In 2014, Russian combat brigades were donating their best men & equipment to form a deployable battalion-size unit. Back then they were “picked men”. Do we suddenly think that they would be doing the opposite now? Especially when you consider that this is an ambitious offensive maneuver that seems a little bit like the march on Baghdad in GWII (minus the sand storms).
In 2014, Russian combat brigades were donating their best men & equipment to form a deployable battalion-size unit
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In 2022, the Russians are donating their heavy weapons to form deployable battalion-size units in the Ukraine Army and their men to body bags and POW camps.