The complaints of Russian soldiers describing the composition of their explosives reminds me of an incident from almost 60 years ago. A housemate of mine had returned from a trip to Russia. She was complaining about the lousy toothpaste she bought there. She showed it to me. The paste came out in hard and soft lumps and wet patches with coloring. Unpleasant looking stuff which was hard to apply to a toothbrush. It sounds like creating explosive contents has not gotten much better than that toothpase in the past 50 years. Of course, poorly distributed concentrations of gun powder in shells would tend to create unreliability in explosive power and direction of blasts. Thanks for keeping us up to date on things others are no longer able or willing to report.
65 years or so ago a high school classmate visited Russia and wrote letters home.....on their toilet paper.