Russian soldiers were filmed looking visibly terrified as they received bravery medals from a government official.
The wounded troops looked startled as they lay prone in bed or sat in wheelchairs having been injured in the invasion of Ukraine.
Russian deputy defence minister Alexander Fomin hailed their war efforts and declared "I serve Russia " as he greeted each of them.
Many of the troops were missing limbs, presumably having lost them in combat, and looked full of despair.
Footage broadcast by the Kremlin -controlled Channel One showed Fomin awarding each of the soldiers a medal.
"You all carried out the orders assigned to you, you all gave one hundred percent," he said.
"Like real men, like real soldiers, you continued the glorious military traditions of our grandfathers and fathers."
In a separate clip Russian defence minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov was seen standing over a young troop who looks wide-eyed and startled.
"I hope you'll get back on your feet," he told the soldier, who managed just a few words in response to questions which followed.
Although the exact number of fatalities on either side is difficult to work out, a high Ukrainian estimate has put the number of Russian deaths during the war at 16,000.
There have been numerous reports of morale dropping among the Russian forces since the country invaded on February 24.
Some soldiers claimed that they were unaware they were heading for all out war, instead suggesting that they thought they were headed on a training exercise.
The country is now littered with the bodies of Russian soldiers and conscripts, many of them teenagers, and the burnt out remains of tanks and armoured vehicles.
The miserable state of the war, which is being waged in the Ukrainian winter, has led some Russian soldiers towards mutiny.
It was reported last week that one troop drove a tank at his commanding officer, Colonel Yuri Medvedev, who was hospitalised with severe leg injuries.
A Russian soldier swapped sides and handed over a tank to his opponents for £7,500 and Ukrainian citizenship, it is claimed.
The soldier, named as 'Misha', was said by Ukraine to have signalled his surrender with a white flag and pleaded to join opposing fighters after his Russian army colleagues fled home and his military boss threatened to shoot him.
Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs, Victor Andrusiv, posted on Facebook to say the soldier saw “no point in further fighting” and was terrified to return to his home country.
