17-10-2022, 02:05 PM
"A comrade of the Chelyabinsk men who survived an overwhelming Ukrainian assault called a friend and described what happened, according to the transcript of a phone call published by BBC News Russian. He said he had been given no training. When he fled, he said, corpses lay everywhere.
“We got there the first day, having never fired a shot, and they sent us, like meat, straight to an assault unit, with two grenade launchers. I had at least read the instructions on how to use them.”
By Day 3, the soldier and his comrades were in frontline trenches.
Almost daily, videos surface on Russian social media of conscripted soldiers, angry because they have not been given decent uniforms, weapons, training or quarters."
It wouldn't be too surprising, if a large number of those conscripted in this way simply surrender to the Ukrainian troops, rather than fight them.
“We got there the first day, having never fired a shot, and they sent us, like meat, straight to an assault unit, with two grenade launchers. I had at least read the instructions on how to use them.”
By Day 3, the soldier and his comrades were in frontline trenches.
Almost daily, videos surface on Russian social media of conscripted soldiers, angry because they have not been given decent uniforms, weapons, training or quarters."
It wouldn't be too surprising, if a large number of those conscripted in this way simply surrender to the Ukrainian troops, rather than fight them.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)