Russian → English transcript

People… Ballast…

Yeah, they just think we’re sick, they don’t want to treat us,

they just decided to kill us. All of us at once, basically.

Now they’re sending us out, take off these radios, fuck.

They gave us these weapons, fuck. They gave each of us a weapon,

magazines, fuck, they gave us, camouflage suits. The maps arrived,

they loaded us up, fuck.

But what’s the point of these Kalashnikovs for us if we, fuck, walk…

and basically we can’t even walk.

This is the kind of lawlessness going on, basically, in the fifty- ninth…

in the Fifty- Ninth Tank Regiment.

They’re just wiping us out like useless ballast.

They just decided to wipe us out, yeah. They just decided to wipe us out.

I have… uh… a red“ V” mark, my legs don’t work. One doesn’t work at all,

the right one, the foot was broken there, there are fragments in the knee.

And this guy here also has… uh… osteomyelitis, fuck.

One guy has it all stitched back together, fuck, lengthwise and crosswise.

Uh... here is a man without fingers who is recording on camera. Show...

show your hand, fuck.

This is how they send us to combat duty. This person’s le...

right arm... his right arm is hanging, it does not work, fuck.

Basically, so... One guy over there sits with a stick, he cannot even walk at all.

That is how... that is how they, basically...

The Defense Ministry, our command, basically, is disposing of us.

So I ask you to take this into account and share this video.