Video reveals a major problem for new Russian soldiers

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

[DavidJ]

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.

[bhew]

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).

[arnilbarbante]

A Russian soldier ran up to a nun.
Out of breath, he asked, “Please, may I hide under your skirt, I'll explain later.”
The nun agreed.
A moment later two military police ran up and asked:
“Sister, have you seen a soldier?”
The nun replied, “He went that way.”
After the military police ran off, the soldier crawled out from under her
skirt and said, “I can't thank you enough, Sister. You see, I don't want to
go to Ukraine.”
The nun said, “I understand completely.”
The soldier added, “I hope I'm not rude, but you have a great pair of legs!”
The nun replied, “If you had looked a little higher, you would've seen a
great pair of balls too. I don't want to go to Ukraine either."

[Deline]

No one will ever know the true amount of souls lost in this unimaginable war.

[Uberskull]

The total disregard the Russian rulers have for the lives of their own soldiers is such an awful thing to witness.

[idunsvardshammar]

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.

[tinderbox]

Incredible that this is still happening in 21st century Europe.

[secretweapon]

I hope those guys find a safe way to surrender quickly. Otherwise, they're simply dead and they know it.

[JMassengill]

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

[philipb]

I was drafted, and assigned to an administrative job. Day 1 was processing; day 2 had me shoot an assessment clip of 5 rounds. Before my 2 months basic training was up, I must have shot at least 200 rounds. I was meant to be far from any battlefield, yet I was better trained than these poor souls sent to the meat grinder. God protect them and keep them from taking other lives.

[NeverRubARhubarb]

In the early days of the invasion when it became clear that Kyiv would not be captured by Russian forces I remember reports that vital equipment, army rations and fuel was in desperately short supply. If Russia couldn't even feed and arm its trained soldiers at the start of this war then how the hell is it going to equip hundreds of thousands of civilian recruits almost 8 months later? And that's without even mentioning the critical need for proper training, high morale and good leadership. Russia has only one choice left - to decide when, not if, it wants to lose this war.

[neilcvernon]

Almost feel sorry for these Guys but The Russian people and Parents need to rise up against Putin to stop this madness

[AndyM_YYY]

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.

[FlecheNoire]

"Never interrupt an enemy when he is making a mistake" - Napoleon Bonaparte

[cprtrain]

Russian CANNON FODDER. What an utter disregard for life.

[ryansullivan]

I have a hearing loss, and rely on the CC to work. I couldn't understand much of what anybody said because of the low quality of the CC.

[IgorRockt]

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.

[CanalTremocos]

3 Shots.Would be criminal to put a barista on the job with that little training. Imagine a soldier.

[sanderkroon]

more concerning is the point that they don't even ask themselves why they should be there in the first place.

[TheMsLourdes]

I think this was a quiet call for help as in 'Please come take us prisoner, we're really unprepared and we'd like not to die."