In a new video posted to social media, newly mobilized Russian soldiers are complaining about their lack of training before being sent to the war with Ukraine. #CNN #News
Video reveals a major problem for new Russian soldiers
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Canada is sending 40 more combat engineers to help support the Polish efforts to train the Ukrainian forces.
@Mark O’Halloran This is not a token, the Canadian military has been hollowed out by decades of liberal rule. So 40 combat engineers represents a not-insignificant portion of the standing capacity. Also, Canada has issued almost 300K visas and almost 100K of those asylum seekers are now in Canada.
The Canadian government should have done this 6 months ago, but it’s not in your best interest for the war to end faster?
Слава Канаде! Героям слава!
Glory to Canada! Glory to the heroes!
Thx Canada from Poland
Wonderful. Praying the world or Russia will put a swift end to the insanity. It’s amazing for the world to allow this horror to continue month after month.
“lack of training is an understatement” When I was a child in summer camp we shot more than three bullets , and we even had paper targets !
@Singed88 haphazardness is consistent with Russian execution, particularly with this mobilization.
@planet X They pulled it for you. I just reported it too.
I remember going to camp as a kid and shooting a cut out of Brezhnev, it wrong now , but back then it was fun
@jama
Yeah it’s always hilarious to see, how people believe a spam comment is gone, that only got shadow bąnnęd for them. 😀
The total disregard the Russian rulers have for the lives of their own soldiers is such an awful thing to witness.
@fourier The difference is Ukraine and its people are fighting for their freedom and, in many cases, their lives when you look at what happens to civilians in occupied territories like Bucha and Izyum. If Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine ceases to exist, they lose their freedom, and Putin begins his genocide of all ethnic Ukrainians. If Russia surrenders and ends their invasion what happens? Their troops leave Ukraine and then nobody else has to die. They don’t have their backs to the wall, there is no reason for this level of bloodshed for Russia.
@Sergey Bebenin the heroes died like men, the rest are rats. And I’m just pointing out that the bear is not our enemy
They don’t know military tactics. They don’t even know military language. How can the Russian MOD do this to them? Oh well Slava Ukraine!
Cause it’s untrained conscripts vs u trained conscripts?
They can’t read maps, thus have little idea where they are, and maps are restricted-distribution items in the Russian Army, anyway. First aid is also a mystery — and yet, not really needed if they continue to abandon their own wounded in a crisis! They can’t call in artillery or air support — only a field-grade officer (or, more rarely, a captain) is trained and equipped to do so; but if he’s killed or runs away, the unit is left on its own without support.
You don’t need much training to be on the receiving end of western high precision munitions. It probably helps if you don’t know what’s coming.
That is a goal of Putin. Have non-Slavs exhaust HIMARS ammunition or until those regions completely depopulated for Slavs to invade. It is like the Soviet made famines of Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
This might be a dumb question but how does the knowledge of the missiles make it worse?
@hawkeyemihawk getting money lord afro hokage Ok, so one thing might be having to read a book about it then having to write a 10,000 word essay on it, THEN being hit by it like on the way to Starbucks or maybe to commit a war crime on a child. That would totally suck, huh? Slava Ukraini!
@hawkeyemihawk getting money lord afro hokage dying scared
It’s more freeing to remain dumb .. when you don’t know any better there’s no fear. You’ll miss out on everything, but you’ll be too dumb to know it.. gift and a curse I guess@hawkeyemihawk getting money lord afro hokage
Almost feel sorry for these Guys but The Russian people and Parents need to rise up against Putin to stop this madness
Agree 1000% if they are Anti Putin i feel for them i hope they Surrender. if they support Putler i have Zero Pity. Slava Ukraine.
I fully support the people of Ukraine but I do feel pity for these young Russian men; so many wasted lives on way….
I wonder if those Russian “soldiers” realize they only have a few days to live.
Sending untrained men into combat should be considered a war crime.
Your fantasy isn’t truth
@Bryan Dimery Arleast they getting guns and weapons.
nk they will likely know this building. So Dumb this New Meat has no chance .
@H2oways I’m a former infantry soldier, trust me, these guys are toast. Knowing how to fire a weapon accurately is only 1% of being a soldier, and they don’t even know that. Being an effective soldier doesn’t just mean you put on a uniform and shoot a weapon. You have to be trained repeatedly in battle drills, to the point where they are reflex. You have to have experience operating professionally under stress and deprivation. They will be butchered.
