One of Russian military instructors complained in a telephone conversation that the new batch of recruits was, to put it mildly, not quite suitable for war: ‘As the colonel said, 10 days ago they gathered all the trash in Rostov. There are drug addicts, grandpas and f**king prostitutes in the form of men…’

According to him, the ‘newcomers’ have heard so much about looting by the advanced groups of occupiers that instead of shooting skills they are developing their skills in robbery. And they are doing this right at the training bases in Russia.

‘We were thinking of leaving the boats near the institute. I went to talk to the senior - there was some division deputy commander… So, I was talking to him, then we turn around: some mother**ker is already disassembling the boat! Just in plain sight! The people there are so f**king insane! They are looting from themselves!’ the instructor explained.

Perhaps, it’s just that their instinct for self-preservation - to steal their own equipment so that they are not sent to the war.