Russia has got so desperate it has had to return to one of the old-fashioned ways to hold bullets and guns during a war.
The Soviet army had to start out using donkeys and horses to hold ammunition in Ukraine – something that hasn’t been done for over a century.
Military blogger Kirill Fedorov wrote on his Telegram channel that Putin and his soldiers have began to send the animals to the front line.
He said that an official government transport list says these animals include horses, camels and deer.
He wrote: ‘The fighters got a donkey to deliver ammunition to the front line. What did you expect? Cars are briefly supply these day.’
Ukrainian official Anton Gerashchenko also shared a social media video showing Russian soldiers riding donkeys.
A soldier’s candid video commentary reveals the bizarre move and said: ‘I heard it, then saw it, and was f****** stunned. Just accept it as reality. Don’t ask where, why, who, or how. F*** knows.
‘But the very fact is, we’ve been given a donkey. We’re really battling transportation, right?’
Russian vehicle losses have exceeded 15,000 and stocks of vehicles ran low at the tip of last yr.
Industrial managers have also been blamed, in keeping with Russian war corespondent Roma Sapozhnikov.
He wrote: ‘The sensation is that those that are accountable for rearming the military with [armored fighting vehicles] and tanks … froze and abstracted themselves from the issues of the front and the armed forces of the warring country.’
Gerashchenko added that Russia is ‘rolling back to the times of the Russian Empire.’
While there may be evidence of animals getting used on Ukraine’s front line, others have said that this may very well be an area initiative, quite than a nationwide strategy.
A military expert told Novaya Gazeta Europe: ‘A donkey or a horse will have the option to beat the impassable roads in muddy conditions and deliver, for instance, food or ammunition to a stronghold positioned in a forest plantation removed from the roads.’
The expert added they could use the animals to navigate difficult terrain in certain areas.
Animals like horses, donkeys and camels are higher fitted to muddy fieldsand terrain where vehicles would get stuck.
It is not any secret that Russia has been struggling on Ukraine’s front line in recent times.
In October 2024, footage emerged of a whole bunch of North Korean troops preparing to go to Russia.
An authority previously told Metro that the event, while worrying, just isn’t surprising.
He explained North Korean troops joining Russia’s efforts in Ukraine is a ‘natural progression.’
In February, a Western official said Russia was struggling to supply enough ammunition and weapons in its war with Ukraine.
Also in recent months, multiple Russian arms depots storing munitions for the war in Ukraine were destroyed in kamikaze drone strikes – further lowering Putin’s stockpiles.
Ukrainian invasions into Kursk Oblast in Russian territory could have ‘inadvertently’ dragged North Korea into the war, the Institute for the Study of War said.
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