Russian cynicism is endless. Stung by recent reports of widows and mothers of Russian soldiers who are given no information about their missing loved ones, this bit of manufactured PR was made for a Russian tv channel, presumably to show how much the military cares about their mobilized soldiers and conscripts. The truth, of course, is that they don't put any value whatsoever on their soldiers, with their main strategy now to send endless "meat waves" of soldiers to almost certain death. (The average life expectancy for the newly mobilized is down to just 4.5 months from the time they arrive in Ukraine. For prisoners and conscripts given almost no training it's even less.) Russian casualties were nearly 1000 per day in November and over that this month.
Young Roman Rudakov, just 20, would have known how dire his circumstances were on the frontline in Marinka and etched his farewell into a block in the wall of the basement just before he and eight others with him were blown to pieces in Ukrainian shelling. At least that's the story given on Russian Telegram channels and KremlinTV. In their version, he died a heroic death instead of a pointless one, convinced he was defending the Homeland by invading a neighboring country just a couple of hours' drive from his home in Bataysk near the Ukrainian border.
Source: Obozrevetal (Ukraine)
The mother and sister of Roman Rudakov, an occupier who was killed in the war against Ukraine, were brought a brick in memory of the deceased. A soldier of the aggressor country left a note on it.
To do this, the Russian invaders dismantled part of the basement wall of a house in Marinka, Donetsk region of Ukraine. The block from which the wall was made was demonstratively "presented" to relatives - the whole process was filmed by a central pro-Kremlin TV channel.
The body of Rudakov and eight other occupants was found in the basement of a house in Marinka. Russian Telegram channels wrote that it was a group of Russian attack aircraft that was ambushed and surrounded.
The occupier wrote on one of the blocks on the wall of the room: "Whoever finds me, take care of my mother, sister and brother. Roman Rudakov, Bataysk".
