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Originally Posted by elysiantraveller
Morale has to play a huge part.
Plus it's just overall structure of the armed force when the bulk of your soldiers are conscripts who are only in for a year and get training on the job... only catch there is no real NCO pool.
I can't stress how fucked it is they are taking men off the streets my age (late 30s), giving them a days worth of training, a rifle, and sending them to the front.
You have to really detest your own people to do stuff like that.
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Since I've gotten my war news primarily off Twitter, take this with a grain of salt. I read earlier this week that some of the new RU conscripts have already been shipped to Ukraine, and some immediately surrendered. Sounds like bs, but who knows.
I also read(more believable) that probable conscripts have been gathering info on how to surrender if they're sent to Ukraine.
Ukraine recently pubished that enemy losses are 61,000. Russian sources say it's closer to 20K. So 30-40K may be the number. And Ukr didn't say that it was 61K killed, but no longer combatants.
