Discontent in the Russian Ranks

Tanks to the front with the cemetery in the foreground, somewhere in Russia

Two stories emerged today, plus other data, that point to deeper moral problems. The first is about desertion. According to Yigal Levin:

General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: more and more cases of desertion of occupiers in the Luhansk region, creates additional patrols for the return of deserters in part of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

Other sources talk that at least one in four soldiers is looking for a way out. Of course, there is surrender, but that’s not particularly safe. Not because Ukraine will kill them, but because surrender itself can be dangerous.

This brings me to another story and Russian history:

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Eight mobilized people who left Luhansk region with weapons were detained in the Moscow region — Baza

According to the telegram channel, eight men aged 20 to 44 came on the evening of December 26 to the police department in Podolsk with machine guns and machine guns and said that they wanted to surrender their weapons.

It turned out that almost all of them were mobilized in the Kaliningrad region and after training were sent to Lugansk.

Now the mobilized have been sent to one of the military units of the Moscow region, where they will wait for the decision…