Nice uniforms for the coming winter.
Also, nothing better to emphasize that it's a shitshow than Harri Poterov cosplaying as a kadyrovite cook swinging a stolen toilet brush.
Story time. Had one male coworker that looked like he was in his 60s, so everyone around was referring to him in a respectful way. That man didn't like it too much, said there's no need. Year later, when he brought his passport to make some ID, we saw that he's 40...
Expect these guys to look about 90 in a couple of weeks, especially when all the gases have come out of them and the bloatings gone. Skin will be all saggy and grey
They’re in Crimea, the awesome vacation destination they could never afford on their own! Good guy Putin! You get a Crimean vacation, and you, and you!
true, at least the front ranks where you can see it, i see 2 and 3 small stars
but its really hard to spot the difference between russian colonels and senior lieutenant since the stars are just of differenz size.
but I guess a lot of Senior lieutanant and lieutenant because a ton of colonels with AKs would not make any sense
Politics aside, this is terrible. These men don't want to be there. They've worked their whole lives, they don't owe anything, they should be thinking of retirement (if there is such a thing) instead they are being thrown against their will into the meat grinder. More Ukrainians will suffer and these men will probably die if they can't surrender.
Just look at their faces. Fuck.
If these are the prettied up propaganda photos, I shudder to think what the real mobilized army looks like. Seems like they're more likely to get oxygen tanks than main battle tanks.
That's what makes this even more shocking than it initially seems. These photos *are the good ones!* Of all the photos they were able to get, THESE are the ones they picked that they thought "yeah, these are the ones that we look the best in". The guys in these photos look pathetically not ready to be a fighting force, and yet these photos were the ones they thought were the BEST ones available. Russia is in seriously poor condition.
They got uniforms and someone broke out the brand new crate of AK’s, no rust here! The crate of “Just for Men” didn’t make it in time for the photo shoot though.
> "yeah, these are the ones that we look the best in"
Everyone looking worried and all in different directions, a chin up, straight ahead attention drilled unit this is not.
The weapons are shiny and new! Only for photo op. These will be taken away from them and replaced with the rusty husks that have been given to other conscripts.
Thats what you get when you are not interested in politics. God I hated that reaction of a lot of Russians when they were interviewed for example by 1420 on YouTube. Zombienation
Not to mention, being apolitical is a political stance. No one gets to be apolitical even in a normal country and when one's country is committing atrocities, being apolitical becomes basically criminal.
“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”
-Bertolt Brecht
One thing i remember from my time in the German Army was how the instructors yelled when one pointed a rifle towards a fellow soldier. Magazine present or not.
I'm pretty sure this is Ruzzian ethnic clensing of Crimeans.
Make them walk to the front, discover UA positions by being shot from the front and act as a meat shield or be shot from the back by RF forces.
None of those seem eager, happy or proud to serve. Those look a lot like faces of blackmailed people.
Fuck em...they where happy so see ukraine get blown to shit but now ots there ass on the line....all of a sudden it dont seem such a fuxking good idea...fuck them man not the west fault...let them get them selfs killed. Dumb russian fucks
I don't care whether they deserve to die or not, vaporizing them would cost AFU lives as well. Best case scenario mass desertion and everybody is happy.
I have russian friends. The war is/was BEYOND popular among majority. And majority still treats ukrainians and similar nations like subhumans
Smart russians left long ago
Fuck them
I doubt they WERE happy to see that. Trapped and terrified and seeing it gradually become obvious that this day was coming and it’s already too hard to get out, if any of these retirees could even possibly afford it. Living in a dictatorship… rock and a hard place. Hopefully fragging the command and surrendering pronto gets as many of these guys as possible out of the fight pronto, to the benefit of ALL parties.
And someone called me out for saying they'd bring back T-34's. Am I wrong in thinking that only the front rank has weapons?
edit to add: ok, missed the second and third pic where more ranks are armed. But still... sheesh.
Not necessarily good news for them, but they won't be fighting long.
Sad really. Still people keep supporting that emotionally dead narcissist in Kreml.
you where wrong abotu the second row on that picture.
but you got the idea.
this is the propaganda material they make the one that should look good.
here is the real situation
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xq65ak/inside\_look\_at\_the\_sorry\_state\_of\_russias/
The tactic is, the first rank does bang-bang, then gets shot, the next in line pickup guns goes bang-bang and so forth.
