Ben Hodges: No Future for Putin and the Russian Army After the Coup! Where is Yevgeny Prigojin?
Infinity
423K subscribers
7-2-2023 8:30 a.m. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSXvq1eZyyM
Russian Soldiers Who Do Not Want to Fight Drop Weapons!
The Pioneer
329K subscribers
Jul 2, 2023 1:30 p.m.. EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxGfg8D6ZsU
An army full of soldiers who do not want to fight and do not believe in victory cannot succeed. Because success can only be achieved through faith. The Russian army, which is thought to have over 3 million soldiers with its reserve personnel, is one of the largest armies in the world in terms of the number of soldiers. However, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it has become clear that the strength of armies cannot be measured only by the number of soldiers.
Ten soldiers who believe in victory and are determined are stronger than 100 reluctant and faithless soldiers who don’t know what they are fighting for. When Russian leader Vladimir Putin began his invasion of Ukraine, he did not have the support of the Russian people.
Therefore, Putin faced many problems within the army throughout the war. The majority of Russian soldiers did not want to take part in the invasion of Ukraine. Because they found this war meaningless. Young people who were old enough for military service organized protests to avoid joining the army.
Military recruitment centers were set on fire. Despite all this, Putin did not give up on the occupation of Ukraine. Putin’s stubborn refusal to give up the occupation is causing Russian soldiers to lay down their arms! Since the beginning of the occupation of Ukraine, the number of Russian soldiers leaving the front line has been steadily increasing. So much so that Putin acknowledged this fact in September 2022 and declared a partial mobilization.
However, even this mobilization declaration could not overcome the shortage of military personnel in the Russian army. Because in the face of the failures in the war, Russian soldiers have chosen to surrender to Ukrainian troops or leave the front line.
Recently, the testimonies of Russian soldiers who claim to belong to the Storm Troop became a hot topic on social media. About 20 Russian soldiers, through a spokesperson they chose among themselves, expressed the problems in the Russian army and announced their refusal to fight! Because the soldiers’ losses and problems were increasing day by day. So much so that the spokesperson soldier in the video, pointing to about 20 soldiers, said: “Initially, upon arriving to the SMO [special military operation] zone, we had 150 people. After brutal fights, this is all what’s left us.”
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Defence forces advance on Bakhmut’s flanks, some units operate in the city
KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO
Sunday, 2 July 2023, 16:47
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/07/2/7409527/
Defence forces are advancing on the southern and northern flanks around Bakhmut, and Ukrainian sniper groups and “some other units” are operating in the city itself.
SOURCE: Serhii Cherevatyi, spokesperson for the East Grouping of Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, during the national joint 24/7 newscast
QUOTE: “There are no inside city intensive battles there [in Bakhmut – ed.], our sniper groups and some other units operate there, about which we can say something later. The massive onslaught continues on the southern and northern flanks around the city.
We’re advancing there. When we verify it, we will confirm it – we will tell you the details.”
DETAILS: According to Cherevatyi, the defence forces seized the initiative on the Bakhmut front.
“If the enemy attacked us for 10 months, now we are pressuring the enemy, but we are pressuring with completely opposite tactics – we are using all the achievements of domestic and world military science, unmanned aerial vehicles, reconnaissance, high-precision systems to destroy the enemy, to break through passages in minefields. And step by step, without emergency actions that can lead to heavy losses, we are advancing. And in principle, we are fulfilling the set tasks of assault on the enemy,” he said.
The spokesman also said that last week on the Bakhmut front, the Ukrainian military were taking prisoners almost daily.
“The previous week was full of captures, in fact, prisoners were taken. This day is unremarkable – only 1 prisoner, but there were also 8-10 prisoners per day. These are different types of units, both of the enemy’s regular army and veterans of the [Wagner] private company that included people with a criminal past,” Cherevatyi said.
According to him, the convicts are mainly people who are not highly educated and of a low social status.
“We did not see highly motivated or highly trained specialists among them,” the spokesman added.