AgLA06 said:CondensedFoggyAggie said:
"I fought in the war for 5 minutes, asked to stay on Ukrainian side" - Russian soldier in capture
Surprisingly interesting interview. Russian soldier is continuously lied to, his tank hit by an RPG, surrenders, and now helps the Ukes maintain and fix armored vehicles.
This is nuts and sounds like the norm for conscripts and recent enlistment.
They lie to them about the contracts, pay, and where they will be stationed.
Soviet era equipment and clothes. 1/3 of which was operable and according to him, every one had something broken.
They give the little to no training and got zero live fire training. In his case 15 minutes of practice time driving a tank a day for a week before being shipped to the front.
Only had limited ammo and no contact with infantry support. Believes his tank group was used as bait to locate / draw Ukrainian fire. He was the only one to survive.
They are told not to surrender because of pending torture and death by Ukrainians and given grenades to end it.
Turns out everything Russia told him was a lie and he'd prefer to earn Ukrainian trust and stay to help them instead of getting shipped back. Especially considering Ukrainian troops tried, but Russians wouldn't exchange him or recover their dead.
I repeat, nuts!
and that guy was being enlisted back in the spring when things were going great for the Russkies!
imagine the clusterF that is going on right now with drafted conscripts being handed rusty rifles.
