Col. Gen. Ramzan Kadyrov, vowed Russian troops would conquer all of Ukraine, and that his troops would not take prisoners in battle, but “we will burn them” all.
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/10/russia-and-ukraine-are-headed-for-a-winter-nuclear-war-of-hell/
...I saw that too...
...it is always the grunts that get tossed into the meat grinder...
..,I agree...
...thoroughly depressing....
It's happening on both sides. The freshly recruited Russians are being sent in with basically nothing.
They're mostly from eastern Russia and from small villages.
The winter is about to slow this thing to a halt and both sides are throwing whatever they deem expendable in before it does... either to push the lines a little bit further or to create less mouths to feed... neither side seems to give a shit.