Russia’s Armed Forces: Unprofessional Cowards
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2022 4:59 pm
There are many signs demonstrating that the Russian armed forces are little more than murderous, incompetent cowards: tragic tales of Ukrainian women being raped, videos of captured Ukrainian soldiers being castrated, tales of looting by the Russian garbage pretending to be soldiers.
Yet, the surest sign of just how cowardly and unprofessional the invading Russians are may be seen in how they treat their own. Indeed, the true character of the Russian invaders is revealed in the thousands of dead bodies that the Russian forces casually leave behind as they flee danger.
A day after Ukrainian forces retook control of Lyman, a strategic railway hub in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, a picture began to emerge of the destruction left behind by fleeing Russian soldiers who had occupied the city for months. In a hasty withdrawal, they abandoned official documents, military vehicles and the bodies of their comrades.
… At one point, the road into town passed the remnants of what appeared to be a Ukrainian attack on Russian soldiers trying to flee the city in a civilian van. The vehicle’s doors were open and sleeping bags, pads, military coats, rations, shoes and other supplies had spilled out.
Nearby, on the side of the road, were anti-tank mines and the bodies of half a dozen Russian soldiers. A line of Ukrainian military trucks rumbled by, as a demining team checked the bodies for boobytraps, using ropes to tug and jostle them from a distance in case they exploded.
Asked how the Russians had died, one of the soldiers on the demining team shrugged. “They came to a foreign land,” he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/02 ... e-war-news
It has to be deeply embarrassing to wear a Russian uniform these days.
DocBarrister
Yet, the surest sign of just how cowardly and unprofessional the invading Russians are may be seen in how they treat their own. Indeed, the true character of the Russian invaders is revealed in the thousands of dead bodies that the Russian forces casually leave behind as they flee danger.
A day after Ukrainian forces retook control of Lyman, a strategic railway hub in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, a picture began to emerge of the destruction left behind by fleeing Russian soldiers who had occupied the city for months. In a hasty withdrawal, they abandoned official documents, military vehicles and the bodies of their comrades.
… At one point, the road into town passed the remnants of what appeared to be a Ukrainian attack on Russian soldiers trying to flee the city in a civilian van. The vehicle’s doors were open and sleeping bags, pads, military coats, rations, shoes and other supplies had spilled out.
Nearby, on the side of the road, were anti-tank mines and the bodies of half a dozen Russian soldiers. A line of Ukrainian military trucks rumbled by, as a demining team checked the bodies for boobytraps, using ropes to tug and jostle them from a distance in case they exploded.
Asked how the Russians had died, one of the soldiers on the demining team shrugged. “They came to a foreign land,” he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/02 ... e-war-news
It has to be deeply embarrassing to wear a Russian uniform these days.
DocBarrister
