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 ...
Yeah. I lugged one of those around for 23 years too.
Sounds like a Potemkin training ground designed to show Putin they are doing their job. Hah! No wonder Russia is loosing!
It seems GIs quit carrying an entrenching tool as part of their everyday gear but the Army has brought back foxhole training and basics such as camouflage and camo grease (at least they were in 2016).
In a real land war like this one with artillery barrages, and front lines I would definitely want to be issued an entrenching tool.
“do you trolls get paid extra for weekends?”
Yes, do you?
Double BS!
By and large it was a lot, because the home front was a long way from the fighting, and we not desperate. But I had an uncle from West Texas who, on December 8, 1941, hitch hiked to the nearest town on the railroad, took a train to the nearest town large enough to have a Navy recruiter, and enlisted that afternoon. It would have taken him at least two days to reach California on the train -- the government did not buy recruits tickets on an express -- so he could not have begun training before December 11. He spent Christmas Day, 1941, on board a ship headed to Pearl Harbor.
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