1/ The rifle regiments of Russia's 51st and 3rd armies (formerly the 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the LPR and DPR) are facing a "catastrophic shortage of people and material support", due to losses and disorganisation, according to a source in one of the regiments. ⬇️ 
2/ The Russian 'Ghost of Novorossia' Telegram channel reports the account of a signalman from one of the regiments, with whom it says "we have been working for a very long time". The man's identity is not being disclosed in order to protect him from retaliation by his superiors.
3/ "If you have the opportunity, help raise the following SYSTEMIC PROBLEM of the former regiments of the mobilisation reserve of the people's republics, and now separate rifle regiments. They have a neutered STAFFING table, both in terms of people and material resources.
4/ "If we adhere to the formal staffing table according to the law, then these regiments were created and continue to exist with very limited combat capability. Specific examples:
5/ "1. There is no regular artillery in the separate rifle regiments at all, not even mortars. What is available is freelance and can be withdrawn from the unit at any time. Supplying ammunition to freelance artillery is a separate semi-legal quest.
6/ "People are accordingly officially listed as who-where and are in limbo.
2. There is no UAV service at all. What is available is freelance and comes from volunteers and personal funds of servicemen. People - see above.
2. There is no UAV service at all. What is available is freelance and comes from volunteers and personal funds of servicemen. People - see above.
7/ "3. There is no air defence service and means at all. People - see above.
4. There is no NBC protection service at all. (But at least they issued gas masks here - the only bright spot).
4. There is no NBC protection service at all. (But at least they issued gas masks here - the only bright spot).
8/ "5. The regimental command is neutered - there is no operations department (all the work is at the General Staff and the Defence Staff).
9/ "6. Communications at the regimental command level should be provided by only a few people - and this is instead of a communications company or at least a full-fledged platoon. The material base according to the staffing is from the times of Afghanistan.
10/ "Everything else is unstaffed and comes at the expense of volunteers and personal funds of military personnel. People - see above.
11/ "7. With the medical service - the situation is similar according to the staffing.
And such examples can be dug up even more than both for the STANDARD material base and for the STANDARD of people.
And such examples can be dug up even more than both for the STANDARD material base and for the STANDARD of people.
12/ "If this problem is treated with more or less understanding, then the holes are plugged by seconding people from the line battalions, but this also does not completely solve all the problems - a catastrophic shortage of people and material support.
13/ "People who are engaged in freelance work are actually in limbo. If a situation develops, as in the 87th Separate Rifle Regiment, then the result is very sad."
14/ Although the source doesn't go into detail about the causes of these problems, the former 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the LPR and DPR were only recently converted into regular Russian combined arms armies. They were previously subordinated to Russia's 8th Combined Arms Army.
15/ This process of consolidation would have included (in theory) increasing the staffing of the former corps by adding additional regiments, brigades and divisions. However, it seems from this account that there is a critical shortage of staffing across the two new armies. /end
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