Since Russia has frequent “troubles” with the Caucuses, it’s sort of a win-win to use them as cannon fodder. You get to throw troops that actual Russians don’t care about into the meat grinder, and you reduce the “military age male” population of these problematic regions.
Russians don’t care about
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Not only not care about, but their arrival as 200s will not be counted in any Orc official combat loss statistics.