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Russian soldiers 'living in holes they have dug with their bare hands' in Ukraine
https://www.telegraph.co.uk ^ | 22 October 2022 • 4:01pm | Jessica Abrahams

Posted on 10/22/2022 10:06:05 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com

The soldiers, who say they are from Krasnodar in southern Russia, claim that after a month of being transported between different locations, they were dropped off "somewhere in the fields of Ukraine" with no radio, no ammunition and no medicine. They say they do not even know where they are.

The men add that they are living in holes dug out of the ground with their bare hands as temperatures drop to zero at night time. Two people are so sick they need to be hospitalised, the men say.

"There is no information, no command. We sit like on [tenterhooks], because we do not know where are our own [and] where are the enemy. No radio, no cartridges, no s***," one says.

They claim that their families even had to pay for their military uniforms and that they had to dig the holes with their hands because they were not provided with shovels .

"No shovel, nothing with us... We live just in the field... They bring some food, literally two times a day. We burn fires, chop trees, dig," one says.

It is just the latest information to emerge about the treatment of men mobilised by Russia to fight in Ukraine, many of whom have been sent to the frontlines without training.

British intelligence had previously indicated that Russian conscripts were being forced to pay for their own body armour.

Meanwhile in a recent video posted from the Stavropol region in southern Russia, a soldier displayed the kit he had been given, which included a plastic paintballing mask and children's gloves.

Some men mobilised just last month have already been killed and sent back to Russia in coffins.

It comes amid indications that the partial mobilisation of troops is UNDERMINING SUPPORT for President Vladimir Putin in Russia.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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To: Eleutheria5

“Telegraph correspondents get to talk to them, photograph them, and come back from remote fields...”

Many this video will give insight:

Telegraph correspondents’ stories from the frontline | War in Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f_TF18ld-4


21 posted on 10/23/2022 12:01:20 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion, )
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Their families even had to pay for their military uniforms.


That’s Russia. Not the U.S. where you get free trans surgery, and male troops walking in spiked heels as “training”.


22 posted on 10/23/2022 12:02:29 AM PDT by sumuam
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To: Widget Jr

“Here’s the original version of the first two clips.”

Thankyou, Appreciate your information.


23 posted on 10/23/2022 12:06:31 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion, )
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

One would reasonably conclude you are wrong. There could not be that many guys in one place with every one of them from a family that could afford that clothing.

They do not look confused about anything. Their hands are not dirty from digging those holes.

You do realize that country has its own central bank? Just like the Federal Reserve, but unlike the Fed they have not had to monetize bonds. There is no reason to believe those uniforms were not bought by the service.


24 posted on 10/23/2022 12:08:48 AM PDT by Owen
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Don’t worry, I don’t think the cost of their uniforms affects you, anyway. It’s a privilege to fight for one’s country against globohomo, Soros, and the parasitical, “elites”, who have f’d up America, way and beyond. Even Zelensky said the streets of Ukraine were safer than the U.S.


25 posted on 10/23/2022 12:10:57 AM PDT by sumuam
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

putin is an evil man. he doesn’t care about his own troops, just his personal ambitions!


26 posted on 10/23/2022 1:23:44 AM PDT by Sunsong
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To: sumuam

Yeah im sure those soldiers feel “privileged”


27 posted on 10/23/2022 2:00:53 AM PDT by FreshPrince
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To: Owen

https://t.me/IntelRepublic (videos at site)

Putin and Shoigu visited mobilized at the training ground in the Ryazan region

The President checked the course of training at the training ground, the issues of combat coordination of units and the readiness of personnel to perform tasks in the zone of the special operation.

Putin also heard a report from the Minister of Defense on the passage of combat training by the mobilized in various military specialties.

In addition, Putin visited the shooting complex, where mobilized people practice various methods of shooting under the guidance of their commanders and military instructors with combat experience.

-Redovka

https://t.me/intelslava (multiple videos of Putin’s visit at site)

🇷🇺 Footage of Putin’s visit to the training ground in the Ryazan region, where the mobilized are being trained

Putin checked the progress of the training of those mobilized at the training ground in the Ryazan region, Shoigu reported on their completion of a course of combat training in military specialties, as well as combat coordination as part of units.

The President also inspected practical exercises in tactical, fire, engineering and medical training. He was shown the trainees overcoming the air assault strip as part of a platoon, an exercise in combating the armored vehicles of a mock enemy in close combat.

Putin visited a multifunctional shooting complex, where mobilized people practice various methods of firing as part of units under the guidance of commanders and instructors with combat experience.


28 posted on 10/23/2022 2:06:10 AM PDT by Cathi
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Well, well, well… yet another post from the ‘LEAGUE OF GERIATRICS FOR WAR’ lobby.


29 posted on 10/23/2022 2:06:56 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Then it sounds like Zelensky doesn’t need the next installment of FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS Slow-Joe Biden has promised him.


30 posted on 10/23/2022 2:08:33 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Owen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=478QjXUUScA

Putin hugs Russian soldiers, fires several shots from sniper rifle; Wishes his men a ‘good luck’


31 posted on 10/23/2022 2:10:46 AM PDT by Cathi
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To: FreshPrince

Fighting for your country is a privilege as the U.S. military has been telling young, men, for over 70 years.
And look where we are today.

“Fresh Prince”, really annoys me. So gay and faggotty. Will Smith turned out to be a real punk.

I don’t take pleasure in bloodshed on either side. I hate that the globohomo and Soros caused this.


32 posted on 10/23/2022 2:10:50 AM PDT by sumuam
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To: Nifster

YEAH; my Father was there, he hated snow till the day he died!


33 posted on 10/23/2022 2:32:14 AM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

YUP; and the reporter from the TELEGRAPH (an english leftist propaganda rag) was able to sit down with the troopers and get this story first hand.

I mean after all, he’s quoting them almost word for word, RIGHT?


34 posted on 10/23/2022 2:40:25 AM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

You are aware that NUTS is not the word he actually used.


35 posted on 10/23/2022 2:43:03 AM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: 5th MEB

He did say “Nuts”.


36 posted on 10/23/2022 3:13:07 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Troops pictured are NOT the troops who made the 2 videos. This image is just some random shot of Russian troops somewhere, location unknown.


37 posted on 10/23/2022 3:26:54 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: sumuam

“Will Smith turned out to be a real punk.”

Our pastor in CA held a funeral service for some guy several years ago. Will Smith spoke. Pastor said Smith’s language was vile — at a funeral. Classy.


38 posted on 10/23/2022 3:45:01 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Will Smith has never done anything original in his life. He or his handlers have always borrowed ideas from other movies or actors.
It made me sick the way he would grab his son, and forcibly kiss him on the mouth. That’s not normal.


39 posted on 10/23/2022 4:07:32 AM PDT by sumuam
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To: 5th MEB

I bet


40 posted on 10/23/2022 4:10:32 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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