Internal friction between elements of different Russian units is increasing
26.08.2022
Russian federal regions are continuing additional recruitment of future occupiers for volunteer battalions. These forces continue to deploy to training grounds ahead of deployment to Ukraine.
Meanwhile, internal friction between elements of different units is increasing in Putin’s army. This is stated in the summary of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
According to information from Russian propaganda resources, Primorsky Krai’s military commissioner announced that 140 people (half of the 280 target) have signed up for Primorsky Krai’s “Arsenyevskyi” volunteer repair battalion.
Also, Chelyabinsk’s military commissar is conducting additional recruitment drives for the “Yuzhnouralets” and “Yuzhnyi Ural” volunteer battalions, one of which ISW previously reported has already deployed to a training ground and the other of which is still forming.
Furthermore, the “Orlovskyi” volunteer battalion has deployed to a base in Russia prior to deploying to Ukraine on August 25. Russian media also reported that Bashkortostan’s “Shaimuratov” and “Dostavalov” volunteer battalions are completing their training and will deploy to Ukraine at an unspecified date in the near future.
At the same time, Internal friction between elements of different Russian conventional forces, special forces, private military company (PMC) workers, and national guard elements may be increasing.
The ISW cited the example of an unconfirmed Twitter post, which cited sources within the 22nd Spetznaz Brigade, claimed that relations between Russian Spetznaz units are breaking down, as are relationships between Spetznaz units and PMC elements.
The post claims that a conflict between groups from two Spetznaz brigades and a PMC unit turned into an armed fight when one Spetznaz unit sided with the PMC unit instead of the other Spetznaz unit. The Russian military leadership is leveraging PMC elements such as the Wagner Group and Spetznaz as key manoeuvre elements,” the analysts noted.
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This is not an army, this is a ragtag, gang of crooks. It will never be anything except a gang of criminals. No training and no brainwashing can change that. Its talents are not fighting like a regular armed force, but to murder unarmed civilians, to rape women and children and to loot stores and private homes. And, as we see, to kill each other. I wish they were much more successful with the latter talent.
I hope their ability to kill each other gets better with age and as they keep doing it. After all the Russians are getting really good at firing their own missiles onto their own vermin.
You gotta hand it to the orcs; there’s not much left what they haven’t screwed up yet.
And things will likely just get worse with poor training and no troop rotations. Meanwhile the UA forces work 90 days then get 10 days off and can’t wait to return to the meat grinder and make more fertilizer.