During the spring/summer the Chechens represented 60% of the content for Russia on social mediaGROZNY, November 15. /TASS/. Over 20,000 Chechen fighters have fought in Ukraine since the start of Russia’s special military operation and 9,000 of them are currently on the frontline, Chechnya’s Head Ramzan Kadyrov said on Tuesday.
Just how gullible must you be to believe that Gucci kit ain't going to be taken off them the moment the cameras stop rolling :roll:Cult Icon wrote: ↑16 Nov 2022, 22:09Stavropol Reservists perform infantry training with AK-12s and in Ratnik battledress
https://rutube.ru/video/959475ede751449 ... a58f227aa/
Ukrainian Tanks Take On Inexperienced Russian Conscripts In The Kharkiv Region
The Smolensk Mobiks in your video:
Thanks for the reply, you know much more about the OOB's than I do. I only heard repeatedly about VDV in action in Kherson, allegedly for a long time without relief, and 'paratroopers', the only specific mention of a unit I saw was to the 11th VDV Brigade in Kherson region in early October.Cult Icon wrote: ↑13 Nov 2022, 15:36I am unclear about the VDV OOB at Khersonjohnwilliamhunter wrote: ↑11 Nov 2022, 17:13
Curious, according to Russian reporters the "paratroopers" I assume airborne units, were the ones covering the withdrawal and the last to leave.
They have 4 Airborne divisions and 4 Airborne brigades. I know that elements of the 76ths, 106th, and 38th were at Kherson west bank, and the Oblast itself as a whole has combat battalions from several Naval infantry brigades.
1. Command of the Airborne Forces
2. 38th Guards Control Brigade
3. 45th Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade (2 OSP)
4. 7th Guards Air Assault Division (9 air assault division, orb and detachment)
5. 76th Guards air assault division (9 dshb, orb and otb)
6. 98th guards airborne division (6 airborne assault division and orb)
7. 106th guards airborne division (6 airborne assault brigade and orb)
8. 11th separate guards air assault brigade (2 air assault brigade, air assault brigade and orb)
9. 31st separate guards air assault brigade (2 air assault brigade, air assault brigade and orb)
10. 83rd separate guards air assault brigade (2 air assault brigade, air assault brigade and orb )
11. 150th Separate Repair and Rehabilitation Battalion
12. 35th Separate Medical Detachment of the Airborne Forces
13. Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School
14. 242nd Training Center of the Airborne Forces
15. 309th Center for Special Parachute Training of the Airborne Forces
Currently the vast majority of Russian motor-rifle and armored are in Russia training with the reservists and volunteers. However it seems like a somewhat higher proportion of the Naval infantry and VDV are still operational in Ukraine.
I note the two guys closest on the right side of the table wear Ukrainian ministry of defense patches, the next two guys clockwise, the Z type patches are pasted on from a different image, and they wear American camouflage uniforms, very suspicious image, originally posted on twitter by a British guy who works in Kiev.
During the training, actions are practiced as part of a unit armed with Bumblebee rocket infantry flamethrowers. These weapons are especially effective for disabling lightly armored and automotive equipment, destroying enemy manpower.
To support the advancing motorized rifle unit, flamethrowers deliver several strikes with thermobaric rocket-propelled grenades on conditional targets and, under the cover of small arms fire, move to a new position."https://charter97.org/en/news/2022/11/15/524222/"We Have No Regiment Any More, 2,500 People Have Died'
The mobilized from Lipetsk region has described the catastrophic losses of the Russian army.
Twenty temporarily mobilized Russians from Lipetsk Region who escaped from positions near Svatove in Luhansk Region are facing criminal charges of desertion. The remaining 2,500 people from their battalion have been killed.
The Russian publication of Verstka quoted a relative of one of the servicemen as saying this. The publication also released an audio recording of a phone conversation of one of the mobilized men who managed to survive.
"We are just meat, just fucking meat, we are not considered to be people. The guys come, from one battalion alone, 15 people, 20 people come and say that's it, there are no more guys, our battalions are gone. Yesterday the commander told us: "Guys, you have to hold on for two weeks". How can we hold on for a fortnight, when we are here for 12 or so days, and we already don't have a regiment, 2500 people have died. Yesterday they took away our arms, we are already considered deserters. Those who were carrying the guys out, who are here now, say: "Put us in prison, we won't go there any more". They really say they would rather serve 10 years, but they will be alive. And they are told: 'You guys are deserters, you didn't follow the order, you left your officers who even were not there'," says the mobilized man.
Verstka claims that they are soldiers of the 2nd Commandant Company of the 362nd Motorized Rifle Regiment, who were trained at the Air Force training centre in Voronezh.
