"Putin is an idiot"... New York Times reveals data from Russian military's intercepted phone calls for 'invasion of Ukraine'

"Civilians? We killed them all. If we let go, our location will be discovered, and we won't have any food to give you anyway."

"I'm thinking of getting a TV... Is LG or Samsung better?"

"How are you going to get it?"

"Well, I'll have to think about it. The other kids got only a bed."

"Occupy Kiiu? Putin is an idiot. There's no way we can do that, no matter what."

The Russian army advanced toward the capital of Kiiu at the beginning of the Ukrainian War, but when faced with resistance and logistical problems from the Ukrainian army, they established a position in the satellite city of Bucha in the northern part of Kiiu and stayed there for several months.

The New York Times, an American daily, reported thousands of secret calls from Russian soldiers in the trenches, secretly calling their family members, lovers, and friends in their home countries, divulging their war crimes, disillusionment with the war, and dissatisfaction with the government. It was obtained and reported on the 28th (local time).

Soldiers thought they had managed to secretly talk to family and friends while avoiding their superiors, but the conversation was being recorded by the Ukrainian intelligence service.

The New York Times said that it had obtained data from Russian soldiers intercepting calls and cross-checked phone numbers and social media for nearly two months to verify their authenticity.

A soldier named Nikita told his girlfriend, "There are corpses on the street here."

He even said on the phone with a friend that the soldiers were looting.

He said, "They're stealing everything. They found and ate everything they could find and took all the money. (Soldiers) are all doing this," he said.

One soldier even seriously asked her girlfriend which LG or Samsung TV she found in a Ukrainian home to bring home.

When she asked her girlfriend how she was going to get it, she said, "Well, I'll have to think about it," she said, adding, "Others brought a TV the size of a bed."

Another soldier said he was driving a Japanese-made Kawasaki motorcycle and giggled with the woman over the receiver.

Some soldiers complained to the military authorities that they thought they were going for training, but they were taken to the battlefield in Ukraine.

Soldier Alexei told her girlfriend, "From the top we were going to be training. These bastards didn't tell us anything."

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Some soldiers confessed that they were notified only a day before they left for the battlefield.

The soldiers also poured out their resentment against President Vladimir Putin and the military commander for sending them to the battlefield without giving them proper equipment.

The New York Times reported that if he had said this in his home country, he would have been taken to the police.

Ilya asked her lover what Putin had to say about the war.

When he heard Putin's explanation that 'everything was going as planned,' he said, "You're making a big mistake."

"Putin is an idiot. He wants to take Kiiwu, but he has no way to do it," Alexander said.

"Mom, this is the stupidest decision Russia has ever made," Sergei said in a phone call with his mother.

When someone asked, "Are the soldiers throwing away all their equipment?", a soldier complained, "Everything used here is outdated."

The New York Times evaluated that the low morale and lack of equipment revealed in their comments suggest the reason for the recent retreat of the Russian army from the Eastern Front.

The soldiers replied that more and more coffins would continue to arrive.

The covert calls of the soldiers included casually confessing to the massacre of civilians that soon shocked the world.

Sergei confessed to his girlfriend that he had captured civilians, stripped her of her clothes, and shot and killed her in the forest.

They said that when they let them go, they could hand over their positions to the enemy.

When her girlfriend asked, "Did you shoot people too?" Sergei replied, "Of course you did."

When asked why he hadn't kept them captive, he replied, "You have to feed them, and we're short."

A few weeks after talking to his girlfriend on the phone, Sergei told his mother, "I was in the woods around the headquarters and saw a pile of corpses in civilian clothes," he said.

However, even in such horrific conditions, some soldiers complained that they had to persevere and remain on the battlefield.

The combat allowance they receive is $53 a day, which is about 80,000 won in our money, because that's three times the average salary that soldiers get in their hometown.

(Photo = Yonhap News)