Russian soldiers ready to kill generals that order them to fight, says Ukrainian intel

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has obtained evidence a Russian district commander fled the front line after the contract soldiers under his command threatened to kill him rather than continue fighting.

SBU claims to have intercepted a conversation between a Russian military contractor and his wife which describes a tense standoff between soldiers who refused orders to fight and Lt. Gen. Valery Solodchuk, the district commander, who arrived with bodyguards to force them into line, which it posted to Facebook.

One “rejector” pulled the pin from a grenade after Solodchuk threatened the group with a gun, saying “we’ll blow up together here, reports Radio Poland.

"We have almost the entire battery refusing to fight. He [the general - ed.] began to wave the barrel, shoot: ‘I, he says, will kill you if you, do not f*ing go there! ... ‘ That was that. Here's a kid: ‘Go on, he says, kill us!’ F*ck, he got a grenade, pulled a pin out and says: ‘Come on, shoot me! He says, let's explode here together, he says,’” says the caller.

Solodchuk’s bodyguards and the mutinous soldiers both raised their guns and took aim at each other.

“We almost shot each other,” the soldier told his wife, according to Polish news site Kresy24.pl.

The contractor also describes on the call how only 215 people of the original 600 remain, as the others have been killed or wounded.

This may only be the beginning between the Russian army and its military contractors because many signed three-month contracts that expire at the end of May, reports Ukrainska Pravda.

Other reported incidents of Russian troops retaliating against authorities including how a tank driver ran over his commander, blaming him for the death of his friends in a disastrous operation near Kyiv.