Lying comes so natural to you, to paraphrase Forrest Gump.
Posted on 09/25/2022 1:34:39 AM PDT by Cronos
The Kremlin this summer scrambled to form a new army corps, seeking replacements for 80,000 troops injured or killed in Ukraine and 5,000 wrecked or captured vehicles.
...As Russian casualties exceeded 50,000 this spring, the Kremlin began scraping together fresh battalions by raiding the training and garrison establishment of existing brigades. At the same time, the army announced an initiative to form scores of new regional volunteer battalions—and even offered elevated salaries of up to $5,000 a month.
This should come as no surprise. The recruitment drive behind the 3rd AC collided with Russia’s unhappy demographics and conscription practices. Roughly half of the 900,000 people in the Russian army forces are professionals on long-term contracts. The other half is conscripts between the ages of 18 and 27
elements of the 3rd AC in late August deployed to Kharkiv Oblast where, a week later, a dozen Ukrainian brigades launched a powerful counteroffensive that, in a heavy five days, rolled Russian forces out of the oblast and back across the Russian border.
The 3rd AC was supposed to bolster Russian defenses around Kharkiv. It instead lost a few vehicles to Ukrainian attacks then joined the Russian retreat from the oblast, leaving behind tanks and BMP-2 and BTR-80 fighting vehicles.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
it’s the Ukrainians kicking Russian butt.
That’s what makes it hard for Russians to bear.
Lying comes so natural to you, to paraphrase Forrest Gump.
That’s a fake picture.
Donetsk, Luhansk etc. aren’t Russian - no more than Yakutia is Russia
As to “lying comes natural to ya” — nah, I’m not a citizen of Putin’s land - then it would be natural.
Not a big fan of thinking I take it?
Map on 25th September
Map on 11 November
You seem to be consistently wronk, crankdiot
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