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A 34-year-old Russian paratrooper named Pavel Filatyev has written a brutally critical account of his time in the Russian army leading up to and during the invasion of Ukraine...Among other things, Filatyev details squalid, unlivable conditions throughout basic training, created and compounded by bureaucracy and ineptitude : I had to run like a homeless from one barracks to another, looking for a bed to sleep in, until I found a place to rent at my own expense There is not enough food for everyone, the potatoes in the soup are raw… the bread is stale We get up at 5...