Sick soldiers become cannon fodder: losses force Russia to take drastic steps. Russia is running out of soldiers and is sending sick people to the front.
A Russian soldier from the 5th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade is said to have said in a wiretapped phone call about the conditions in the Ukraine war. “They threw [the soldiers] in like meat, like cannon fodder,” said the soldier on the phone. He himself is also infected with HIV. Those who survived the front were later released into the reserves without financial support.