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Russia has been loading up its front lines with troops from the poorest and most remote regions of Russia. The Tuvans in the image above are equipped with cheap rubber boots to face winter conditions in Ukraine. Ethnic minorities like the Tuvans and the Buryats are more expendable to Putin than ethnic Russians from places like Moscow and St Petersburg. Ukrainian intelligence reports that Russian troops from Buryatia deployed near Kherson, had been becoming increasingly resentful of the Kadyrite Chechens.
Things came to a head when the Chechens decided to keep all the loot to themselves. The Buryats decided to do a forcible redistribution and a 50 a side firefight ensued. No news on casualties yet. An army that leaves behind its wounded but never leaves behind it’s loot is not a unified fighting force.
In addition to cannon fodder from remote corners of Russia, The Russian military is rounding up and forcibly conscripting males from the separatist regions of Ukraine to toss into the meat grinder. These troops are under-trained, under-equipped and are terrified and the opposite of motivated to fight.
Reports of mutinies are multiplying. Russian Colonel Yuri Medvedev was run over by a tank and killed at the hands of his own brigade. 60 Russian paratroopers sent to Belarus to deploy to Ukraine staged a mutiny and refused to be deployed.
Intercepted phone calls of Russian soldiers paint a picture of troops that hate their officers and are despondent and hopeless about their future.
They don't send their best and their brightest.
Things came to a head when the Chechens decided to keep all the loot to themselves. The Buryats decided to do a forcible redistribution and a 50 a side firefight ensued. No news on casualties yet. An army that leaves behind its wounded but never leaves behind it’s loot is not a unified fighting force.
In addition to cannon fodder from remote corners of Russia, The Russian military is rounding up and forcibly conscripting males from the separatist regions of Ukraine to toss into the meat grinder. These troops are under-trained, under-equipped and are terrified and the opposite of motivated to fight.
Reports of mutinies are multiplying. Russian Colonel Yuri Medvedev was run over by a tank and killed at the hands of his own brigade. 60 Russian paratroopers sent to Belarus to deploy to Ukraine staged a mutiny and refused to be deployed.
Intercepted phone calls of Russian soldiers paint a picture of troops that hate their officers and are despondent and hopeless about their future.
Russian Army Self-Destructing: Firefight breaks out between Russian Units Over Loot
Russia has been loading up its front lines with troops from the poorest and most remote regions of Russia. The Tuvans in the image above are equipped with cheap rubber boots to face winter conditions in Ukraine. Ethnic minorities like the Tuvans and...
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They don't send their best and their brightest.
