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Related: About this forumRussian soldiers complain they got 1 session of shooting-training before being sent to frontline.
Last edited Thu Oct 13, 2022, 09:35 AM - Edit history (1)
There is a clip of russian soldiers stationed in Svatove.
They were mobilized 11 days ago in Moscow.
They got 1 session of shooting with life ammunition. Went through 3 cartridges.
Now they are in Svatove, a critical city in the Luhansk-oblast that Russia must hold at any cost if they want to stop the ukrainian advance.
And each of them has 3 cartridges of armour-piercing bullets.
I think these guys would rather be anywhere else than in Putin's war right now.
And I think, Russia sacrificing green troops as speed-bumbs for Ukraine's advance is further evidence that Russia ACTUALLY cares more about the southern front: Kherson and Crimea.
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Russian soldiers complain they got 1 session of shooting-training before being sent to frontline. (Original Post)
DetlefK
Oct 2022
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Botany
(77,595 posts)1. Svatove is less then 100 miles the the Russian border and it is being defended by green troops
... w/3 rounds each of armour-piercing bullets and they are up against seasoned and well
supplied Ukrainian troops along with combat vets international volunteers?
They have 4 choices kill their officers and surrender, die where they stand, or go back to Russia
and join a nation wide uprising against Putin, or killing themselves.
Lovie777
(23,275 posts)2. sacrificial lambs ......
What say you Russia that your supreme leader sacrifices your sons, fathers, uncles, relatives, friends, neighbors, fellow Russians for bullshit of an narcissist asshole.
BeyondGeography
(41,171 posts)3. Insane
I wouldnt expect anything less.
Ferrets are Cool
(23,002 posts)4. Doesn't take a lot of training to become cannon fodder.
The Unmitigated Gall
(4,710 posts)5. And the troops there before them raped and tortured children.
Theyre coming for you, greenie.
You wont even make a decent speed bump.