1/ Mobilised Russian soldiers from Western Siberia have been 'trained' to fight in Ukraine using snowballs as grenades and practicing shooting without ammunition, according to their wives.
2/ Muksun FM, a Telegram channel reporting on affairs in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, says that local mobiks have been taken to the firing range only three times in a month, without actually firing live ammunition, and have been given menial work rather than training.
3/ One wife says:
"My husband told me that his commander ordered: "Make snowballs and throw them instead of grenades." The next time they learned to shoot blank cartridges. The third time they were given submachine guns and walked several kilometres to the range.
"My husband told me that his commander ordered: "Make snowballs and throw them instead of grenades." The next time they learned to shoot blank cartridges. The third time they were given submachine guns and walked several kilometres to the range.
4/ They stood there in the freezing cold and went back to the camp without shooting. That's their only combat training."
5/ Another woman says that the mobilised men were given menial duties all day long instead of training, such as chopping firewood, peeling potatoes and cleaning the facilities.
6/ "In a month of combat training they shoot twice and that's it. It's just a shame that someone is being trained. People go to the front trained and someone is taken to the front line without any training. In Elani they also made snowballs and threw them instead of grenades.
7/ Ridiculous. Or they were taken away to shoot, but as a result nobody was involved with them at the range. They stood in a circle, kicked some kind of tin can, that was the end of the training. And then they make us sign for the allegedly issued ammunition." /end
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