{"id":1382433,"date":"2022-03-15T16:51:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T20:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1382433"},"modified":"2022-03-15T16:51:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T20:51:15","slug":"zelensky-softens-armys-slaughtered-like-pigs-threat-to-russian-soldiers-if-you-surrender-we-will-treat-you-decently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zelensky-softens-armys-slaughtered-like-pigs-threat-to-russian-soldiers-if-you-surrender-we-will-treat-you-decently\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky Softens Army&#039;s &#039;Slaughtered Like Pigs&#039; Threat to Russian Soldiers: If You Surrender, We Will Treat You &#039;Decently&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fzelensky-softens-armys-slaughtered-like-pigs-threat-to-russian-soldiers-if-you-surrender-we-will-treat-you-decently%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1382433&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Russian soldiers fighting against his country to surrender in remarks Monday, promising that Ukraine would treat them \u201cdecently\u201d \u2013 a message at odds with Ukraine\u2019s Armed Forces declaring on Facebook that surrendering soldiers would be \u201cslaughtered like pigs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Page operators edited the threat on Facebook, posted on the official account of the\u00a0Command of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in early March, after observers noted that not allowing opposing soldiers to surrender without being killed is a <a href=\"https:\/\/casebook.icrc.org\/glossary\/surrender#:~:text=In%20international%20law%2C%20an%20isolated,perfidy%20and%20is%20therefore%20forbidden.\">violation<\/a> of international law. Facebook has since issued a statement saying it would allow calls to violence that normally violate its terms of service, but only in the context of support for Ukraine in the war with Russia.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Ukrainian social media accounts and state media outlets have since published images of alleged surrendering Russian soldiers, including most recently holding a press conference with five men identified as captured soldiers who effusively praised Ukrainian fighters and urged their countrymen to end the war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs before, the enemy is confused. They did not expect such resistance. They believed in their propaganda, which has been lying about us for decades,\u201d Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.net\/rubric-ato\/3429881-responsibility-for-war-crimes-of-russian-military-is-inevitable-zelensky.html\">said<\/a> in remarks Monday. \u201cThey still can\u2019t recollect themselves. But they have already begun to understand that they will not achieve anything by war.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Zelensky claimed Russian forces were \u201cone of the suppliers of equipment to our army,\u201d as Russian soldiers were abandoning their equipment in Ukraine to such a degree that they were actively arming the Ukrainians. Ukraine recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/03\/tanks-a-lot-ukraine-declares-spoils-of-war-tax-free\/\">revised<\/a> its tax code so citizens would not need to declare captured armored vehicles or other large-scale Russian military equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave you captured a Russian tank or armoured personnel carrier and are worried about how to declare it? Keep calm and continue to defend the Motherland!\u201d the\u00a0National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/03\/tanks-a-lot-ukraine-declares-spoils-of-war-tax-free\/\">announced<\/a> in early March.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in his remarks on Monday, Zelensky addressed Russian soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy should you die? What for?\u201d Zelensky asked them. \u201cI know that you want to survive. We hear your conversations in the intercepts, we hear what you really think about this senseless war, about this disgrace and about your state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI offer you a choice,\u201d he continued. \u201cOn behalf of the Ukrainian people, I give you a chance. Chance to survive. If you surrender to our forces, we will treat you the way people are supposed to be treated. As people, decently.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Zelensky offered Russian soldiers better treatment than in Russia and better treatment than what Russia offered captured Ukrainian soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky\u2019s offer to treat Russian soldiers \u201cdecently\u201d appears to be a pivot away from what Ukrainian social media accounts have offered the Russians in the past.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cFrom now on, there will be no more captured Russian artillerymen. No mercy, no \u2018please do not kill, I surrender\u2019 will not pass,\u201d the official account of the\u00a0Command of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/03\/ukrainian-forces-account-surrendering-russian-artillerymen-will-be-slaughtered-like-pigs\/\">posted<\/a> on Facebook in early March. The post threatened Russian soldiers would be \u201cslaughtered like pigs\u201d and referred to the Russians as \u201cworms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCall your mother one last time. Say you\u2019ll die soon, jackal,\u201d the post concluded. \u201cWe are not death, we are worse!