Russian soldier ‘says commander shot himself in leg to get out of Ukraine’

Seems extreme. Next time just tell them you have bone spurs. I hear that works a treat.

That happens in War, some folks will do anything to get out.
I wonder in ancient times if they impaled themselves, that would have to hurt more than a bullet because what goes in must come out. A bullet that close will do both in an instant.

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
"A Russian soldier allegedly told his mother that his commander shot himself in the leg to get out of the war in Ukraine, according to an audio recording of the phone call intercepted by Ukrainian officials.

The Ukrainian defence ministry’s Main Intelligence Directory published the recordings on Saturday. In the call, a man who identified himself as Nikita, could be heard complaining to his mother about the war in the European nation.

“This Ukraine does not interest me at all. I need to come back and quit,” he could be heard saying, according to a translation by Business Insider.

“Mom, the commander of my battery of the second platoon shot himself in the leg to get out of here, in the very beginning! What are we even talking about here? And he served in Chechnya.”...