Lots of Russian VDV being taken prisoner on the flanks of Bakhmut over the past week.
“Lots of Russian VDV being taken prisoner on the flanks of Bakhmut over the past week.
Seeing that in the videos. They don’t want to fight til death like Wagnerites.
“Lots of Russian VDV being taken prisoner on the flanks of Bakhmut over the past week.”
Probably not our fathers’ VDV anymore - just a bunch of green mobniks like everywhere else.
The Operational Plan for the counteroffensive better prepare to house and feed a lot POWs.
As with many factors the will to fight will be key to a Ukrainian successful counter attack and campaign to free Ukraine.
Numbers mean little without will to fight, the Iraqi army was large and equipped with many modern weapons, but they crumbled. Was it the superior forces arrayed against them, yes in part but the real straw was that the average Iraqi soldier did not want to die for saddam
The professional ranks have been thinned, the dedicated to the “cause” soldiers have been thinned. Many fight because their alternatives are stay put and die retreat and be killed or go forward and maybe survive for another day.
How many of these Russian conscripts and mobiks will fight especially when the officers have fled, , that is the question