Posted on 08/06/2023 9:25:08 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
One senior officer who is apart of reconnaissance unit told him he was give ten armoured vehicles for his soldiers.
Of these only five were road worthy, while the other five were not fit for purpose - meaning 50 percent of his equipment could not be used. The officer said that no maintenance or repair work had been carried out prior to his arrival, nor had they since received deliveries of spare parts or new equipment.
Mr Gulyaev blamed rampant corruption among Russia's military bosses and political leaders for the army's disfunction and disarray.
"Prigozhin, Gerasimov and Shoigu have been stealing money and screwing the military and of course Putin gets his cut," he explained.
...In Afghanistan, the Soviet army had around 110,000 troops fighting against small groups of partisans, he explained.
The Soviets enjoyed the full support of the government and its security forces as well as the majority of local leaders and communities. Yet despite these advantages, they could not prevail, losing some 15,000 soldiers during ten years of combat.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
Not even scraps make it to the end user.
All those mega-yachts and mega-palaces cost something. So each time you pass money down for bridges, streets, tanks or artillery...a large chunk of the money went to personal pleasures.
The sad thing is that they’ve burned through the new stuff from the past thirty years, and gone to 1960s/1970s equipment. When the war ends...a total rebuild is required, and more mega-yacht money will be created. It’ll take fifty years to rebuild to 2020 standards.
Just a few more billions in aid and the Ukraine is assured victory. Is anyone here interested in buying a bidge?
Just like WWI....
“By the second winter, the boots had worn out... but the line still held. Even Comrade Lenin underestimated both the anguish of that 900-mile long front... as well our own cursed capacity for suffering. Half the men went into action without any arms... irregular rations... led by officers they didn’t trust.” - Yevgraf Zhivago
Biden Propaganda, delivered by the least of us.
This is good news! It’s clear that Russia is losing and we can stop giving Ukraine money and military aid then, right?
“with 50 percent of equipment unusable”
Well, that explains the FANTASTIC GAINS by Ukraine in there 2 month plus ‘counteroffensive’. It’s GREAT to see that Russia is now cut-off from Crimea!
yep
Ukraine propaganda
You mean Moscow hasn’t fallen to the Ukies yet? Was I lied to?
A pox on all the sides involved. And there are a lot more than two.
In the place of your usual BS, here is a guy that was very knowledgeable on Mother Russia.
“We know they are lying, they know they are lying,
they know we know they are lying,
we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.”
You should read him sometime.
Try this work:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russia’s winning!
No, Russia’s losing!
Ukraine is winning!
No, Ukraine is losing!
If only there was a candidate who wants people to stop dying.
Wake me up when the shooting stops. Till then, I’m praying that people will stop dying.
Title is a little misleading in that it makes out like this applies to ALL Russian equipment.
It's possible it does, but this story is about one unit.
Yup, level of corruption in russia is insane.
Fraudulent Contracts for Peter the Great Cruiser Overhaul-November 26, 2020
One of the most remarkable cases, though far from the largest, is that of the repair contract for the Pyotr Veliky (“Peter the Great”) guided missile cruiser. Investigations by military prosecutors revealed the deal to be not just corrupt, but fake from beginning to end.
First of all, the company itself, Zvezdochka, turned out to be a shell company that was impersonating the real Zvezdochka ship repair yard, which specializes in the modernization and repair of nuclear and diesel submarines. The fake Zvezdochka that won the contract and received the funds did not even have proper permits from the Russian state atomic energy corporation, Rosatom, to repair the nuclear reactor on the cruiser. The doppelganger shell company had, nonetheless, been winning contracts to “repair” the reactors of nuclear submarines for years, despite not having any suitable facilities for carrying out such work.
Unsurprisingly, and perhaps fortunately, the supposed repair work was never carried out—and, it turned out, was never necessary in the first place.
A large proportion of fake-Zvezdochka’s employees were relatives of the company’s Director, and received large salaries and bonuses paid for by Russian state defense procurement orders, presumably for no actual work.
How a company that did not actually do any work was able to continue winning contracts for so long is not entirely clear, but Chief Military Prosecutor Sergei Fridinskiy hinted that it is likely that the Ministry of Defense officials that covered this scheme, by signing the contracts and approving fraudulent reports about fulfilled work, also benefited.
https://corruption-tracker.org/case/fraudulent-contracts-for-peter-the-great-cruiser-overhaul
That's great news, if true. The the combined West can stop sending so much materiel and cash amd just wait for the Ruskies to collapse. Time will tell.
The Swamp in the Kremlin is destroying it all for the Russian people. It’s becoming a 3rd world country at the speed of light.
If only there was a candidate who wants people to stop dying.
Wake me up when the shooting stops. Till then, I’m praying that people will stop dying.
Agree with you, I am watching but want people to stop dying for a useless war. Soros, Bidens, Putin, Kremlin, and profiteers are the problem.
And how is OUR military doing? Has training been cut as under Hussein? Are we still having to repair equipment by using spare parts?
Didn’t I tell you that the days of Neocon wars are over?
Well down in the article is this quote:
For the year 2021, only 421 pieces of new equipment were delivered to the entire Russian army across its three branches - the infantry, the airforce and the navy.
To all those complaining about Ukrainian corruption, this article tells where it came from.
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