"Nothing has changed since the Second World War": Putin recruits complain about conditions in the military

Created: 01/10/2023 05:06

By: Franziska Schwarz

A video posted by Anton Gerashenko said to show two Russian recruits at the front.

© Screenshot: Twitter @Gerashenko_eng

A new clip about the conditions in the Russian army is making the rounds.

He should show two victims.

They express contempt.

Ukraine - The man has a hood pulled over his cap and is puffing on a cigarette.

He stands in a leafless forest and says to the camera: "We've been at the front for five days.

On the first day we got a snack.

That's it since.

We are starving.” His comrade holds up the smartphone.

Two Russian recruits from Yakutia in Ukraine.

The authenticity of the video could not initially be verified independently.

Anton Gerashenko, adviser to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, posted it on January 5 of the new year.

Of course, such posts in the Ukraine war should also drive the attackers into the parade.

They are frequent.

Geraschenko's tweet was shared almost 2,000 times in just four days.

Perhaps because of statements like this: "Nothing has changed in the Russian army since the Second World War." President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's adviser emphasizes this.

Russian recruits in the video: "They only show the good sides on TV"

Yakutia is a republic in Asiatic Russia.

"We're normal people who were already at war in the '90s.

And now it's us again, this time at the front in Ukraine," says the man holding the smartphone.

The conditions in the Russian infantry are "awesome," he continues.

"It's not shown on television," he says, referring to the military parade in Moscow with Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin.

“They only show the good side on TV.

But I don't believe in parades anymore.

Where is all the equipment shown there?” he complains.

The commanders are "very weak" and the whole army "a disappointment".

No food, no weapons, "not even water," adds his comrade-in-arms.

As in the Second World War, Russia's military show their equipment "only on parades".

State of the Russian military: Videos about the miserable state are piling up

Diplomacy in the Ukraine conflict is also faltering at a higher level.

Putin had announced a ceasefire in the Russian invasion two days before Christmas on January 7, which many Orthodox Christians celebrate.

From the outset, Kyiv dismissed the move as hypocritical, and many international observers also spoke of a pure propaganda gesture.

While the ceasefire was officially in effect, Moscow admitted that it would continue to counter Ukrainian attacks in the frontline.

The clip posted by Zelenskyj's adviser is one of a long line of reports on the desolate state of Putin's military: battalions are said to be severely undermanned and Russian soldiers themselves are protesting against their treatment.

Even a drunk and pyromaniac is said to have been the commander - a report that is difficult to verify, but not the first of its kind.