According to the Reuters news agency, conscripts in the Russian-backed Donbass region have been deployed to the front lines to fight Ukrainian forces, but only armed with weapons developed in the late 19th Century!
Some conscripts on the Russian side were even given the Mosin rifle, which was manufactured by the Russian Empire in the 1880s.
This weapon ceased to be produced decades ago after the Second World War.
“It was like we were using muskets to fight in World War Two,” one of the students who joined the conscription in Donbass told Reuters.
A local resident cycles past a burned armored vehicle during the Ukraine-Russia conflict in the separatist-controlled town of Volnovakha in Donetsk region, Ukraine March 15, 2022. Photo: Reuters
Another student who enlisted at the end of February 2022 said he was told by his teammates to prepare to repel a melee attack by Ukrainian forces in the Southwest Donbass but said “I don’t even know how to fire a weapon.” automatic gas”.
The student and his unit fought back and fortunately were not captured, but were still wounded in a subsequent battle. He did not say when the fighting took place.
Some Donbass conscripts were assigned the extremely dangerous task of drawing enemy fire towards them so that other units could locate Ukrainian forces and bomb them.
The Donbass Armed Forces are fighting alongside Russian soldiers in Ukraine but are not part of the Russian Army and have different regulations on sending troops to battle.
However, according to Reuters, the news that conscripts are untrained and poorly equipped but are still deployed in combat is another sign that Russia has encountered a problem of military resource strain such as: as the war dragged on.
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