Posted on 04/02/2023 7:49:50 AM PDT by dennisw
Russia has suffered around 200,000 casualties since its invasion of Ukraine
The Ministry of Defence claims a 'minority' are due to non-combat causes A high number of deaths are linked to Russian soldier's alcohol consumption
The UK Ministry of Defence said an 'extremely high' number of Russian troop deaths as a part of the Ukraine war are linked to alcohol abuse.
Russian military forces are injuring themselves as a result of poor handling of weapons and heavy drinking, according to the ministry's morning intelligence update.
Although Russia has suffered around 200,000 casualties since the beginning of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine over a year ago, the briefing said 'a significant minority of these have been due to non-combat causes'.
A Russian Telegram news channel reported on March 28 that there have been 'extremely high' numbers of incidents, crimes, and deaths linked to alcohol consumption amongst the deployed Russian troops.
Other likely causes of non-combat casualties included poor weapon handling drills, road traffic accidents and climatic injuries such as hypothermia
They added: 'However, with heavy drinking pervasive across much of Russian society, it has long been seen as a tacitly accepted part of military life, even on combat operations.'
This follows recent reports that Vladimir Putin's commanders are forcing his conscript soldiers at gunpoint to remain at the frontline using a brutal Stalin tactic.
Soldiers appealed to Putin hoping he will be shocked by their revelations - yet all the evidence is he approves of these 'meat-grinder' tactics.
In a new video where Russian reservist draftees appealed directly to Vladimir Putin, the men said they are given a choice - stay in the frontline and have a slim chance of survival, or retreat and face a bullet in the head - from fellow Russians in Putin's 'retreat-blocking detachments'.
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The Daily Mail!!
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If only they had been fully vaccinated, right Denny?
Nothing new for the Russians if you read the Ostfront histories.
You Zeepers are on fire today double posting the same lying article. Pathetic.
this helps to explain why Russia can’t advance more than 100 miles into Ukraine
“You Zeepers are on fire today double posting the same lying article. Pathetic.”
Putinista
How is it double posting? My source is UK Daily Mail. And I checked before I posted. The other FR post/thread source is from Business insider.
“… How is it double posting? My source is UK Daily Mail. And I checked before I posted. The other FR post/thread source is from Business insider.”
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Surely there must be additional sources which could also be posted. ;-). 🤦🏼🤦🏼
Russians drink? Who knew?
Daily Mail jumping in and reporting on this, given their history, and the anonymous MoD sources, makes this report immediately suspect.
This is par for the course for DM:
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Such an unobjectionable, irreproachable source. 😆😄
Jeebus - could the MI6 Propaganda Department and its fabulist muppets in the Brit press beclown themselves any further?
“could the MI6 Propaganda Department and its fabulist muppets in the Brit press beclown themselves any further?”
They’re just getting warmed up.
I heard stories from The USSR that the factory workers would go to work and there was zero work for them to do. The boss would give them each a bottle of vodka to drink. And that is how they served their shift.
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Keep up the good work Bozo.🤡🤡🤡
200,000 I thought two million Russians were dead and another million taken prisoner...sarc
Casualties != deaths folks.
Both stories are from the same source - the Biden Regime.
The boy is a Dimwit.
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