This was always going to be the case with Russian mobilization. I’ve been a Training Officer. It’s a complex process that is technical, physical and even psychological. Troopers need to be become proficient and reliable enough to integrate into a unit. Putin is not a soldier. He’s a propagandist who thinks training is about parades. His air power is for flybys and trade shows. I feel for these bewildered young men, only a few will survive. Fewer will actually fight. None will prevail…and their leadership is nonexistent.
I hope those guys find a safe way to surrender quickly. Otherwise, they’re simply dead and they know it.
If the video is real.
Propaganda war being fought too
@Adam xsure. The old saying:”whatever goes against my beliefs is propaganda”. Right?
There is a phone line that is mass text to all phones in area . It’s called I want to live and gives detailed instructions how to surrender
“Never interrupt a enemy when he is making a mistake” – Napoleon Bonaparte
@Igor I’d be fairly certain Einstein did say this at some point in his life… what nuggets of wisdom it gives us into the laws of the universe is a little unclear though.
@Mickelodian Surname that we all are the same nuggets of wisdom which are multiplied by the speed of light squared… Or something like that. I didn’t pay attention during my physics classes, to be entirely honest.
You guys really miss Trump huh? Lmao. He’s not even the president anymore. U guys really need to move on 😂😂🤣
Its crazy how if you happen to be born in the wrong place you can end up, untrained, on the frontline of a pointless war that has no effect on your life (well other than ending it).
If we view it from the human perspective than yes, its horrible to be sent to this pointless war and died, but what if we all live in some matrix and as soon as you exit this world you will truly find a happiness in the next parallel universe or just enter yet another human like experience without remembering how you perished from this one. In our modern, godless consumerist society, ruled by the corporates oligarchs and billionaires, exiting this nonsense kind of making a sense tbh.
@Timby Yeah we have to earn our blessings they don’t come free
@Timby I’m worried life is worse outside the helmet & we’ll simply pick a new avatar for the weekend
I think what he said was 3 magazines each, this is now been confirmed by at least dozen captured soldiers – they had 1 day… (yes 1 day) of fire training! where they were given between 3 and 6 magazines of ammo, shoot 1 prone, 1 standing, then 1 with the “gear” on (although not sure what they call the “gear”… a sweatshirt? No sign of helmets or armoured wests!). those who got 6, obviously shoot 2 magazines at each position. Some as well received medical training on same day (how to bandage wounds basically), others had separate day for that. But in principle the most training they got was 2 days, comprising of short medical field training and followed by fire training of up-to 6 magazines in 3 positions. That is ALL!
Now obviously, that means they will be easier for Ukrainians to defeat, but I am just recognising that ruzzia is not only committing war crimes against Ukrainians, but as well their own. Sending soldier with such training into battle is crime as well – they are simply sent to die for no reason and without even any hope of making a difference.
@Writeous0ne That is the theory – most people drafted have no previous military experience, or are as evident quite old (so their training was 20 years ago). Besides if that is quality of the training they have received when they were conscripted (and everything so far validates this), then “refresher training won’t do it”. Even then calling 3 mags and 2 days of drills “refresher training” is joke, any other country in the world would have 4-8 weeks training for reservists before deployment, not 1-2 days.
As well you wrong by saying they reservists who receive few weeks training every year. No – reservists were already pulled since April on contracts… these are not reservists anymore, they are generally mobilised in “limited” mobilisation.
@L P 1. Ukraines average male age is 1 year older than Russias.
2. The only thing that validates your opinion is what you are told by your media during an active information war between the West and Russia. If you didnt notice by now everything that Ukraine/The West/NATO does is good and everything Russia does is bad. The idea of this is if the population believes in a cause they are more likely to show positive political support for their nations geopolitical goals.
3. Yes… they are reservists… Russia has 2 million active reservists, Russia hasnt used anywhere even close to that number. Russia had the initial invasion force which were current contracted personnel, they had the DPR, LPR militias etc, the Mercenaries eg. wagner. etc. I believe the voluntary group you are referring to is the 3rd army corps that was recruited during the invasion to bolster up forces, a force of around 40,000 that were pulled from all oblasts as volunteers. Those guys were a total different entity to Russias active reservists.
4. My last point will be, how much training has most of the current Ukrainian forces had? weeks at most. And nearly all of them had zero military training or experience before the invasion. So anything you could speculate about Russias reservists i could say the same about the guys who were plucked out of Ukraines population.
@Gadi premikudu Just throwing men at it bairly a success and resulted in no more men to serve late 44. If I can recall right. It was competent commanders and better training that truly started working the best.
@RedRocket4000 I agree. It bought time last time, and that may be the plan again. Winter is coming.
