33/ "1. Because at the beginning of the Special Military Operation and for a long time after, the generals and leadership of the Ministry of Defence believed that drones were not serious. And we suffered losses in personnel and equipment.
Full-scale invasion and national resilience, broadcasted live.
-
Kashevarova: False reports hide Russia’s military balance and personnel numbers.
27/ Kashevarova attributes the situation to "false reports that hide the real balance of forces and the number of personnel." (False reporting is a long-standing problem for the Russian military, as the thread below discusses.)
-
Active combat depletes assault units faster than reinforcements can arrive
25/ "Finally, due to excessive losses in active units engaged in active combat operations, the number of personnel (primarily assault units) regularly drops, which cannot be promptly replenished by marching reinforcements [to the front].
-
Orban suggests ceasefire pause and negotiations to Zelensky
"I asked President #Zelensky to consider whether it's possible to make a pause, cease fire, and then start negotiations," Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor #Orban said during a joint press conference with Volodymyr Zelensky in #Kyiv, as reported by RBC-Ukraine.
-
Fitness category ‘G’ personnel returned to temporary deployment zones in SMO
23/ "At the same time, people, including those in fitness category "G", tend to be returned to the places of temporary deployment of units in the Special Military Operation zone, which in itself is not very favourable,…
-
Volunteer with spinal injury sent to front
In my memory, they tried to send a volunteer to the front who had shrapnel lodged in his spine, injuring his spinal cord: his legs were paralyzed, his blood pressure was dangerously high, and he was told, in rough terms: 'Go to the front with your shrapnel…'
-
Neurological Issues: Limbs Present But Non-Functional, A Difficult Situation
17/ Natalia Kurchatova comments that "the situation with neurological problems is especially difficult, when, for example, a person’s arms and legs are formally in place, but they do not function properly.
-
Sending Unhealed Soldiers to Their Deaths
15/ "- And not only are you not demobilized, but in some cases you are sent to your death without being fully healed."
-
Kashevarova to file complaint with military prosecutor, track commanders’ actions
11/ Kashevarova says that she is making a complaint to the military prosecutor's office and she has "a record of which of them file complaints, so unscrupulous commanders will not be able to quickly send them to the front line and hide the traces of their dubious activities".
-
Wounded Russian soldiers sent to Ukraine due to heavy losses and mismanagement
1/ Badly wounded Russian soldiers, some on crutches, are being sent to fight in Ukraine. Russian milbloggers say it is because of huge losses and shortages of personnel, as well as bureaucratic mismanagement and the military's culture of lying to superiors. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/hhIyLhGwqC
— ChrisO_wiki (@ChrisO_wiki) 2 juillet 20241/ Badly wounded Russian soldiers, some on crutches, are being sent to fight in Ukraine. Russian milbloggers say it is because of huge losses and shortages of personnel, as well as bureaucratic mismanagement and the military's culture of lying to superiors.