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'We've been thrown into the s**t! Our rifles don't f***ing fire!' Young Russian conscripts complain they have been given 1940s guns and are suffering heavy losses against Ukraine
Daily Mail ^ | Published: 05:34 EDT, 30 March 2022 | Updated: 06:01 EDT, 30 March 2022 | Adam Solomons

Posted on 03/30/2022 11:26:42 PM PDT by Zhang Fei

In a clip shared on Twitter and in pro-Ukraine Telegram channels, a group of ten student soldiers in oversized helmets wielding AK-47s from the 1940s complain they've been 'thrown into the s**t'.

One complains: 'Know the truth! The Russian Ministry of Defence has no idea about us, or what we’re doing here.

Another adds: 'Our rifles are from the 1940s! They don’t f***ing fire! They’re sending f***ing ordinary students into war', according to The Times.

The boys, who are reportedly members of the 15th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade, filmed themselves in the back of a lorry near Sumy, close to the border with Russia.

One lad in a Russian army helmet too big for his head points to himself and says, 'I'm 18 years old.'

He then holds up his AK-47 machine gun - first issued to Soviet soldiers in 1947 - and complains, 'We’ve been given automatic rifles to take on Grads, artillery, mortar shells.

'We're asking you to spread this.'

One quarter of Russia's army is made up of conscripts aged 18-27, disproportionately from poorer backgrounds where families are unable to obtain legal letters or doctors' notes excusing their sons from battle.

Earlier this month, a group of Russian conscripts captured by Ukraine said they were deceived into believing the war was a military training exercise and apologised for behaving 'like fascists'.

Moscow youngster Aleksandr Morozov, 22, said: 'Ukrainians are a strong people, they fight like beasts.

'Their aircraft shatters our columns utterly. Our side suffers great losses: technicians, sergeants, officers, soldiers. And we want to stop that.

'I want to apologize to the whole of Ukraine for coming here. I do not want violence in this country. I am very ashamed.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: adamsolomons; ak74isnotfrom40s; biden; ciaagitprop; dailyfail; debunked; frpottymouths; liarthread; mi6agitprop; outandoutlies; putin; russia; schwabagitprop; thedailyfail; thedialyfail; ukraine; war
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Alleged Russian draftees gripe on social media. I feel for these kids, but if they're for real, this is quite a change from the soldiers of what seems like a hundred lifetimes ago, who tried to reassure their loved ones that they were safely ensconced in some HQ role far away from the combat zone, whose day-to-day routine involved counting paper clips or some such. Then again, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. If these kids make enough noise, maybe the mucky mucks get static from Putin and move to improve the situation of the grunts in the field.
1 posted on 03/30/2022 11:26:42 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
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Some reason... I doubt anything and everything coming out of this war from either side. Really? Conscript in Putin’s army is going to give his full name while complaining about the brass? Not believable.


2 posted on 03/30/2022 11:29:02 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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[Conscript in Putin’s army is going to give his full name while complaining about the brass? Not believable]


Au contraire. Proof of life video. If he’s killed, his parents know why.


3 posted on 03/30/2022 11:31:55 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Considering he is holding an AK-74 not an AK-47 it is not from the “40s”. But the media would not know that so they push their false narratives...


4 posted on 03/30/2022 11:32:12 PM PDT by Trinity5
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To: Zhang Fei

I read earlier that one group of Russian soldiers were given nothing but instructions to point their fingers and yell “BANG!” The same instructions were given to Ukrainian soldiers and they killed a thousand Russians.


5 posted on 03/30/2022 11:32:50 PM PDT by Rastus
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This what you get when you have a repressed country, conscripting to attempt to field an army.

Russia, will begin to implode after this is over.


6 posted on 03/30/2022 11:33:40 PM PDT by rbmillerjr (Defeating China is impossible without understanding that Russia is our enemy)
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[Translation] DPR soldiers surrendered to Ukrainian of the 93rd brigade “Holodniy Yar”. (Bad language)
7 posted on 03/30/2022 11:33:59 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Zhang Fei

Ah yes, the UK Daily Tabloid again.


8 posted on 03/30/2022 11:34:20 PM PDT by McGruff (Biden - There's going to be a new world order out there and we've got to lead it)
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To: Organic Panic

“I doubt anything and everything coming out of this war from either side.”

Ditto.


9 posted on 03/30/2022 11:45:37 PM PDT by avenir (Information overload = Pattern recognition)
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Russian soldiers were not allowed to carry cell phones.

Fake news.


10 posted on 03/30/2022 11:50:26 PM PDT by dmzTahoe
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They rob the locals and take their phones.


11 posted on 03/30/2022 11:53:53 PM PDT by Krosan
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[Russian soldiers were not allowed to carry cell phones.]


Russian equipment is top notch and well-maintained. Yeah, that’s the ticket.


12 posted on 03/30/2022 11:54:04 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: avenir

Pray tell what other side in the media ?

Aside from mining the net for RT it’s a dearth

Our exposure is 99% this shit like from the Daily Propaganda that reads like Baghdad Bob


13 posted on 03/30/2022 11:57:45 PM PDT by wardaddy (Free Republic lamd of the earnest headline readers )
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To: Zhang Fei

So why are we giving Billions in military aid to Ukraine if Russia is so incompetent?

This doesn’t pass the smell test.


14 posted on 03/30/2022 11:59:24 PM PDT by desertfreedom765
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[So why are we giving Billions in military aid to Ukraine if Russia is so incompetent?

This doesn’t pass the smell test.]


You can be grossly incompetent and still win if the other side is unarmed. For instance a lousy shot with a gun pointed at an unarmed person has every advantage. The weaponry we’re providing to Ukraine ensures that Ukraine has the bare minimum needed to hold the Russians off. Russian incompetence is such that the trickle we’re providing to Ukraine, which still leaves the defender at a huge disadvantage, equipment-wise, is nonetheless able to balance the scales somewhat. If we step it up, Ukraine might cross the threshold needed to evict the Russians entirely.


15 posted on 03/31/2022 12:16:04 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Zhang Fei

The bullshit is getting thicker by the day.

Meanwhile, the Uke Nazis are short of manpower and getting sloppier at holding their people hostage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk5DVsB6T90


16 posted on 03/31/2022 12:16:43 AM PDT by NorseViking
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Russia is fighting military battles. Ukraine is spending time on the internet.

It actually makes sense. Their only hope is dragging NATO in.

The problem with this is NATO has already said no. Since their only hope is dragging NATO in, and NATO says no, then they have no hope, and people are dying when they know they have no hope.

This is surrender territory.


17 posted on 03/31/2022 12:35:19 AM PDT by Owen
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To: Owen

Russia is bombarding civilians in a terror battle.

Ukraine stopped the Kiev invasion.

What has Russian taken ?

Answer: A beating.


18 posted on 03/31/2022 12:39:05 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (Defeating China is impossible without understanding that Russia is our enemy)
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To: wardaddy

Watch Patrick Lancaster’s reports from the Donbas, Donetsk, and Mariupol on YouTube. He interviews Russian civilians living in Ukraine whose lives are being destroyed by the fighting, especially by the Azov Battalion. It’s heartbreaking.


19 posted on 03/31/2022 12:44:38 AM PDT by Prince of Space ( Let’s go, Brandon! )
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apologised for behaving 'like fascists'.

Hmm smells like antifa underarm deodorant

20 posted on 03/31/2022 12:46:59 AM PDT by Ymani Cricket ("Fear kills more people than death" ~General George C. Patton)
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