Posted on 09/04/2022 11:09:59 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence said in an intelligence update on Sunday that Russian forces in Ukraine have likely not received combat bonuses, hampering morale.
“Russian forces continue to suffer from morale and discipline issues in Ukraine,” the ministry said in a Twitter thread. “In addition to combat fatigue and high casualties, one of the main grievances from deployed Russian soldiers probably continues to be problems with their pay.”
It said that Russian troops receive a modest salary and a variety of bonuses and allowances, noting the combat bonuses have not been paid since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine.
“This is probably due to inefficient military bureaucracy, the unusual legal status of the ‘special military operation’, and at least some outright corruption amongst commanders,” the ministry said.
It added that Russia’s military has failed to provide deployed troops with “basic entitlements” such as appropriate uniforms, arms and rations, contributing to the military’s current “fragile morale.”
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For the longest time the Clinton administration resisted awarding CIBs and combat patches to soldiers in Somalia because Clinton wanted to preserve the illusion that our soldiers weren’t engaging in combat...at least until his pollsters discovered there was much to lose by not presenting the MOH to the families of Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart.
The Russian male population is passive compliant at this point. They will just roll over and shrug their shoulders. The Russian bloodlines with guts were killed off long ago.
We’re just left Russian keyboard commandoes like our Putin supporting friends on this thread.
You can always tell a poser. They have not one original thought in their indoctrinated head that supports their positions. They love repeating others ideas they’re pretending to be like. People see right through your thin facade.
I’m sorry that your Kommissar forces you to respond to my postings. Perhaps one day you will be free to post your own thoughts.
Wait a minute. They “likely” and “probably” haven’t been paid?? If the author don’t actually know, the article is worthless.
Those bonuses could be used to pay for more recruits or N. Korean death-wish troops, so, why waste the money?
No as in Bond, James Bond!
Thanks for validating my point.
Likewise
at least some outright corruption amongst commanders,
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Some? In a country where corruption is a way of life. Some? Where a US$10,000 Russian-made drone is sold to the RGF for US$100,000? Some?
Has it occurred to the folks that post articles about Ukraine and Russia that a very very strong majority of the people on FR …. DO NOT GIVE A F*^*v
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So you are saying that they/we support the invasion of Ukraine and the slaughter of thousands of civilians, a legions of war crimes, and the abduction of children? Just because most have swallowed the incessant Russian propaganda on FR about globalists and corrupt Ukraine government ...
without understanding that neither the Ukrainian government nor the UA High command do diddly for the people or the troops?
That the government has done more to harm the country than the Russian have?
That the UA troops do not fight for either the High Command or the government? That they fight for their homes, their families, their right of self determination and independence from a morally bankrupt, cruel and evil invader? Are you saying the the people on FR that morally bankrupt themselves?
Or is quz123 just one more Russian propagandist and fellow traveler?
UK Intelligence? Is that the same group of geniuses who planned the two failed “commando raids” on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
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A raid that never took place? that one?
That also, propagandist.
Russian proponga about Ukraine
VP Biden extorting the Ukrainians
State Dept offices si referring with Ukrainian elections to make sure Zelensky is elected.
Atrocities and war crimes but the Russian but we have to ignore the ones committed by Zelensky and the Azov Battalion
Information on Hunters laptop admitting to the meetings and money laundering.
And this entire thing would be over, no
Lore suffering or whatever, if it weren’t for the US and NATO prolonging that very same suffering and destruction
So your ok with the US and NATO using the Ukrainian people as political pawns in their proxy war?
And which is. One article tells of the Ukrainians getting their asses handed to them. The next one talks that Zelensky is leading the charge to take Moscow.
All the while, America taxpayer money goes to enrich the Ukrainian government and American military hardware is squandered.
You are probably correct, for now.
However, our ruling class appears to be working very hard to reverse that.
They are having considerable success.
Biden is doing a great job for his Chinese and Globalist masters. It must be a challenge, at times, to keep them both happy.
But, he has done a fair job of keeping Russia happy too, by lowering overall oil supply and keeping the world oil price up.
Clinton awarded those MOH to the families of Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart on the morning of Jackie Onassis’s funeral, they were made invisible.
Here are your medals, now I have something really important to do.
Some things are more expensive in Russia, but its mostly European imports and the Russians are quickly finding new sources or manufacturing the stuff themselves.
Check out his yacht.
American taxpayers are unwillingly having to pay Uke troops and their corrupt government who just voted themselves a 70% pay raise. Ukraine has always been too corrupt to take care of the people there. The leaders wheel and deal living large while conducting shady business with western politicians and EU oligarchs.
I am sure the UK should spend their energy worrying about how to take better care of their own citizens than worry about Russians and Ukrainians.
UK intelligence: Donald Trump did golden showers with hookers.
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