journalists and humanitarian workers. Journalists Serhey Tsyhipa and Oleh Baturin were seized on March 12th while reporting on atrocities committed by Russian forces. “They were taken to an unknown place with bags on their heads,” says Anastasia, Mr Tsyhipa’s step-daughter. Mr Tsyhipa eventually appeared on Russian state tv looking thin and spouting Kremlin propaganda.
“The Russians are abducting people to silence dissent,” says Nadia Dobriansk of Zmina, a Ukrainian human-rights group. Torture has been widely documented. Mykola Panchenko, an activist who had attended protests in occupied territory, was kidnapped while buying groceries. His wife Svitlana says masked men brought him to their house hours later and searched for weapons, then took him away again. The Russians released Mr Panchenko a month later with broken ribs. Other victims have turned up dead.
Disappearances in Ukraine are not new. Between 2014 and 2021 over 2,000 people vanished; both pro-Russian forces and Ukrainian security services were implicated. Russia has deployed such terror tactics for decades. After it annexed Crimea in 2014, Crimean Tatar activists and community leaders disappeared in droves. During Russia’s two wars in Chechnya in the 1990s, disappearances were so widespread that Human Rights Watch said they amounted to a crime against humanity.
You're wrong here. Despite the fact that noone had seen any "nato general" through captive on Azovstal, russian in general still believe in existence of such generals.
The reason why they don't see them for russian is easy: "Our NOVIOPS already exchanged generals behind our backs"
LOL so I guess that's why there's "bavovna" all over the ammunition depots - NATO generals Himars and Caesar are attacking.
It is just RF soldiers smoking in the wrong places. All those weapons had been destroyed already by "precision posting" by the trolls here.
It is curious how many Kremlin apologists can sustain at the same time the armed superiority of the RF and at the same time say that Ukraine has more means. That's the result of overdose by exposure to official media.
NATO!!!
Remember the Azovstal bunkers full of NATO generals? Well, no one does now, but it was playing on Russian TV at the time as one of the excuses why it took too months to occupy Mariupol and why they had to bomb it all to shit in the process.
Russia is at war with the entire world, or rather the 10% of it, because 90% support Russia, but don't start looking for cognitive dissonance here.
All the sudden maths no longer makes sense to me.