How many Russian servicemen or ex servicemen do you know? I know hundreds. Up to the Colonel who was in charge of all Southern Russia and 4th in charge of the entire Russian army( I taught his son English). I speak Russian, lived there for 7 years, lived in other countries of the former Soviet Union for another 7. Soviet and Russian incompetence is legendary. I could spend a whole afternoon recalling all the tales I heard. .it is an insult to intelligent and an insult to all the wounded, dead, drug addicted who spent their military service in Siberia or elsewhere building a driveway to an oligarch's dacha. Let alone sent with little training or body armor into a war zone so Putin, in Stalin style, can try and trade bodies for meters.