Russia recruits ‘football hooligans’ to expand its army

“Russia is able to conscript people that are not really trainable or able to fight well because theyre using people as battlefield meat.”

Russia is employing an “old Soviet way” of fighting the war with Ukraine which includes leaving soldiers on the battlefield to their own devices, says Ukrainian MP Kira Rudik, whose house in Kiev was recently damaged by a Russian missile strike.

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