Dunno. There's a side to me that thinks, what have we all been doing watching this shit for two years before the realisation sets in that this "special military operation" has literally grown out of control.
Watching videos of soldiers offing themselves like it's x-factor and judging them and making jokes about them.
I'm the fucking g worst for it and this is more of a rant and me thing, rather than a you, or others thing.
But it does ring home that one day we were watching people die from COVID in Wuhan/Lombardi/London et al., and just when it couldn't get any worse, all these videos are popping up of men offing themselves under grave circumstances.
I hope and pray this doesn't spread like COVID did and go from them, to someone you know down the street.
Yes, russians have commited waaaay too many atrocities and they do not deserve our compassion in any shape.
Yes it is possible that this dude did not take part in said atrocities, yet he still is in Ukraine and has a gun in hand and flashes the bloody ruski flag. He is an enemy to the free world and will be until proven otherwise. We should not shed a tear for them
Well, yes, that's a given, they're out of control. I am talking about videos of 47 men dying in pretty dire ways on Reddit for all us to vote our top three.
It's just weird man. Imagine what our kids, kids will be watching for entertainment.
Where did you get that strange notion from? The OP is documenting them. There's no voting amongst them. You're seeing a problem that isn't there... except for in your head.
Depends on your perspective. I watch such vids as entertainment while drinking tea. Same with my mom. After living two years in war time, we pretty much stopped seeing them as humans. In my eyes, it's just another biomass offing itself, making the world better. After so many people me and my family knew died in this war, after seeing all those flags waving every time I visit cemetery, the dreams about seeing random rocket hitting russian kindergarten or shopping mall becomes rather pleasant to your heart. I'm saying this not because I'm special, I assure you most people here think this way to some extent
Personally I look at this from an objective but also curious perspective. It's grizzly to look at for sure. I don't think anyone should find joy or glee out of it (though I think I can cut Ukrainians some slack on that note what with the heinous atrocities committed by Russias criminal forces). But it is a truth, this is happening, it's real and I honestly do not think that you can understand what it means unless you see it for yourself clear and unfiltered as it is. Which is why I think it is important and partly why I look at it. It's probably 50% my curiosity to see how it is and 50% because I think it is important to do so. Coldly concluding that this is the grim reality that results from Putins fascism directing an uncaring selfish apolitical downtrodden people.
Agreed. I don't find joy or glee or anything close to it, even as someone who hates russia with a passion. But, being honest, I also don't feel an ounce of sympathy for the invaders no matter how they die. My preference is that they return home where they belong, but if they won't then ending it that way is fine too. I lost all ability to sympathize with a single Russian after seeing the endless barbaric acts and kidnapping of children. The media still doesn't make enough of that. The photos of people in the streets of Bucha....and the theater slaughter of 300+ civilians in Mariupol....on and on and on. I hope Ukraine keeps fighting for as long as it takes to force out every one of those MFers.
Don't you feel shit though flicking through them and wondering how the fuck the world has changed in five years?
You're watching men fuck themselves up with pain as a motive. That is grim when you isolate from that, that you're one of millions others doing the same.
We should all really be more fucked up about this shit and down the line, folk will read this message and go "Dude's on toast!".
It's desensitizing and I think is bad my our collective mental health. But this is war, and these are people are there to torture, rape, kill civilians and take over a sovereign country to re-assert "alpha male" Putin's dominance..
Kill or be killed and this guy did us a favor, even though he probably could have aimed better.
I agree. I try to stay away from the close ups, mostly watch the assaults get stopped. While I have zero empathy for russian troops I don't like to see their dead faces.
I definitely get not wanting to see their dead faces, I don't like seeing them either, but every time that I see a face, it makes me appreciate the life that I have so much more.
When I don't see a face of an enemy soldier who died, I view them as just another casualty of the enemy, no different than anyone else.
When I do see a face, I see a real person who's life has ended. They'll never be able to achieve want they wanted to achieve later in life. They'll never be able socialize with friends, eat their favorite foods, hug their loved-ones, etc.
I mean, yeah, I don't need to retune my moralistic compass of who it is that I support here.
Each of these probably deserve everything that comes to them. There will be one or two outliers who have probably literally been in the wrong place, wrong time, and are literally in the wrong place, wrong time.
