Posted on 10/04/2022 3:50:03 PM PDT by dennisw
Soldiers in Russia’s newly formed 3rd Army Corps fighting in Ukraine are often drunk, plagued by low morale and forced to use obsolete weapons on the battlefield, according to the Ukrainian military.
The Kremlin cobbled together the formation in June to replace the tens of thousands of troops killed or injured since the start of the invasion in February. It is composed of several brigades totaling some 15,000 mostly volunteer soldiers equipped with hundreds of tanks, Newsweek reported.
But according to an update from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Monday, Russia’s five-month-old unit is facing some major hurdles.
Citing unspecified “available information,” Ukraine’s military claimed that the 3rd Army Corps is unable to effectively perform its tasks due, in part, to “obsolete and unusable weapons and military equipment” that troops are being forced to use.
According to the General Staff’s update, servicemen in the unit have been known to arbitrarily abandon positions and refuse orders.
Ukrainian officials blamed the corps’ woes on “consumption of alcoholic beverages” and “systematic violations of military discipline,” which have been causing “demoralization” in the ranks.
Forbes Magazine reported in mid-September that the 3rd Army Corps, based in Mulino, Russia, is staffed by old, unfit volunteers, among them drug and alcohol addicts, who are getting paid up to $5,000 a month, which is five times higher than the average Russian salary.
A portion of the unit was deployed in the Kharkiv region in early September, just before Ukraine launched a lightning counter-offensive that reclaimed large swaths of occupied territory and pushed Moscow’s forces across the border back into Russia.
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Sergeant Stoli is the commander of this Russkie army unit
I believe little of what I read about the Ukraine war…except that it isn’t over.
It’s 95% BS from top to bottom.
Every little article is nothing but propaganda.
I laugh at the folks who invest so much emotional energy into trolling these threads.
Hell of a worthless life!
If im going to be shot id rather be wasted drunk too.
“...according to the Ukrainian military.”
Escalation appears to be imminent. Why bother with propaganda when we shall soon see how the Ukrainian military fares against the unleashed Russian military.
In the meantime...Ukie soldiers are happy, have dances every night and drink good wine with their chunks of pork and bowl of potatoes.
Pray for peace
What else is new?
The Liberal World Order is going to bring homo to all of the “liberated” areas.
When will the new version of the Russian army appear (approximately)?
Some people say that about religious threads.
Who’s going to unleash them? All their colonels and generals are dead.
It seems Ukraine has the momentum at the moment, but this article seems like complete baloney.
Why do the Ruskies have obsolete arms? Didn’t they export like a billion AK47’s around the world? They should be tripping over them.
That MP-40 is worth some $$$.
I would take both and they are still deadly, cried myself to sleep when I saw a conex box full of Gewehr 44s in Libya
Well, you are here and apparently you have butthurt.
God doesn’t choose sides.
>>Soldiers in Russia’s newly formed 3rd Army Corps fighting in Ukraine are often drunk, plagued by low morale and forced to use obsolete weapons on the battlefield, according to the Ukrainian military
Because we know the Ukrainian military is an unimpeachable source regarding the Russian military?
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