At the end of August it was reported that russia was likely to deploy unformed 3rd Army Corps, allegedly equipped with modern weapons and ammunition. 3rd Army Corps was one and a half divisions of 10-12 thousands russians, which were supposed to “fill the gaps” on the front.
After a month of active counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 3rd Army Corps collapsed, according to morning report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine October 5. This military formation doesn’t exist anymore.
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The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces explains this by the fact that they had obsolete technologies and demoralized personnel, which abused alcohol, disobeyed the commanders and wilfully left theirs positions. In addition, russia’s lack of experienced officers that can deal with equipment and staff right. The quality of russian army: combat capability, command efficiency won’t improve by increasing the quantity of mobilized russians because of unskilled officers.
It took 4 month for russian federation to form army corps of 10-12 thousands troops. But it took 1 month for the Armed Forces of Ukraine to destroy the formation. So, according to the statistics, the duration of stay of new “partially mobilized” units on the territory of Ukraine is their preparation term divided by 4. Some of them become either Cargo 200, 300 or rats leaving the sinking ship.
There are a lot of videos on the net showing Ukrainian soldiers carrying equipment left by russians with the Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicles or even armoured personnel carriers. That means russian personnel units easily collapse under the first echelon of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacks.
Indeed, September 2022 russian army is still able to fight and Ukraine loses people advancing on the east. But it’s not March 2022 russian army, which have been ready to aggressively move forward to Kherson despite the losses from the Su-25 fighter jets and the Bayraktar UAV. Battles have been fought for a week. Final result of the battle of Kyiv haven’t been revealed by the end of March.
Nowadays, russia “fills the gaps” with BARS legions recruited from “hidden mobilisation” because of demolished divisions.
In August russia deployed 4 “cossack legions” totalling 5 thousands people, equipped with left overs of 1st and 2nd Army Corps. Personnel for this units had also been recruited from “hidden mobilisation”. But seems like they appeared to be even worse than 1st and 2nd Army Corp divisions.
According to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the russian federation have decided to transfer the remnants of the troops from Syria and the national guard of the russian federation from Siberia, which isn’t even able to fight as light infantry. It’s hard to transfer troops from Siberia and Syria. Apparently, Kremlin gathers the army to the maximum because understands that “partial mobilisation” still isn’t enough as their quantity doesn’t cover poor quality.
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