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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The Ukraine government, Biden regime and British lie but the map of the war doesn't.
It very well may be accurate to say that a good portion of Russia, along with Iran, etc al are basically destroyed in Ezekiel 38.
That being said, there’s an insane push for World War III right now (you’re not part of that obviously).
Meanwhile, in America, the most important midterms are coming up.
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Probably!
Their morale seems to be great.
And it's whispered that soon
If we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason
et al
Autocorrect 🙄🙄
Agree completely. Focus on America for the next 40 days (and nights)
The “fighting homos” that are beating the Russians. Got it.
Real Reason:
Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Guess I needed the s/ after all.
Boko Haram [remember the hundreds of Christian girls they kidnapped? O did nothing to rescue a single one of them - like I said, Christian.] regularly fed drugs to their child soldiers. Made them numbingly ruthless. Would imagine a similar effect with copious amounts of alcohol. And it didn’t stop the russkies from taking all of those provinces from the biggest, best NATO trained and equipped army in EU, now did it?
So lets deal in facts and not histrionics.
Keep your feet on the ground, padre. That preachy stuff scares me something fierce.
Because this is an official piece of propaganda from the Ukrainian MOD. The thing about propaganda is that it may be false, but it may also be true.
In WW2 and the Cold War the US and Britain (and others, like West Germany) propaganda was skewed to the truth vs Germany and the USSR, in order to “burn through” the Nazi and Soviet media controls.
The map is in process of being revised.
Looks just as effective as modern weapons.
Perhaps better in some cases.
Ukraine had the “biggest, best” Nato trained army?
In what universe?
The Maxim and MP-40 are still excellent if in good condition.
LOL
I agree, my post was a bit sarcastic as a stone can kill people (still).
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Just oil them up and unleash the fury.
How much have you had to drink tonight?
It’s still early...
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