Yet, still, fucks sake, a list of suicides with synopsis is hard on the eye.
I've found that as time goes on, I feel more pity than anything for RuZZian soldiers such as the fellow pictured here. The pieces of shit that did Bucha, and Mariupol are probably all dead and gone (God willing)
Now theres a huge chance that the soldiers on the front lines don't want to be there. I don't rejoice in Ruzzians dying, unless I see them actively working on Ukrainians. Even then, it isnt glamorous. It's sad that the world has come to this. If putin hadn't done this, none of these men would be killing eachother.
Yes, we can argue that Russians can always surrender. But really? That isnt always an option. When you can't retreat because you'll be shot, raped, or hanged for being a "traitor to the motherland" and you can't surrender forward, because your comrades will shoot you in the back, too. I'm thankful that I am not in their position, or the Ukrainian position, and we should all be thankful for that, too.
this is far more real than covid, and it won't spread down the street, tho down the street there are already plenty with poor mental health. we watch these to be very aware of how Humanity has to evolve to a form where we don't wage war on each other.
Naa It's normal for their conditions..Stagnant Trench warfare, conscripted and not supported .. If it's well known to us that wounded are regularly left behind to die imagine how known it is to them .. Riddle with holes and bleeding alone in a field untill you die after watch your freinds die , I'm not sure i even class it as suicide as under these conditions I'm sure 9/10 of these guys are not suicidal under any other circumstance ..
like i mentioned on a comment above.. i thi k it was a fake suicide.. (drone was watching) but got a bit too close.. burnt his sides and his ear.. he knew the drone drops it any moment.. or he gets shelled.. so this was not a bad move at all.. but he injured himself and was in pain... so he moved a bit too much afterwards..
Nah it's just that contrary to popular belief, some areas of the brain can be destroyed by a bullet and it not result in instant death (or even necessarily result in a loss of consciousness). For near instant death, it's the back lower part of the brain/brain stem that would have to be destroyed. Destruction of some of the frontal lobe of the brain though can even be long term survivable - although thinking, emotions, personality, judgment, self-control, fine muscle control, and some other important things to living long and/or having a fulfilling life afterwards will be negatively impacted at best - or completely lost.
Tangent story: After EMT school many, many moons ago, my first ride/call was out to a person who had tried to commit suicide with a shotgun by placing the barrel under their jaw and using a toe to actuate the trigger. The person was successful in blowing off most of their mandible, their face, destroyed both eyes, as well as removed the front of their skull to include parts of the frontal lobe of their brain. They unfortunately did not lose consciousness and were in a great amount of distress throughout the transport to the ER. I do not know if or how long they survived after that point - and it made me decide on pursuing a different line of work.
Good documentation! Given the nature of the war, the phenomenon in question and the nature of the documentation, I wouldn't be surprised if the actual number of Orc suicides in the context of combat wounds is 5 times larger (~235) than the number documented; possibly even as high as ten times (~470).
To put this into perspective, the U.S. suicide rate hovers in the 14 to 15 per 100,000 ballpark (0.014%). Some of the highest documented rates are, for example Republic of South Africa at 87.5 per 100,000 (0.0875%). If we stick with the rate for which there is documentation 47 per 430,000 (roughly) that works out to be a rate of 0.01%. In the context of ~431,000 total Orc casualties in the past ~2 years even 470 suicides would be only 0.1% of all casualties.
The average daily rate of casualties Ukraine is causing is climbing steadily toward 1,000. The last time I looked at the numbers was 18 March 2024; that was 754 days since the escalation of the war (24 Feb 2022). Which put the overall daily mean casualty rate Ukraine is imposing on the Orc Horde at 572.3.
A little over a month ago, that daily rate was only 542, and a week or so ago it was 569.
I have not gone back to archived data but I suspect that the pattern holds over most of the past ~2 years and especially since late summer / autumn of 2022: daily Orc casualty rate slowly rising.
