The head of the Russian General Staff, General Valery Gerasimov, wants to introduce military training in the last two years of schooling in schools, writes The Guardian with reference to the local press. We will remind you that numerous videos that appeared on social networks show that the partial mobilization by order of Vladimir Putin on September 21 is going chaotically, recruits are being sent to the front without any preparation.

The head of the Russian army wrote to the leader of the Russian parliament, Sergei Mironov, about supporting the implementation of basic military training in schools, Izvestiya reports.

The publication cites Gerasimov’s words that 140 hours should be allocated to military training in the last two years of training.

Russian recruits thrown into battle without training and equipment

On September 21, Vladimir Putin announced the partial mobilization of several hundred thousand reservists to try to stop the flow of troops from Kyiv to Ukraine.

Numerous videos that appear on social networks show that the partial mobilization by order of Vladimir Putin is chaotic, conscripts are sent to the front without any preparation, some of them are clearly in a state of alcohol intoxication heading to the conscription points.

Military analyst and independent researcher Chris Owen wrote in an extensive analysis posted on his Twitter page shortly before Putin ordered a partial mobilization of reservists that many Russian soldiers had been sent to the front with a “joke” level of training. .

At the beginning of the invasion, some soldiers were given weapon systems they had never seen before and did not know how to use. Training activities were often falsified so that officers could report completion and evade supplies.

The soldier reported that “we arrived at the training ground and were forced to stand with a rifle at the target. As soon as you were photographed, you were released.”

This type of forgery has been reported not only by regular Russian infantry divisions, but also by Moscow’s elite units such as the Airborne Forces, indicating that the practice is widespread in the Russian military.

In late September, a Russian man who had just been drafted into the army following President Vladimir Putin’s decision to partially mobilize Russian reservists says in a video that he had no briefing or training before he was sent to Kherson.

“Hello everyone, this is the 1st Tank Regiment. We were officially told that there would be no training until we were sent to the war zone. The command of the regiment officially confirmed the information. On the 29th, we are sent to Kherson. So think and decide for yourself… what to do next,” says the Russian in a video shared by Dmytro, the founder of WarTranslated.

A video shared on social media shows other recruits at a briefing being told to get hygroscopic pads and tampons to stop bleeding if injured, while other videos on social media show the training conditions of Russian recruits who have been ordered to sign up. “Great conditions in authentic wooden barracks for an unforgettable impression of the Russian army,” says Dmytro, founder of the WarTranslated website, wryly.

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