Posted on 10/03/2023 4:24:24 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Drunk recruits. Insubordinate soldiers. Convicts.
They're among hundreds of military and civilian offenders who've been pressed into Russian penal units known as "Storm-Z" squads and sent to the frontlines in Ukraine this year, according to 13 people with knowledge of the matter, including five fighters in the units.
Few live to tell their tale, the people said.
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"Storm fighters, they're just meat," said one regular soldier from army unit no. 40318 who was deployed near the fiercely contested city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine in May and June.
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Russian state-controlled media has reported that Storm-Z squads exist, that they took part in intense battles and some of their members received medals for bravery, but it has not disclosed how they are formed, or the losses they take.
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The penal squads, each about 100-150 strong and embedded within regular army units, have typically been sent to the most exposed parts of the front and often sustain heavy losses, according to Reuters interviews with the people, who identified at least five Storm-Z teams fighting to repel a Ukrainian counteroffensive in the east and south.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
SOP for Marxist/Maoist armies. Stalin did it...Mao did it...and yes,Hitler did it too.
Is Reuters writing fiction now, or is this for real?? I suspect it is little of both.
They used to call them “cannon fodder”
Was Hitler a marxist or a maoist?
Which is Zelensky?
Because it’s been a long time since the world witnessed a more savage nihilistic strategy than that of the Ukrainians sending waves of men to their deaths.
This story is yet another in a pattern of western media projecting onto Russia the abhorrent acts being perped similarly or much much worse by our Ukrainian “ aliies”
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This war will end when the Ukraine either ceases to exist and/or NATO collapses. When that happens, Neocon rats like you will go back to being #Nevertrump globalists, pimping vaxxines and other forms of Big government.
JUST MORE NAKED CIA WAR PORN PROPAGANDA FROM TGE FR SNAKE
Does everyone here love this Biden Putin war like TR does? That Snake just loves the smell of napalm in the morning.
I wish Russia would make peace with its neighbors and instead wage war with the scumbag foot soldiers at Reuters and Associated Press. The true enemy of the people. /spit
Sending drunks to the front line is addition by subtraction ... fewer useless people mooching off society ... however, once Putin gets rid of all the drunks, who will be left in Russia?
The Shape Shifters of Ukraine… Losing The Battle
Posted on October 3, 2023 by Helena
Excerpt:
“US claims its aide to Ukraine to be roughly $120 billion, the EU claims their contribution is $85 billion, and another $55 billion has been wracked up by other state actors. $260 billion dedicated, yet according to the World Bank where ALL funds must be laundered, only $38 billion was actually sent out. A discrepancy of $222 billion – 85% – lost in the melee.”
https://helenaglass.net/2023/10/03/ukraine-shape-shifters-losing-the-battle/
Putin and his fannyboys are the only ones here cheering for more war
because a Russo-Nazi regime like Russia isn’t interested in Peace, just attacking & invading more neighboring countries
“Russian State TV Lays Out Plans for New Empire”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4185887/posts
“Russia general says Ukraine just ‘stepping stone’ to invade Europe: ‘Won’t stop’”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4181954/posts
Alternate headline: NATO is losing to a bunch of drunks and convicts.
Maybe its time to stop writing a blank check to these morons.
“This war will end when the Ukraine either ceases to exist and/or NATO collapses.”
Yep, and as far as how the Russians view Ukrainians, the article is, of course, more Pulp Fiction, since they look at Ukrainians as basically siblings of Russians.
But it may come true in the future, which is if the Neocons force Russia to take the fight into Poland and Western Europe, then the gloves come off and it’s likely back to World War 2 rules for them.
It must be such fun to live a life of making things up all the time.
There is no way on Earth that Ukraine, fighting with loads of the latest weapons from the Western countries, is killing its soldiers in a nihilistic fashion that has never been seen before in world history.
In fact, they have been criticized for not pressing the offensive quickly enough, and for failing to conscript the younger generation.
Kind of like the zombies who walk around reciting global warming doom stories.
Why don’t you just get out of my country with your anti-western and anti-american propaganda, I mean it’s disgusting.
Now you’re blathering on that the West is going to “force” Russia to invade Poland and all of Western Europe.
But Russia loves it’s Ukrainian “siblings” okeee dokie. You’re absurd and it’s sad if anyone here listens to you.
Western Civilization is now about spreading perversion around the globe.
Kook talk like that will bring down Western civilization.
The Dirty Dozen, only much bigger.
Our government and entertainment industry is doing a good enough job on their own.
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