Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Russia is throwing scarce specialist troops into bloody 'meat assaults' made necessary by commanders' false claims to have captured areas that are still held by Ukrainian forces, according to a Russian officer. ⬇️

2/ According to ex-Wagner commander and milblogger Andrey Medvedev, an officer serving with the Russian Army's Central Military district has written to him to say:

3/ "Our division command decided to take extreme measures that defy common sense. Namely, to form assault groups and reserves from among specialists from other units that do not belong to motorised rifle and assault units.

4/ "It is impossible to retrain personnel as stormtroopers at a training ground in a week, with subsequent use of hastily formed units, and to liberate (occupy) strategically important heights in the area of ​​responsibility."

5/ Medvedev explains further: "So, the command decided to take experienced fighters - artillerymen, signalmen, motor mechanics, driver drivers, well-coordinated artillery system calculations, including MLRS [rocket artillery systems] – and hastily form assault groups from them."

6/ The officer says that he does "not want to belittle the role of the infantry and heroic stormtroopers who take enemy strongholds, conduct fierce battles, force them to surrender to the enemy under artillery fire, FPV drone attacks."

7/ "We work in cooperation with the assaults constantly. But everyone must do the job that he knows, does well, has experience that he can pass on to others. For which the squad or group will confidently go into battle."

8/ Medvedev writes that the urgency is due to the need to "urgently dislodge the enemy from populated areas that, according to reports to the top, are considered liberated and are supposedly under our control."

9/ Here he is clearly referring to local commanders' frequent false reporting of military successes to their superiors. Russian soldiers and bloggers have often complained over the past 2 years that commanders' false claims to have cleared areas have caused many deaths.

10/ Medvedev notes that "every time at a meeting with the military, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief says that the most important thing for us is people. That the most important thing is to protect them in these difficult circumstances."

11/ "That there is no need to do it quickly, no need for the sake of reports, we need to protect the personnel.

But here everything is completely the opposite.

12/ "If everything is true, then it turns out that for the sake of a report, they urgently send servicemen who have no skills to the assault detachment. In all likelihood, because they have already lost part of the personnel of the assault detachments earlier.

13/ "I know where this happens. In my opinion, there is room for the work of the DVKR [military counter-intelligence].

14/ "Of course, first of all, the point is not that a soldier or officer is used not according to his military specialty. But in the facts of incorrect reports, if they really took place."

Source:
t.me/MedvedevVesti/…