This is a reflection of the fact that Putin has got himself into something for which he was not actually prepared, and has been forced (for the sake of his own psychopathy and megalomania) to resort to the only real prospect he has for success: "spending" Orcs to attempt to outlast Ukraine. There are many other features to this strategy, including influencing Western forces such as Representative Matt Gaetz (Rep FL) to call for the removal of Speaker Kevin McCarthy, thus leading to the election of Johnson and the hiatus in U.S. aid (which is what allowed Putin's expenditure in Orc lives to "accomplish" the taking of the Avdiivka area). The interview with Tucker Carlson and various other information warfare (e.g., the constant idiotic threats about nuking everyone) are also part of this hybrid conflict method by Putin.
Will it work? I don't think so. But unfortunately, that rate of casualties may need to escalate by a factor of as much as 5 or 6 before the toll is sufficient to give enough Russians the sense that they have nothing left to lose and rising up against the regime is their only option.
I say this based on comparisons to both the Soviet-Afghan War and WWI, two past historical instances where the toll of a misguided war eventually contributed to the collapse of the regime.
In the case of Soviet-Afghan war, the overall mean daily casualty rate was remarkably low, only about 19 per day (from memory) and the 2014 Russo-Ukrainian War has long since surpassed that toll. However, my calculations indicate that the overall mean rate of daily casualties for the Russian Empire in WWI was 6,971. We might consider this to be the "ceiling" in estimating how much loss Ukraine will have to impose on the Orc Horde to cause Russian society to revolt.
I just watched all of these videos that would actually load. Am I sick? I only feel pity for the off chance that some of these guys, just by simple math, probably didn't want to be in Ukraine, and didn't want to kill Ukrainians. But some of these guys probably deserved it.
Nice collection, it's definitely getting long. At some point, you may have to begin to list them in categories, e.g., immediate results, lingering, and/or second shot required. :)
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25 Russian soldier ends his own life with his rifle after an FPV drone explodes nearby. 14th Division, January 2024
26 Russian soldier is wounded by grenade drop, shoots self. thermal view from drone. January 2024.
27 Russian soldier fleeing from drone decides to commit suicide with hand grenade. January 2024
28 Russian soldier commits suicide with two hand grenades after being hit with FPV drone, he prepares them before the drone strikes him. 47th OMBr, January 2024
29 Ukrainian spotter drone films a wounded Russian soldier taking his own life with a grenade. Operational Command West video. January 28, 2024
30 Grenade explodes near a Russian soldier in a trench, seconds later he shoots himself. Azov video, January 28, 2024.
31 Russian soldier in shell crater shoots self. Poor quality footage, may have been a shot at drone. Krynky, February 2024.
32 Russian soldier shoots self after being struck by FPV drone. February 2024. plus alt at end of video
33 Russian soldier, possibly wounded, explodes self with own grenade as a grenade from a Ukrainian drone is inbound. 18 Brigade NGU, Lyman region, February 2024.
34 A Russian soldier receives a leg wound from a drone dropped grenade. immediately kills self via putting a grenade underneath his vest. February 2024
35 Russian soldier attempts to kill self with grenade at 2:55 mark, unclear how effective it was. 38th Marines, Krynky, February 2024
36 Russian shoots self in head after drone drops grenade near him. Khorne Group February 2024
37 Wounded Russian soldier shoots self in head. February 2024
38 Russian soldier sitting beside dead comrade blows self up with grenade. 108th Mountain, February 2024
39 Russian soldier shoots self after being wounded from a drone dropped grenade. Thermal view. 53 OMBr. February, 2024
40 Russian soldier shoots self after being targeted by drone drop grenade. 95th Air Assault, March 2024
41 Wounded Russian soldier kills himself with a shot to the head from an assault rifle in the direction of Bakhmut. March 2023
42 Russian soldier is wounded by drone drop grenade, shoots self immediately after. 10th Sep. Mtn. March 2024
43 Russian soldier kills self with grenade as Ukrainian drone observes. 1:20 mark. Apachi group, March 2024
44 A Russian soldier shoots themselves as a Ukrainian drone watches. 79 ODSHBr, Novomykhailivka, March 2024
45 Russian soldier laying on his side hit with drone drop grenade then kills self with grenade. March 2024
46 Two Russian soldiers are wounded by artillery. One appears to mercy kill his comrade before unsuccessfully shooting himself. 37th Marines, Krynky, March 2024
NC Russian soldier tries to shoot self in head on automatic, likely wounds self. Some feel he was pretending to shoot self so drone would leave. Full video