Excerpts from an incredible exchange between South Ossetian “President" Anatoly Bibilov and a group of soldiers who refused to fight in Ukraine for lack of weapons, comms, and command. They told him that Russia is losing the war. zona.media/article/2022/0…
The exchange is more honest and direct than anything you’d expect in this breakaway statelet. Bibilov criticizes individual soldiers for returning from the front and complaining about problems in combat. The soldiers push back, describing absolute chaos.
“You probably don’t know this, but a lot of guys have already come to me, asking to be sent [to the front], and they’re not talking about money or ‘Give us weapons.’” Trying to shame the soldiers for requesting weapons!!
The soldiers told Bibilov how they were deployed to areas 800 kilometers away from where they were supposed to be, artillery fire missed targets by 2 kilometers, but officers didn’t care, and groups were constantly ambushed due to the lack of battlefield intel. An utter mess.
In late March, roughly 300 soldiers from South Ossetia refused to fight under these conditions and returned home. About 100 have since reenlisted and some of these guys are already back at the front. A couple dozen are still disputing their dishonorable discharges in court.
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