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Some conscripts to the Russian war effort from the Donbas region are being handed antiquated rifles designed in the late nineteenth century, forced to drink from ponds littered with dead frogs, turning on their commanders and refusing to fight on.
One student draftee who was given an automatic weapon said he had received no instructions on how to fire it. The student, speaking to Reuters, said he was ordered to repel an attack by Ukrainian forces, but told a reporter: “I don’t even know how to fire an automatic weapon.”
‘It’s a Sh*tshow’: Russian Troops Are Now Turning on Each Other
The student said he was put in a mortar unit but was “taught nothing…Up to that point I had only seen mortars in movies. Obviously, I didn’t know how to do anything with them.”
The wife of another untrained Donbas draftee told Reuters: “He doesn’t even really know how to hold an automatic weapon.”
The report follows dozens of Western intelligence briefings and information shared by Ukrainians officials, which suggest that morale within the Russian forces is at breaking point and supply lines are a disaster.
Last week, a Russian soldier was caught on tape lamenting the huge losses they were taking and complaining that the army was full of “morons.”
“Our brigade has totally shit themselves. There are losses, many wounded,” he told his wife. “It’s unclear why we are even here,” he said.
Ukraine has made advances in dozens of regions where Russian forces made initial inroads, revealing the true scale of the horror perpetrated in President Putin’s name.
Reuters said that it spoke to six people for the report. In addition to the student it spoke to “three wives of conscripts who have mobile phone contact with their partners, one acquaintance of a draftee, and one source close to the pro-Russian separatist leadership who is helping to organize supplies for the Donbas armed forces.”
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