Ukrainian defenders caused such losses to Russian occupiers that they cannot continue the war without involving conscripts.

This is evidenced by new telephone conversations of invaders intercepted by the SSU.

‘You have to work through the prosecutor’s office. I know that they take conscripts back through the prosecutor’s office. They even came to me shaking ‘Let me call dad. He… will deal with it, they will send me back...’ a Russian conscript tells his mum.

He is looking for ways to go home. ‘Thing is, our local prosecutor’s office is just rotten, dammit’ his mother remarks.

The son agrees: ‘Yes, you’re right… Here, conscripts were taken for a ‘show’, it seems. But they left some of them. One of them was ‘thrown into battle’: he was at the frontline two times, in tough situations… So, he was shaking after that, but they left him here anyway…’

Probably, Russian parents especially cannot understand why their children fight in Ukraine as the Kremlin officially emphasized on several occasions that ‘there are none of them there.’