Posted on 10/08/2022 7:21:34 PM PDT by Salohcin
Recently mobilized Russian soldiers are decrying "inhumane" conditions, weapons shortages and mistreatment by officers, according to video published by the independent news website The Insider on Wednesday.
Footage of new recruits sleeping on the floor, being armed with outdated rifles and ordered to source their own supplies appeared almost immediately after President Vladimir Putin announced a “partial” mobilization last month.
Around 500 troops gathered in western Russia’s Belgorod region near the Ukrainian border with no training and no knowledge of where they were being deployed, the latest video’s authors said.
“Nobody needs us,” a voice behind the camera, flanked by uniformed soldiers on a train platform, can be heard saying.
“We’ve lived in animal conditions for a week,” the voice said, adding that the soldiers had received no material support or financial compensation since being called up.
“We’ve spent an absurd amount of money just to feed ourselves, not to mention on ammunition.”
The Insider reported earlier that the soldiers’ wives were forced to spend as much as $2,500 on equipping their husbands. A website set up to answer questions on mobilization states that requiring soldiers to buy their own equipment is illegal. The same website encourages soldiers to bring their own night vision goggles and drones to the battlefield.
It was not clear where the mobilized soldiers depicted in the video were ultimately deployed.
Yury Shvytkin, deputy chairman of the State Duma's Defense Committee, said Thursday that he had asked the military prosecutor's office and the Investigative Committee to investigate the incident.
Western military analysts have predicted that the Kremlin’s rush to deploy new recruits to the frontlines would result in high death rates, troop unreliability and low morale.
Several recruits were reported to have died before deployment.
Um; anyone ever heard of American boot camp?
My God! Is everyone a woke pussy these days? War is tough. It’s hard and dehumanizing. The sooner the young people prepare for that level of hardship the better.
Having said that; Russia should be able to outfit the wannabe soldiers with weapons and uniforms at the very least but there have been many wars fought with civilian recruits using their own weapons.
Take the American Revolutionary War as one example.
The Russians treat their troops as cannon fodder. You can read all about World War II.
Sounds like the Ukrainian army when they got in the battlefield.
Yes, I’ve been through it. We were supplied with food and equipment and not forced to buy it ourselves. Are you really comparing the state of readiness of the ‘modern’ 21st century Russian army to that of a 18th century insurgency?
“We’re in the Army now.
We’re not behind a plow.
We’ll never get rich diggin’ a ditch.
We’re in the Army now….”
I think you find the same with Ukrainian military from the reports that were coming from foreign fighters with them.
Are you admitting that the Russian army is not qualitatively superior to the Ukrainian army?
They also had communist party military police that would shoot deserters that left the front
Ukraine cancelled it's autumn conscription. Apparently they have enough volunteers.
What I remember about boot camp were the things that it improved in my life. better and more plentiful food, a bunk with a mattress and blankets, free clothes, laundry service, good camping gear, plenty of firing of weapons of all kinds, excellent training at Tigerland, and in general, comfortable wooden barracks with a heater, drill sergeants fresh from combat and who cared, a system and structure that was easy to understand and master.
I don’t think the Russians are running into that.
Fraggings are next.
I’m certain if social media was a thing in the ‘40s, we’d be reading the same articles about the horrible conditions in the US Army. They say “War is Hell” for a reason.
Yeah, they’re called American soldiers.
I'm saying you make do with what you have and do your best. Russia should be better prepared; especially since the more or less started this conflict.
Yes. But the Russians are way worse.
They are going back to the glory days of Stalins Red Army, and maybe the Tsarist armies.
“Recruits” isn’t the word I would use to describe these guys.
Not in the way Americans have come to understand “recruits”.
Another curious dynamic Army psychologists discovered is something they called ‘’momism’’.
So many of these young recruits were so coddled by their mothers they were initially resentful, even hostile at all the rules and regulations and the fact that their mothers weren't there to wait on them hand and foot.
They sleep in filthy smelly pigsties.
Drunk / hangover to the gills on vodka to dull the pain
and fear. Even including elite VDV, Spetznaz.
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