Posted on 10/07/2022 4:31:28 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
The Ukrainians’ bodies lay side-by-side on the grass, the earth beside them splayed open by a crater. Dragged to the spot by Russian mercenaries, the victims’ arms pointed to where they had died.
“Let’s plant a grenade on them,” a voice says in husky Russian, in what appears to be a plan to booby-trap the bodies.
“There is no need for a grenade, we will just bash them in,” another says of the Ukrainian soldiers who will come to collect the bodies. The mercenaries then realize they have run out of ammunition.
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Wagner’s struggles in Ukraine have set in motion a wider problem: discontent in its ranks. For a group that depends on the appeal of its salaries and work, that’s critical.
From intercepted phone calls, Ukrainian intelligence services in August noted a “general decline in morale and the psychological state” of Wagner troops, Ukrainian defense intelligence spokesman Yusov said. It’s a trend he’s also seen in Russian troops more broadly.
The reduction in Wagner recruitment requirements point to demoralization too, he said, and the number of “truly professional soldiers who are willing to volunteer to fight with Wagner” is also decreasing.
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Well, it is.
The Wagner group and other Russian PMCs serve the same purposes as the Waffen-SS, Gestapo and Einsatzgruppen all in one. Except they work unofficially and off the record from the regular military. When morale drops for PMCs as one of the favored and privileged units, then morale is much worse throughout the regular units.
One of the many buffoons here who take figures of speech literally.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sergei-butorin-2011-9
More about this particular Rus criminal. I don’t know when he joined Wagner.... but at Twitter says recently>>>>
“Crime boss of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group Sergey Butorin, sentenced to life for the murder of 38 people, signed a contract with Wagner He “will go to Ukraine to atone for his guilt with blood” “
If he was a crime boss of an organized crime group, then he may survive for a while. Spree killers are more disorgnized psychopaths. In fact I think there is a difference between sociopaths and psychopaths, in that the first don’t do crazy things if it is not in their self interest. Sadam Hussein’s 2 sons Uday and Kussay were like that. Pop sent Kussay out to do big jobs requiring organization and cold blooded murder. Uday was a spoiled playboy type who would crash weddings and take the bride to rape, and murder the husband if he objected.
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