One interesting moment: From the sart of the war, russian nazionalists propaganda and so-called "voencori" (war journalists) speculated that ukrainians cutting testicles to russian captives. Ofc, with 0 proofs, later one "voencor" Evgeny Poddubny told that this was his psyop idea, but as you can understand russian didn't believe that all this shit was just a imagination of one "voencor". So they think that ukrainians doing this, but putin and russian govenrment trying to cover this facts. And as we see, they started to do it by themselves.
So what in return? We have proof that russian doing such things (at least once), but zero proofs about ukrainians.
Of course, they're projecting their own crimes on Ukrainians. Just like with attacks on civilian objects, looting, etc. It's easier to "report" it when you don't have to make it up, just blame it on the other side.
This is more interesting pattern, which often happens only to russians: Government propaganda or some initiative russian blogger creating some BS narrative, like "ukrainians cutting testicles to our pows" and some time later russians start doing this things by themselves. Because in their reality it's just "an answer" to what enemies have done to them (russians).
And
EVEN creator of such BS (in case with testicles - russian propagandists Evgeny Poddubny) told everyone that this is fake, noone will believe him. Typical answer is conspiracy theories that
"Government covers cases where our soldiers were cut, because government is an ally to ukrainians/westerners/reptilians"Look at this take, from a russian: "Я заколебался слушать рассказы о российских солдатах, лишившихся тестикул в плену. На мой резонный вопрос
«ну и где хоть один?» мне обычно отвечают в духе
«да Минобороны скрывает, чтоб жести не было». На моё резонное замечание, что вообще-то с такой историей можно было бы получить хотя бы международный нейтралитет в конфликте, собеседники обычно зависают. Ну вот итог того, что никаких опровержений или подтверждений диким историям так и не дали. Мы опять по уши в говне и с документальной фиксацией"
https://t.me/RottenKepkenChannel/18729In short: The guy asks
"If it was so, where all proofs?" and often answer is
"Ministry of Defense hide such cases!"Main examples:
- Shelling Donbass by ukrainians (Despite we know about some cases, the main thesis is BS" - now russians shelling ukrainians
- cutting testicles off (again, fake story) - now we have proofs that russians REALLY do such things
So you can with ease predict what russian soldiers will do, just watching main propaganda and nationalists takes.