EKO HOT BLOG reports that Russia has been facing accusations of throwing its troops into Ukraine without appropriate training and equipment to cope with the arrival of brutal winter conditions.
Russia has been suffering crushing push-backs from Ukraine’s defence forces, who last month reclaimed the city of Kherson after eight months of occupation.
In addition to the military defeats, conscripts brought in to strengthen the numbers of the Russian Army opened up a new front as they took to social media to lament the lack of equipment and training they were provided with.
Security expert Robert Fox said reports are now emerging of Russian soldiers “dying of hypothermia” because of the inappropriate kit Vladimir Putin’s Army as provided them.
Speaking to LBC, the Evening Standard correspondent said: “For the Russian troops, there is now quite significant evidence of ill-equipped, particularly recruits getting…even in the training camps, dying of hypothermia.
“That is really quite something. Inadequate sleeping bags, inadequate clothing and suffering from the cold.
They find it difficult fighting in the cold but the fighting is going on.”
He noted that despite Russia’s ongoing strikes targeting energy infrastructure in Ukraine, locals have been able to rely on the support of neighbouring countries to provide domestic generators.
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