Russia Sends Ill-Trained Draftees Into Combat Amid Losses, Analysts Say

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4. This time, it's even cruder than that.

Send the troops in. Order them to hold a line. Abandon them.

Lose most of them, and report home that the troops are alive and well.

Within 40 minutes of being dumped on the battlefield, she said, the leadership had failed to return, shelling started, and “battles went on for three days.”

“They didn’t sleep, didn’t eat, and for three days held the line and didn’t run away unlike the command,” she said.

“They tell us over the phone that our sons are alive and healthy, and even fulfilling their military duty. How the hell are they alive and healthy when they were all killed there?” the mother of another soldier told Verstka.

Of a 570 man battalion, 500 were killed. Only 12 got out without serious wounds.

https://news.yahoo.com/command-fled-putin-own-troops-092553394.html