Ukraine has been rationing ammunition and bullets; meanwhile the Russian army has been using ‘human wave’ tactics by sending poorly trained recruits to the frontline in a bid to force Ukraine use up all of its ammunition.
In Ukraine, the army has been on the backfoot over the last few months; and despite the US package of $61 billion (€56.6 billion) of military support, experts say it will be sufficient merely to hold the frontline and possibly regain some lost territory.
The situation has deteriorated in large part due to a serious shortage of ammunition and weapons from Western allies; where Ukrainian forces say they have been rationing bullets.
Ukraine has been forced to abandon territory westward beginning with Avdiivka in Donetsk region in February.
Due to a distinct lack of military support, Russia has gained and maintained momentum.
Must feel great to be one of those poorly trained Russians, knowing your only job is to be a bullet magnet.
Questionable if the are fully aware what their role is. I’m sure they know their lot in life is to serve, but do they know they are suicide troops?
I doubt they are explicitly told they are cannon fodder.
But I also doubt they have been offered a lot of other options, either.
“Fight and maybe die, or refuse and guaranteed you will die a slow painful death in a gulag.”
I’m sure their level of awareness vary quite a bit. I didn’t mean to imply they’re all aware.
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And yet they keep going.
Propaganda is a hella of a thing
So is getting shot in the back.
The actual incentive is money. Army service pays so much more than average salary in the underdeveloped/depressed regions (kinda like in the US actually)
And the inherent threat to ones family if you resist