Russian soldiers filmed conditions in eastern Ukraine to complain. “More than 90 percent have no combat experience and have seen a Kalashnikov for the first time. We were hurled to the front line.”
While Russia’s first large-scale offensive has not yielded any appreciable success, Russian forces can claim at least some territorial conquest after tactical concentration on eastern Ukraine.
Thus, the Russian troops made significant progress in the battle for Sieverodonetsk. They now control most of the city, Luhansk governor said Thursday.
Russia pays a high price for territorial gains in the East
But of course this gain in territory comes at a high price. The number of dead and wounded is also increasing on the Russian side. Exhaustion has now led some soldiers to express their despair and discontent, despite the threat of reprisals.
hunger and cold
“Our personnel are facing hunger and cold,” fighters of the 113th Regiment in Donetsk said in a video. “For a long time we had no equipment, no medicines or food aid.” The long service at the front exhausted the soldiers to the core. Many questions and concerns, including health issues, are ignored by the headquarters superiors.
The lack of support would have even prompted a soldier to hire a lawyer. However, he couldn’t do much. After all, the general was allowed to keep him as a soldier in the regiment until his contract expires, the British ‘Guardian’ quoted a soldier. “I have been fighting in Ukraine since the beginning of the war. That’s now more than three months.”
Soldiers without military training
According to the Guardian, Russia would send the soldiers into battle, especially in the separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, even without military training. “Our mobilization was illegal, with no medical certification,” another soldier complained in a video. 70 percent of the soldiers on the ground had previously retired because they were physically unable to fight. “More than 90 percent have no combat experience and have seen a Kalashnikov for the first time. We were thrown to the front,” said a soldier of the 107th regiment in Donetsk.
Source: Krone
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