Certainly the portrait we would expect THE KYIV INDEPENDENT to paint.
Yep....Pure propaganda.
Pooty is using conscripts from Siberia who are considered expendable, not educated young men from Moscow who are the cream of the police state.
Russia won already you idiot.
Imagine American soldiers going to war, without being told they are going to war.
Probably Putin's idea. Operational security in overdrive.
They should at least have been told war was a distinct possibility...
FROM THE ARTICLE: “...the BBC has identified over 3,000 Russian casualties, based on open-source data. Of these, the biggest losses hit the regions of Buryatia, Dagestan, Volgograd, Bashkortostan, Orenburg, Krasnodar, Chelyabinsk and North Ossetia, many of which sit along Russia’s southern border, as well as its eastern reaches...”
So, we have European Russians fighting from places like Volgograd-formerly Stalingrad and Krasnodar but also from the Mohammedan areas and the far east. There are countless stories of their ruthless treatment of Ukrainian civilians and their looting.
The Ukraine would be far better off in “understanding THEIR President Zelensky.” And doing everything they can to shut him up and get him to the table.
Apparently, their biggest target are toilet bowls.
They are stealing them everywhere they can.
All the areas freed from Russians are full of excrements. They just poop everywhere.
“… Many of the soldiers are dirt-poor and badly educated, with many growing up without access to modern amenities. Many joined the armed forces because they have no future in their backwater towns….”
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Damn… what do you know…. they’re a bunch of deplorables from flyover country. That explains why Hillary hates Russia, Russia, Russia so much.