odanny
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This guy has balls, speaking out on the deplorable conditions the Russian Army is facing.
Filatyev opened his diary — written in plain prose sprinkled with eye-watering Russian profanities and military jargon — by sarcastically remarking that it was a shame that journalists were not allowed to visit soldiers on the front lines.
“Because of that the entire nation has been denied the pleasure of admiring unshaven, unwashed, filthy, emaciated paratroopers who are angry either at the stubborn Ukrainians who are refusing to denazify themselves,” he wrote, “or at their own talentless commanders who are incapable of equipping them even in wartime.”
Filatyev claimed that half of his comrades would change into and wear Ukrainian uniforms because they were made of higher-quality fabric and were more comfortable than their Russian-made fatigues.
Filatyev — a second-generation paratrooper — said he arrived at a training camp in Crimea less than two weeks before the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine to find his entire squadron made up of 40 people having to share a single tent equipped with just one camp stove.
“Even in Chechnya, where we lived in tents or mud huts, our living conditions were organized better,” he recounted. “Here we had nowhere to wash up … for those who arrived later than the rest, me and about five other people, there was neither a sleeping bag, nor camouflage, armor, or helmets left.”
Filatyev wrote that when he was issued his service rifle, it was rusty, had a broken belt and kept getting jammed after firing, forcing him to spend hours cleaning it with oil just to get it to work.
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Filatyev opened his diary — written in plain prose sprinkled with eye-watering Russian profanities and military jargon — by sarcastically remarking that it was a shame that journalists were not allowed to visit soldiers on the front lines.
“Because of that the entire nation has been denied the pleasure of admiring unshaven, unwashed, filthy, emaciated paratroopers who are angry either at the stubborn Ukrainians who are refusing to denazify themselves,” he wrote, “or at their own talentless commanders who are incapable of equipping them even in wartime.”
Filatyev claimed that half of his comrades would change into and wear Ukrainian uniforms because they were made of higher-quality fabric and were more comfortable than their Russian-made fatigues.
Filatyev — a second-generation paratrooper — said he arrived at a training camp in Crimea less than two weeks before the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine to find his entire squadron made up of 40 people having to share a single tent equipped with just one camp stove.
“Even in Chechnya, where we lived in tents or mud huts, our living conditions were organized better,” he recounted. “Here we had nowhere to wash up … for those who arrived later than the rest, me and about five other people, there was neither a sleeping bag, nor camouflage, armor, or helmets left.”
Filatyev wrote that when he was issued his service rifle, it was rusty, had a broken belt and kept getting jammed after firing, forcing him to spend hours cleaning it with oil just to get it to work.
Russian paratrooper’s bombshell diary exposes chaos in Ukraine
Russian paratrooper Pavel Filatyev has published a 141-page memoir documenting his harrowing experiences fighting in Ukraine. His journal describes the Russian army being in disarray and lacking ba…
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