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| Historian explains why Russian soldiers decided to save the Ukrainian female soldier |
| 2023-12-27 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] If the enemy on the battlefield is unarmed, wounded and ready to surrender, then, according to military ethics, they save him and do not think about whether he will take up arms after recovery, and gender has nothing to do with it. Thus, historian, political scientist and publicist Mikhail Smolin commented on the situation with the rescue of a woman who fought for the Ukrainian Armed Forces by the Russian military in a conversation with IA Regnum. Historian Smolin explained the rescue of a Ukrainian woman in the Northern Military District zone by the ethics of a Russian military man Earlier, the Russian military rescued a Ukrainian female soldier, whom her colleagues abandoned on the battlefield near the village of Krynki in the Kherson region. As a Russian drone flew over the wounded and dead, she raised her hand to ask for help. She was taken away by Russian military personnel to provide medical care. According to historian and political scientist Smolin, the Russian military acted highly morally and ethically. “In this sense, the Russian military behaves in accordance with ethical principles, because any profession has its own ethics in relation to those who are unarmed and in a critical situation and ask for help. This woman was practically giving up. Here, any normal professional military man who applies a moral approach to his work would act exactly like our military,” Smolin noted. He drew attention to the fact that this situation also characterizes the different approaches of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Russian military to the Ukrainian conflict, their distinctive features of conducting combat operations. Smolin noted that many cases are already known when a soldier of the Russian Army found himself in a similar situation, but he was not given help. “Here, a different attitude to military service and to the conduct of hostilities distinguishes Russian military personnel from Ukrainian ones. The Ukrainian Armed Forces will not care whether it is a man or a woman,” the historian added. As he noted, the incident is now being discussed quite loudly and there are several versions of why the woman decided to signal for help. According to one of them, the Ukrainian serviceman thought that a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone was flying by, and thus gave a sign to “friends” and not “strangers.” But Smolin considers this not important in this story. “What’s important is not what she was thinking when she signaled for help, what’s important is what the Russian military did,” he emphasized. They also talk about exceptional actions in relation to female military personnel. According to Smolin, at the front they do not attach importance to gender; everyone there is military, everyone is fighters. The historian also believes that it is important not to focus on negative speculation that a Ukrainian woman, after restoration, can again take up arms and go to the front line to fight in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In his opinion, wounded soldiers of the Ukrainian army who find themselves in a similar situation can both retain their views and change their ideology and change their attitude towards the conflict. “But it is important that no matter how the event develops, the ethics of the military are preserved. And it’s unlikely that the military should change their behavior and refuse to help a wounded person with an eye on what the rescued soldier will do next,” Smolin concluded. In Kiev, in October, women with medical education began to be checked and registered with the military. The requirement to register also affected research assistants, paramedics and heads of health departments. As reported by IA Regnum , the story of a Russian serviceman from the Lugansk People's Republic with the call sign Ded previously became public knowledge. During the battles for the village of Berestovoe in the DPR on February 22, he shielded a colleague with his body. According to one of the rescued, if his comrade had not helped, he would have died. In the fall of 2023, a similar incident occurred in battles in the Avdeevka direction. According to a serviceman of the 1st Slavic Brigade with the call sign Vodolaz, the heroic act became even more unique because the Russian soldier, who covered his comrades with his body, survived. Russian President Vladimir Putin, at the awards ceremony for SVO participants in the Kremlin, spoke about the action of the tanker of the Alyosha crew. When he was presented with the award, he approached the president and asked him to award his commander as well. Putin noted that this could only happen in the Russian army. The crew of the Alyosha tank eliminated the Ukrainian armored group in the Zaporozhye direction, destroying eight units of enemy armored vehicles during the battle. After the liquidation of the last combat vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, “Alyosha” covered the motorized riflemen for another 40 minutes. |
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