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Sep 8 4 tweets 3 min read
A #Russian source:
1/
A scattered description of a #DNR infantry coy (Feb-Sept 2022)
⁃ Feb: combat experience: 3-5 men
⁃ any military service: further 15
⁃ coy HQ: 2 reserve officers, no experience
⁃ in 6 months: shrank from 100+ to 60+ men
2/
⁃ medical verification: positive if younger than 70 yo, a must is head, two hands, two legs
- majority: no leaves for 6 months
- weapons: AK-74, no mortars, two grenade launchers
- no bulletproof vests, comms, NVGs, drones, mines, winter BDUs
- one binocular
3/
⁃ unit initially responsible for rear area security, now it’s #Rosgvardya responsibility, coy/regt went to frontline attached to a regular 🇷🇺 BTG (50 men, incl. about 25 officers, no new personnel for 6 months)
⁃ coy covers 1500m frontline, no forward fire controllers
4/
- tactics: if attacked call (field landline) for reinforcements
⁃ in combat nobody surrendered
- coy finally disintegrated.
cc @STRATPOINTS_EU @TheStudyofWar @DefenceHQ @general_ben @WarintheFuture @MarkHertling
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