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook post was modified to remove the references to not accepting surrender shortly after it began garnering attention. The International Criminal Court (ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordreference.com\/view\/10.1093\/oi\/authority.20110803095711667#:~:text=A%20war%20crime%20under%20the,an%20enemy%20who%20has%20surrendered.\">considers<\/a> denying quarter, or killing an enemy surrendering in good faith, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/israel-law-review\/article\/rule-of-surrender-in-international-humanitarian-law\/714B1EAB954811EB2907A046EA069504\">war crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s parent company \u201cMeta,\u201d Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/03\/11\/zucks-war-facebook-okays-calls-for-violence-against-russians\/\">revealed<\/a> last week, told its employees that calls for violence \u201csuch as \u2018death to the Russian invaders&#8217;\u201d that it would normally censor would now be allowed on its platforms, including both Facebook and Instagram. A company spokesperson explained, \u201cwe have temporarily made allowances for forms of political expression that would normally violate our rules like violent speech such as \u2018death to the Russian invaders.\u2019 We still won\u2019t allow credible calls for violence against Russian civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Facebook subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/03\/14\/zucks-war-facebook-says-you-can-call-for-death-of-russians-but-not-putin\/\">updated<\/a> its allowance of calls for violence to exclude calls for violence against Russian strongman Vladimir Putin specifically \u2013 notably after Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2022\/03\/04\/graham-calls-for-assassination-of-putin-you-need-to-take-this-guy-out-by-any-means-possible\/\">urged<\/a> Russians to assassinate their head of government.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian social media accounts have regularly posted photos of men that they claim are members of Russia\u2019s armed forces. Breitbart News could not independent verify the identity of any of the men in the photos.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Soldiers of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade captured two Russian occupiers, they were from 423rd Yampol Motorized Rifle Regiment, military unit 91701. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UJzypYXWmm\">pic.twitter.com\/UJzypYXWmm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Defence of Ukraine (@DefenceU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefenceU\/status\/1496812748059160583?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Monday, the Ukrainian state media site Ukrinform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.net\/rubric-ato\/3429700-captive-russian-conscripts-say-they-were-deceived-we-invaded-ukraine-like-fascists.html\">reported<\/a> that the government had organized a press conference featuring five men it claimed to be \u201ccaptured Russian conscripts.\u201d The men do not show any signs of overt injury in the photos published by the government outlet.<\/p>\n<p>In the quotes shared by Ukrinform, the soldiers claim their government \u201cdeceived\u201d them and extensively praise their captors.<\/p>\n<p>We were taken prisoner near the city of Sumy. I thought that we would be beaten, humiliated, given no food or water in captivity,\u201d one of the men, identified as \u201cPrivate First Class Alexander Morozov,\u201d allegedly said. \u201cAs a result, it turned out the opposite: we were given food, water, we had a place to sleep, we were given warm clothes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to protect their country. We broke into their house like fascists. Not knowing the purpose, tasks. We are just being killed,\u201d another one of the men, identified as \u201cPrivate First Class Nikolay Polshchykov,\u201d was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and has illegally occupied its Crimea region since. In late February, Putin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/02\/21\/ukraine-completely-created-russia-putin-recognizes-sovereignty-pro-russian-separatists\/\">announced<\/a> he would greatly expand military operations into the rest of Ukraine and recognize pro-Russian separatist groups as the governments of two sovereign \u201cstates\u201d in western Ukraine, Donetsk and Luhansk. The Russian military has engaged in ongoing combat targeting major Ukrainian cities since, including the capital, Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>In announcing the operation, Putin declared that Ukraine as a state \u201cwas completely created by Russia\u201d and has \u201cno tradition\u201d of sovereignty.\u201d Other Russian officials have justified the attack by calling Zelensky a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2022\/03\/03\/russian-fm-sergey-lavrov-ukraines-zelensky-a-neo-nazi-president\/\">neo-Nazi<\/a>\u201d and calling the war a \u201cde-Nazifying\u201d operation. Zelensky has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/24\/how-can-i-be-a-nazi-zelenskyys-direct-appeal-to-russians-before-ukraine-attack\/\">denied<\/a> the accusation, noting that he is Jewish and lost family in the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1646741052292000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3Jkadm_idMfRvYD7Dxb3RK\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1646741052292000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0YtInSFC5lkse_UNb1Eg2K\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Russian soldiers fighting against his country to surrender in remarks Monday, promising that Ukraine would treat them \u201cdecently\u201d \u2013 a message at odds with Ukraine\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1382433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}