A RUSSIAN SOLDIER’S NEWLY TRANSLATED ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE REVEALS THE POOR STATE OF RUSSIA’S MILITARY
Hope Seck | May 25, 2023
More than a year into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the account of Pavel Filatyev, a former Russian soldier, confirms all the reports about the poor condition of Russia’s military. Filatyev talks about how low the morale among Russian troops is, how poorly trained and equipped the troops are – and more.
“It seems that the corruption and mess in the army is costing too much,” Filatyev laments in an account of a friendly-fire incident in a 140-page personal account published to social media last year. Elsewhere, he reports that soldiers are choosing to shoot themselves in the foot in order to take themselves out of the fight and collect injury compensation pay.
“During war we must not forget about the accompanying hunger, disease, sleepless nights, unsanitary conditions, and life with constant adrenaline, which consumes resources of your body, giving strength, speed, and reaction,” Filyatev writes. But then when you come back from the war zone, you feel like a squeezed lemon and realize that your health is not that good at all.”
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