Nothing to see here, the red army just gets a lot of vacation days. And they don’t have a lot of room to store their rifles, rpg’s, APC’s and artillery so the soldiers usually take them home with them.
"They don't need me right now."
Of COURSE there is “Russian Involvement”, the Rebels are Ethnic Russians.
There are public recruiting offices for the Republic’s in almost every Major Russian city. While most of the Independent groups have been absorbed into the DNR and LNR forces, there are still a couple of groups, like “Vostok”, that maintain their own recruiting systems, as well.
That said, it’s still almost 2-1 locals vs, fighters from Russia.
What’s of more interest to me are the 4-6 Americans now fighting for the Rebels. One is a nutjob communist from Austin, that goes by “Tex”, that has been there a while, and saw the hardest of the fighting at Debaltsevo.
Another is a Boston-born Russian.
There is one American there with the code-name “Micheal”, that supposedly came in with some ex-Italian Army guys a couple of months ago, as well.
Russian Media has been interviewing the Americans fighting for the rebels. This “Tex” guy though, has obviously volunteered for some Russian propaganda stuff, recently.
The videos are on Youtube.