Posted on 10/04/2022 3:50:03 PM PDT by dennisw
Soldiers in Russia’s newly formed 3rd Army Corps fighting in Ukraine are often drunk, plagued by low morale and forced to use obsolete weapons on the battlefield, according to the Ukrainian military.
The Kremlin cobbled together the formation in June to replace the tens of thousands of troops killed or injured since the start of the invasion in February. It is composed of several brigades totaling some 15,000 mostly volunteer soldiers equipped with hundreds of tanks, Newsweek reported.
But according to an update from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Monday, Russia’s five-month-old unit is facing some major hurdles.
Citing unspecified “available information,” Ukraine’s military claimed that the 3rd Army Corps is unable to effectively perform its tasks due, in part, to “obsolete and unusable weapons and military equipment” that troops are being forced to use.
According to the General Staff’s update, servicemen in the unit have been known to arbitrarily abandon positions and refuse orders.
Ukrainian officials blamed the corps’ woes on “consumption of alcoholic beverages” and “systematic violations of military discipline,” which have been causing “demoralization” in the ranks.
Forbes Magazine reported in mid-September that the 3rd Army Corps, based in Mulino, Russia, is staffed by old, unfit volunteers, among them drug and alcohol addicts, who are getting paid up to $5,000 a month, which is five times higher than the average Russian salary.
A portion of the unit was deployed in the Kharkiv region in early September, just before Ukraine launched a lightning counter-offensive that reclaimed large swaths of occupied territory and pushed Moscow’s forces across the border back into Russia.
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Unleashes to do what? Running further south is all the Russians have the ability to do.
There’s a lot all over the place these days
Drunk soldiers can be very good soldiers. It all depends if they want to fight or not.
Me too....
You are 15x more well read than I am. All I knew about Falstaff was that he drank and was a jolly man.
“Unleashes to do what? Running further south is all the Russians have the ability to do.”
Forced too far south, the Russian troops will end up crowding into Crimea. Then they can flee back to mother Russia via the Kerch bridge.
Better hope them Russians and Donbass militia are “drunk” and using “obsolete” weapons, cause if they ever use sober and modern weapons, Ukraine will be far worse off manpower and military equipment wise than they already are......
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