Let's take a look at who Russia uses for cannon fodder...
Desperate Putin throwing drugged separatists into line of fire as ‘cannon fodder’
VLADIMIR PUTIN has reportedly begun using drugged up soldiers in his latest plan to turn the tide in his Ukraine war.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1...ugged-separatists-line-of-fire-desperate-plan
Putin’s Russian-backed separatists are reported to be facing massive casualties on the front lines in
Ukraine, according to official figures. There are accusations that the Kremlin is using the men as “cannon fodder” to draw out Ukrainian troops.
The separatists are desperately under-equipped with reports emerging that some soldiers are fighting with World War II era rifles.
The soldiers are untrained and many are said to have been forcibly conscripted to fight in Putin’s war.
One Donetsk commander called the frontline a “meat grinder” for his men, lamenting the lack of training.
In a video posted online, he said: “More than 90 per cent of the people here have not fought at all…it was the first time they had seen a Kalashnikov.”
One Ukrainian soldier told The Telegraph that the separatists were used for “suicidal missions”, even being throw into the line of fire so Russian commanders could spot Ukrainian artillery.
He said: “They literally don’t have helmets or armoured vests, and they are being sent to provoke us to start firing.”
“We just kill them like pieces of meat ,but then the witches [Russian drones] detect us and know our position and they start shelling exactly where we are at that moment.”
He claimed that the separatists must be “high on something” as they rushed the Ukrainian positions with almost no support.
He said: “I really have the impression that they are high on something, because I just can’t understand how people without any armour just walk straight at us. We feel like we can just kill them like targets at a shooting range.”
As more western artillery arrives with better range and accuracy than the Russian artillery -- the situation will go downhill significantly for Russia and they will be on the defensive.
