{"id":120964,"date":"2023-11-02T21:19:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T21:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uklevitrasupport.com\/?p=120964"},"modified":"2023-11-02T21:19:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T21:19:16","slug":"russian-storm-z-fighters-are-just-meat-and-being-wiped-out-in-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uklevitrasupport.com\/world-news\/russian-storm-z-fighters-are-just-meat-and-being-wiped-out-in-masses\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Storm-Z fighters are just meat and being wiped out in masses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soldiers try to escape burning Russian trench<\/h3>\n

A once-elite part of the Russian military has now been reduced to “meat” to be thrown into battle in Ukraine, according to reports.<\/p>\n

Russia has used soldiers from its ‘Storm Z assault companies’ to try and push back Ukrainian troops as part of its invasion.<\/p>\n

The first Storm Z units were formed in October 2022 when Russia was recruiting prisoners for the military.<\/p>\n

This came after Yevgeny Prigozhin of the Wagner Group was pictured recruiting convicts to join his mercenary group.<\/p>\n

‘Storm Z’ units have been defined in Moscow as \u201ca temporarily created independent, combined-arms unit outside the regular army structure for immediate operational tasking to carry out particularly complex combat missions\u201d.<\/p>\n

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A unit is comprised of 100 to 150 personnel organized within a flexible structure depending on the type of mission they are being sent on.<\/p>\n

Documents reported on by the Kyiv Post indicate soldier contracts in Storm Z units are supposed to be six months.<\/p>\n

But, it has been reported that many prisoners who have joined up to fight are forced to stay on the frontline.<\/p>\n

Storm Z units are also usually poorly trained.<\/p>\n

These men are typically sent to the most exposed parts of the front and sustain heavy losses as a result.<\/p>\n

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One soldier told Reuters that \u201canyone with the smell of alcohol on their breath\u201d, could be immediately sent to a Storm-Z squad.<\/p>\n

Another soldier said: \u201cStorm fighters \u2013 they\u2019re just meat.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Ukraine’s most recent counteroffensive has not achieved what many in the country hoped it would, Russian soldiers are also being bogged down by the brutality of the war.<\/p>\n

A US-based think tank, The Institute for the Study of War, has said that Russian military units are undermanned and some battalions, brigades, or regiments exist in name only.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Defence in the UK has also said that Russian nationalist \u2018mil bloggers\u2019 have been very critical of Russia’s military tactics.<\/p>\n