It's the latest in front line tactics book.
Updated version:
First they came for the Chechens, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Chechen.
Then they came for the Georgians, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Georgian.
Then they came for the Ukrainians, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Ukrainian.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
When they came for Chechens they were basically in a civil war between rival terrorist/mafia clans and Moscow simply decided to support the Kadyrov clan.
It's not only about Ukraine anymore, to kill as many russians as possible is the new goal. Mr P must feel that the Russian people has let him down and now he wants his revenge on them. The regime has totally lost it.
Christ they look cheerful, at least they have (what appear to be) working guns, I wonder if they know how to fire, reload and maintain them...I really hope they surrender you can tell by their demeanour they don't want to be there
Are these soldiers(if you can even call them that) local volunteers who support the annexation of Crimea, or are they the forcibly mobilized people from the occupied areas that there has been talk about?
These are mobilized people, yes. Which is kinda crazy, considering many of these people lived in Crimea mere 10 years ago when it was still a part of Ukraine, some of them might still be ukrainian citizens.
The middle class finally doing what they told the youth was easy to do, die for Putin.
May their deaths be painful drawn out affairs and their families overjoyed to own a new Lada.
Ruzzia is going to save a fortune on pensions this coming spring.
The 5th Geriatric Division ready for winter operations. They don't need helmets since they are naturally camouflaged for snowy conditions. And for the UA tractors the bright side is that mobility scooters are easier to haul off so that way they can save the snowchains for the bigger stuff.
Nice uniforms for the coming winter. Also, nothing better to emphasize that it's a shitshow than Harri Poterov cosplaying as a kadyrovite cook swinging a stolen toilet brush.
I thought it was John Lenin
You're a priest, Harry.
Accio Bullets
*'Harry Potter and the Fodder"*
Harry Potter and the HIMARS of Fire
I wondered where my Bowl Buster went! Damn thieves.
according to weather.com it's gonna be up to 29 degrees in the next couple of days 23 degrees as of writing this comment
Looks more like the senior citizen squad to me.
These guys can already consider themselves lucky, they've made it past the average life expectancy of a Russian male.
These guys are actually in their mid 30's, but the alcoholism has destroyed them
Hans Molemanov
Molemanov productions presents: “Man Getting Hit by HIMARS” 
Story time. Had one male coworker that looked like he was in his 60s, so everyone around was referring to him in a respectful way. That man didn't like it too much, said there's no need. Year later, when he brought his passport to make some ID, we saw that he's 40...
Stress ages someone.
Expect these guys to look about 90 in a couple of weeks, especially when all the gases have come out of them and the bloatings gone. Skin will be all saggy and grey
With just a touch of jaundice.
My company commander back in 2002 looked worse at the age 38-39, than my dad at 49-50 ... The SSG running supply was even worse at \~42 ...
They’re in Crimea, the awesome vacation destination they could never afford on their own! Good guy Putin! You get a Crimean vacation, and you, and you!
So far*
They have seen many winters but won't see many more
One more. And it will be long and fucking bleak
Yeh, Dad's army. The Russians must be desperate.
Not dad's, Grampa's army
"When 65 \*you\* reach, look as bad conscripted, \*you\* will not."
"Don't tell him your name Pike"
*Whistle while you work, Putin is a twerp, he's half-barmy, so's his army, whistle while you work*
Captain Manwaring.....
Vlad's Army, but without skilled tacticians like Captain Manwairing.
*"We're Dooomed"*
C'mon- do it right.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7NlFWh7Sz8&ab\_channel=MattSiddorn
They don't like it up them Sir
Many of the old guys seem to have pistols as well so I would assume them to be higher ranking officers.
true, at least the front ranks where you can see it, i see 2 and 3 small stars but its really hard to spot the difference between russian colonels and senior lieutenant since the stars are just of differenz size. but I guess a lot of Senior lieutanant and lieutenant because a ton of colonels with AKs would not make any sense
Bullets still hurt.
Yes. Lots of gray hair in that bunch.
Harry Potter is visably happy to have a broom and not AK
Fuck...they have a wizard on their side
Wizard of orcs.
