5/24/2023 0 Comments Florida time zones'This has almost certainly been a key reason why no Russian formation has recently been able to generate operationally significant offensive action,' the MoD said in its latest intelligence briefing. The UK's Ministry of Defence today said that Russian ammunition shortages have 'worsened to the extent that extremely punitive shell-rationing is in force on many parts of the front'. 'It is sad that the number of exhibits of military museums will be reduced,' said one report. Some of the tanks being revamped at the 103rd Plant may be 60 years old, dating from the time Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev were ruling the USSR. The drive to retrofit the decades-old tanks highlights the desperation of Putin's military machine - while Ukraine is being supplied with the most modern Western tanks. Heavy losses on the battlefields has also forced Putin to desperately empty Russian museums of obsolete tanks to repurpose them for his flailing war effort.įootage shows ageing Soviet-era T-62s being 'modernised' in a round-the-clock factory in Chita, Siberia. However, the reports suggest females are now being deployed, although their precise role is unknown. Several hundred women in prisons in the Sverdlovsk region - in the Ural District - asked local MP Vyacheslav Wegner to send them to Ukraine, it was reported. 'It is also known that they are sent to the territory of the Russian Federation for training,' the Ukrainian general staff said. Some had been recruited from a women's penal colony in Snezhnoye, a city in the occupied Donetsk region. This was to 'compensate for losses in personnel'. Last month the Ukrainian general staff said that Russia was actively 'trying to recruit convicted women to participate in the hostilities'. However, there is now evidence that the Russian defence ministry is directly signing up convicts. This has seen murderers, rapists and other violent criminals released and ultimately freed by Putin, with most convicts serving with the Wagner private army.īut Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin claimed last month that his group will no longer recruit prisoners to fight in Ukraine - without providing an explanation as to why. Male prisoners have been recruited in Russia in their tens of thousands and offered a deal which cancels their sentences if they serve - and stay alive - for six months on the frontline. Olga Romanova, of Russian Behind Bars foundation, believes around 100 women were sent to Ukraine.
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