Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations, revealed Monday heartbreaking text messages between a Russian soldier and his mother that were obtained from the soldier’s smartphone after he died in combat.
What are the details?
While speaking to the U.N. General Assembly, Kyslytsya presented screenshots of the messages that he said were from the slain Russian soldier and his mother just moments before the soldier died.
“I would like to read from this screenshot of the smartphone of a killed Russian soldier. It’s an actual screenshot from someone who is dead already,” Kyslytsya said before reading the exchange in Russian.
- The mother: “Why has it been so long since you responded. Are you really in training exercises?”
- The soldier: “Mom, I’m no longer in Crimea. I’m not in training sessions.”
- The mother: “Where are you then? Papa is asking whether I can send you a parcel.”
- The soldier: “What kind of a parcel, Mama, can you send me? I just want to hang myself now.”
- The mother: “What are you talking about? What happened?”
- The soldier: “Mama, I’m in Ukraine. There is a real war raging here. I’m afraid. We are bombing all of the cities together, even targeting civilians. We were told that they would welcome us and they are falling under our armored vehicles, throwing themselves under the wheels and not allowing us to pass. They call us fascists. Mama, this is so hard.”
The text messages are further evidence that Russian soldiers were unaware they were being mobilized in preparation for war against Ukraine.
Over the weekend, a viral video showed captured Russian solders telling their Ukrainian captors that they were told by their commanders they were going to Ukraine for training missions, but felt “cheated” when they were ordered to engage in war.
“We were told we were being sent for training at first, but we were put on the frontline,” one Russian soldier said. “We do not want this war. We just want to go home and we want peace.”
Another captured Russian said, “They told us that everything would be fine. We knew nothing. We were deceived and abandoned.”
Anything else?
During his U.N. speech, Kyslytsya also called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to kill himself like Adolf Hitler did in May 1945. Kyslytsya’s remarks came after Putin placed Russian nuclear forces on high alert, which Kyslytsya implied meant Putin is ready to die.
“Following Putin’s order to put in alert Russian nuclear forces— what a madness,” Kyslytsya said. “If he wants to kill himself, he doesn’t need to use nuclear arsenal. He has to do what the guy in Berlin did in a bunker in May 1945.”
Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.N. Sergiy Kyslytsya Remarks at U.N. General Assembly Emergency Meeting
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