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<p>Men that are being conscripted into <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/mayhem-at-russian-georgian-border-as-thousands-flee-vladimir-putins-draft">Russia’s war in Ukraine</a> during Moscow’s <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/edward-snowden-granted-russian-citizenship-by-vladimir-putin-after-mass-mobilization?ref=author">“partial mobilization”</a> are allegedly being sent to the front without any training in some cases. </p>
<p>“Mobilized Russians are immediately taken to the front—without any preparation,” human rights group Perviy Otdel warned in a <a href="https://t.me/deptone/3742">Telegram post</a>. “We were officially told there would be no training before we are sent to the war zone,” one mobilized Russian said in a video shared by Perviy Otdel.</p>
<p>Basic combat training for American troops, by comparison, lasts approximately ten weeks, according to the <a href="https://www.goarmy.com/soldier-life/becoming-a-soldier/basic-combat-training.html#:~:text=Basic%20Combat%20Training%20is%20comprised,Military%20Occupational%20Specialty%20(MOS)">U.S. army</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-president-vladimir-putin-accused-of-sending-newly-drafted-troops-to-ukraine-without-any-training?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
“Mobilized Russians are immediately taken to the front—without any preparation,” human rights group Perviy Otdel warned in a Telegram post. “We were officially told there would be no training before we are sent to the war zone,” one mobilized Russian said in a video shared by Perviy Otdel.
Basic combat training for American troops, by comparison, lasts approximately ten weeks, according to the U.S. army.
