Storm Z: Russia’s Penal Battalions Reviving Stalin-Era Tactics for High-Risk Assaults

3/ Storm Z is effectively a revival of the Stalin-era shtrafbat (penal battalion) – a company-sized unit of convicts and possibly some mobilised soldiers being punished for being 'refuseniks'. Storm Z units are used for high-risk, high-casualty assaults.

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