Russian soldiers speak out against 'criminal orders' and seek surrender options.

Recent videos have surfaced in which Russian conscripts complain about being sent to fight and die on the front lines in Ukraine without sufficient training, ammunition, or weapons. The conscripts have used phrases such as “criminal orders” and “senseless assaults” to describe their situation. The videos signal that the problems that plagued Russia’s invasion throughout its first year are far from resolved, and they offer further evidence that Moscow is relying on a grim tactic of sending waves of soldiers to certain death to soften up Ukrainian positions, ahead of sending in elite, experienced fighters to then gain ground.