A new video that has surfaced on social media captured the almost surreal moment, showing a group of Russian soldiers waiting for a Ukrainian grenade to fall on them without trying to run for their lives.

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As can be clearly seen in the footage, the Russian military can see both the Ukrainian drone flying above them and the moment when it launches what looks like a hand grenade, to which Ukrainian operators have attached “wings”. Although the Russian soldiers appear to have stirred when they saw the bomb falling on them, none of them made any effort to jump out of the crater where they were hiding together.

Paul Jawin’s account, which posted the video along with many other footage of the fighting in Ukraine, said it was about a group of Russian soldiers who survived after their BMP was destroyed in a botched assault attempt.

However, such claims cannot be independently verified, and precise geolocation of the frame is not possible due to the narrow frame of the frame.

Russian soldiers, victims of the cold?

Many netizens commented on the video that the Russian soldiers would not have tried to escape because they were “petrified” from the cold, which could also explain why they were all stuck together in the crater left by the artillery blast (try to keep warm).

Moreover, the recording shows that the Russian soldiers, although they look rather thickly dressed, do not have winter equipment with a specific white camouflage, but summer-autumn uniforms of khaki color.

In December, Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted for the first time that since September 21, when he ordered a partial mobilization, there had been problems with the equipment of the soldiers, after numerous videos that Russian recruits themselves shared on social media showed.

At the same time, at a conference he held in Bishkek during an official visit to Kyrgyzstan, the head of the Kremlin assured that some problems with the supply of 300,000 mobilized “reservists” are easing.

A few days later, Putin instructed the Russian government to create a so-called working group to coordinate issues related to the mobilization and training of mobilized reservists in response to numerous complaints from Russian conscripts and soldiers.

Russia says it will “crush” the Ukrainian army

At the end of December, Putin appointed one of his most loyal associates, Dmitry Medvedev, as the first deputy head of the Military Industry Committee, a newly created permanent body for coordinating state policy in the field of the Military Industry, Military Industry. support for defense, national security and law enforcement.

Theoretically, it is this body that should be engaged in providing the fighters at the front with the necessary equipment.

The commission under the leadership of Putin himself also includes Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu, Chief of the General Staff General Valery Gerasimov, Secretary of the Security Council Mykola Patrushev, heads of the Foreign Intelligence Service, FSB, National Guard and other high-ranking officials from Moscow. .

Medvedev said last Thursday that Russian arms manufacturers would “significantly” increase their supplies this year to help Russian forces inflict a “devastating defeat” on Ukraine.

“Our armed forces regularly receive new deliveries of several types of missiles. In 2023, supplies of all types of weapons will increase significantly,” he wrote on his Telegram channel, posting several photos of him visiting an arms factory.

Western capitals and some military analysts say Russia’s military is running out of ammunition and other military equipment after millions of shells and thousands of rockets have been fired since the start of the war.

Russian officials, however, claim that Moscow’s forces still have enough resources to continue the “special forces operation” in Ukraine.

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