DRUNK Russian conscripts have been filmed staggering, fighting and falling asleep while being packed onto school buses amid Vladimir Putin’s chaotic military mobilization.
This week, Putin announced the . at partial mobilization of his countrywith claims at least 300,000 men could be registered for the frontline in Ukraine.
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But video inside Russia reveals that Vlad’s recruits are far from ready for battle.
Mobilized men are expected to receive only two weeks of training before being shipped to Ukraine, compared to the minimum six months of training usually provided.
In one clip, we see drunken men fighting each other next to a bus that takes them to a training camp.
A man wearing a military uniform tries to keep order as the new recruits scramble with each other and at one point push the recruiter.
Next to the group of fighters are boxes of supplies.
It is not clear where the clip was shot.
Another video shows drunken new soldiers loudly asking where they are being taken as they stand next to a row of buses on a remote road in Russia.
One of the recruits curses in Russian: “What are we going for? Where are we going? Damn it!”
A third video shows several drunken conscripts at the Dolinsk-Sokol airbase in Sakhalin, Russia’s far east.
In the footage, in which men are led across the airport, one recruit yells at himself while another staggers around and at one point nearly falls over.
A third can no longer stand and appears to have passed out in the grass next to the airport.
Other images show recruits being led in crumbling yellow school buses due to a shortage of military vehicles in Russia.
What are we going for? Where are we going? Damn know!
Russian soldier
It’s because many Russian men have looked for ways to avoid conscription and avoid being sent to Ukraine to die.
The Russian death toll in Ukraine is already estimated at more than 56,000, with tens of thousands more injured.
Reports claim Russian men are hastily married or registering themselves as caregivers of older children in an effort to get out of the war.
Google searches for “how to break your arm at home” have skyrocketed in Russia since Putin’s announcement this week.
Meanwhile there are huge traffic jams at the borders and a hurry to buy flights from Russia while men try to beat the border before leaving the country.
The Russian army is notorious for its hazing ritualsincluding rape, torture and theft.
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Russia’s need for military recruits is so desperate that convicts in some of the country’s most notorious high-security penal colonies have been given their freedom in exchange for fighting.
One of the prisoners who reportedly signed up for the war is a… notorious cannibal serial killer Yegor Komarov, arrested after a decapitated body rolled out of his car.
the infamous Wagner GroupPutin’s private army, gives prisoners, including murderers and sex offenders, the chance for pardon if they volunteer for the war.
The Reported Leader Yevgeny Prigozhinthe man known as “Putin’s chief”, was filmed inmates tell that they will be released in Ukraine in exchange for six months.
But he warns that those who change their mind or try to run away will be immediately shot as deserters.
In the meantime, more than 1,000 protesters have been arrested in Russia after a series of demonstrations across the country against Putin’s mobilization orders.
Some of those arrested are even said to have received their conscription papers at the police station before being sent to training camps.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has told Russian troops they have “options” if they want to survive.
In a direct appeal to Vlad’s troops on his Telegram page, Zelensky said: “Do you want more? No? Then protest. Fight back. Run away. Or surrender to Ukrainian captivity.
“These are options for you to survive.”
And he described Putin’s decision to mobilize 300,000 reservists as a “candid admission that their regular army, prepared for decades to take over a foreign country, failed to resist and collapsed”.
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