Paul Goble
Staunton, May 19 – Russian troops wounded in Putin’s war in Ukraine face an unhappy fat, with many sent to overcrowded hospitals where they do not always receive the treatment they need and others returned to the front lines before they recover from their injuries, according to two articles in Novaya Gazeta Europe.
The number of wounded flooding back for treatment in hospitals military and otherwise has increased dramatically in recent months, overwhelming military hospitals and increasingly forcing civilian ones to close services to non-soldiers, thus adding to the number of Russian victims of Putin’s war (novayagazeta.eu/articles/2026/05/19/svoshnikov-nastolko-dofiga-chto-voennye-gospitali-ikh-ne-vmeshchaiut).
But perhaps the fact that many wounded soldiers are now being sent back into the front lines before their treatments are completed or even without more than superficial attention to their wounds is a larger problem, given that such men are more likely to die as a result (novayagazeta.eu/articles/2026/05/18/on-zhe-u-vas-muzhchina-spravitsia).
Because commanders need soldiers to fill in for losses, they want their men back as soon as possible, Novaya Gazeta Europe reports; and doctors are thus under pressure to declare such wounded soldiers fully recovered even if the men don’t feel that way – and Russian courts typically side with the commanders and doctors rather than the soldiers.
Because statistics are lacking and because each case appears different at r on superficial examination, such problems have received relatively little attention; but the two reports in Novaya Gazeta Europe provide sufficient detail that other articles about these problems may surface soon, eroding still further remaining Russian support for Putin’s war.
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