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War and the Common Russian Soldier
I would like to highlight a post of a soldier in Kherson. The channel is getting a little reflective. Realize, for most of these soldiers, breaking contract is the only way out. They have not been rotated in months.
This increasingly reminds me of World War One English poetry. Or the attitudes of American troops in Vietnam. While this soldier is still somewhat committed to the mission, this matters. It shows a slight change in attitude and reflects the reported morale problems of the Russian Federation Armed Forces.
I know when this whole war will end, when the children of high-ranking officials from both sides will sit in the tanks, then when not ordinary guys with weapons that have outlived their conceivable shelf life will go into battle, but the highest ranks of leaders who are responsible for treacherous decisions with both sides on the other hand… There are no strikes on decision-making centers, they do not want to kill their own kind. I read our military correspondents and I’m shocked at how everyone reports great successes… The situation changes every hour, and every success is a loss among our soldiers, simple guys who collect money for a fucking quadcopter so that they have something to fucking answer to all the attacks of the enemy, while there in the country the son of some deputy cuts into a Lamborghini with a purchased military ID. And let’s…