Imagine what experienced Russian soldiers and commanders think of this. Not that there’s any left or that they’re allowed to speak up in the first place.
I watch another channel that intercepts and translates some of the conversations the Russians have back at home. One of the issues is that Russians have is that they have no concept of op security. Some of the conversations are out of this world.
One mother said the that told her soldier son that she will disown him if he retreats bc he was a “traitor” in a past life and tarot cards told her her son must fight in the war.
One soldier phoned a friend to tell him how bad it was, they were being encircled and that out of 50 men in his unit they only have 24 left. The “friend” told the soldier to stop complaining, pick up 1000 ammo and go fight.
And one conversation of another mother was telling her soldier son how there was no Ukrops(derogatory term for Urkainian) left and they are only fighting German, American and other NATO pro military. Despite her son who is on the front lines, telling her otherwise, she told him to stop lying to her. I guess that is what she is hearing on the TV or something.
To answer your question. One Ruasian soldier stated when he got some of the new mobiles as reinforcements is that after a few moments of shelling, they just walk up and leave their positions on the battlefield. So they are untrustworthy.
@The Psychic Spoon
“Insights from Ukraine and Russia” YouTube channel is a real treasure! 😀
As my dad used to say about the draft “alive, warm, and breathing “ are the only requirements. It is truly disgusting the disregard showed by the Russian government
I wonder if part of Putin’s strategy is to get rid of either potential dissidents and/or to simply get anyone with any hint of military training out of town.
My heart goes out to all the human beings caught up in the drama of the rich and powerful who use others lives like pawns. Sad
Now you get it. T y ❤
So, if an army invaded your homeland, what would you do? Complain about the rich and powerful and run like a coward, no doubt.
@Robin Lillian I would not make bio labs so that they come I’d follow treatys. and not do deals with democracy who are crazy as hell
When I did my conscription in the Bundeswehr in the late 80s, we had 6 weeks of “green” training (general combat training with hand weapons and up to 72 hours of field training sessions – in the winter below freezing temperatures in my case – only sleeping for a few hours each night in our “Dackelgarage”, the two man BW tents, while on constant watch for the simulated enemy and having fire-fights with them – of course with blanks – at night time, too), followed by another 6 weeks of basic training in your actual combat role (in my case this was artillery), again with a LOT of field training and shooting our 105 mm howitzers with live ammunition on military training grounds a few times. All of that intermixed with classroom training of basic tactics, decision making, rights and duties as a German soldier and even some legal topics. After that, we had another YEAR of getting everything ingrained into your routine (I think I would still be able to disassemble and reassemble a G3 in pitch black conditions without any issues, and that´s over 30 years later…). And yes, this was CONSCRIPTION. The people who signed up for a longer duty got even more training.
Our Batteriefeldwebel (“battery sergeant major” or “first sergeant”) had a nice big aerial photo in his office (about 1.5 m wide) which showed the border of a forest with a dirt road in front of it on which you could see his Unimog standing there and him waving to the camera and grinning. What you DIDN´T see on the photo (at least not without using a very good magnifying glass), was the NINE camouflaged 105 mm howitzers in fire positions and the NINE camouflaged 7 ton MAN trucks for towing them which were just at the border of the forest besides the road as well – and were distributed over the whole length of that big poster…
At that time I felt quite confident to be able to survive at least for some time in the case a real conflict had broken out, but those guys? Yep, that´s called cannon fodder, sorry.
What!!! A very long story, only to end at cannon fodder. Sad. ☹️
Which unit were you in, “Das Reich”?
@D rop There is no conscription anymore for the Bundeswehr. We were talking about cold war times. And if you open any history book you would find that Germany did not invade any other country for 77 years. TerroRuSSia in this time invaded Hungary, Czechoslovakia and many more. Hope this answers the question.
Comparing the average German soldier to the average Russian soldier is like comparing a BMW to a Lada.
Sad that they’re sending these innocent young men into a war zone without any training at all,God bless these guys and God bless Ukraine for even having to fight for their land and freedom
No one will ever know the true amount of souls lost in this unimaginable war.
My father was a paratrooper in the Swedish army in the 90’s, thad a one time military training together with Russia (and many other countries) back then. One encounter he had with one of the Russian officers that he often told me, was that the Russians Officers had asked my fathers Swedish officer how many accidents they normally had on training operations and that they counted with maybe 10 accidents. The Swedish soldiers became shook when they figured out that the Swedish officer thought it was about smaller injuries, while the Russian officer meant deaths.