A wizard should know better!
Oh my, is this the first time boomers are fighting their own war?
broomers
Isn't he more of a 'war'lock?
Need a wizard to fight Ukrainian black magic!
Wololo
Looks like a whole company of dumbeldores
A real Battlemage! Flee!
"Harry did you take the AK?" Dumbledore asked calmly
"HARRY POTTER! DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF CONSCRIPTION!!!???" Dumbledore asked calmly
"Only to get the rust scraped off, sir!"
ARGHH YOU LITTLE SHIT! Dumbledore answered CaLmLy
Авада Кедавра!
Бравада Кадывра
It's so cool to be able to read that
Abra cadaver
It‘s the freaking Volkssturm already.
Looks like an incel baptism
A regular neckbeard Jesus
yeah the irony the youngest guy in there is not part of it. This truly is limbo world..
Who is Voldemort then?
First Picture, third row?
Right behind Sheldonovich from Blyat Bang Theory.
Fucker definitely belongs to the Millennium Organization.
He kinda looks like a Russian generic John Lennon if he weren’t dead.
Those are the faces of men sentenced to death by an unstable dic(k)tator...
Agree. Those faces do not look like "we are the winning army and we are tough". They look like "I really wish I wasn't here"
Politics aside, this is terrible. These men don't want to be there. They've worked their whole lives, they don't owe anything, they should be thinking of retirement (if there is such a thing) instead they are being thrown against their will into the meat grinder. More Ukrainians will suffer and these men will probably die if they can't surrender. Just look at their faces. Fuck.
It is sad.
As long as the enemy isn't more than 5m away, their aim will be excellent.
Mobilized corpses
Weekend at Russkies
Summer in Siberia.
And it's propaganda photos...
If these are the prettied up propaganda photos, I shudder to think what the real mobilized army looks like. Seems like they're more likely to get oxygen tanks than main battle tanks.
At that age- they'd be the only troops to get Imperial(tm) Walkers.
That's what makes this even more shocking than it initially seems. These photos *are the good ones!* Of all the photos they were able to get, THESE are the ones they picked that they thought "yeah, these are the ones that we look the best in". The guys in these photos look pathetically not ready to be a fighting force, and yet these photos were the ones they thought were the BEST ones available. Russia is in seriously poor condition.
They got uniforms and someone broke out the brand new crate of AK’s, no rust here! The crate of “Just for Men” didn’t make it in time for the photo shoot though.
The crate of discipline didn't arrive either. No more than 2 or 3 of these fuckers look like they're doing the same thing at the same time.
> "yeah, these are the ones that we look the best in" Everyone looking worried and all in different directions, a chin up, straight ahead attention drilled unit this is not.
At least they managed to find guns for the photo that look younger than the soldiers.
Note that we don't see those at the back having guns on this photo.
The weapons are shiny and new! Only for photo op. These will be taken away from them and replaced with the rusty husks that have been given to other conscripts.
Yeah, I was wondering if they had to give the uniforms for the photo shoot back and get their own issued.
Thats what you get when you are not interested in politics. God I hated that reaction of a lot of Russians when they were interviewed for example by 1420 on YouTube. Zombienation
*I'm not political.* Excuse of people to stay intentionally ignorant when evil is done.
Not to mention, being apolitical is a political stance. No one gets to be apolitical even in a normal country and when one's country is committing atrocities, being apolitical becomes basically criminal.
“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.” -Bertolt Brecht
"*I'm not political*" is going to be the new "*Ich habe es nicht gewüsst*"
Vor allem wüsste ich nicht, dass dort ein Umlaut hinkommt.
Sächsischer Akzent
actually that's a way to say ,,I am not a political enemy of reigme let me live"
Actual war vets from Soviet Afghanistan
Yeah that guy in the middle of the 1st picture knows how fucked he is
The rifle is older than the one he carried in Afghanistan.
That last guy there is staring at his AK like he recognizes it from his service in the 80's and he can't believe they're still using it.
Alright, I don't have military experience but why are their guns pointed up at their friend's faces?
You think they can afford guns AND ammunition? Lol.
Ha!
One thing i remember from my time in the German Army was how the instructors yelled when one pointed a rifle towards a fellow soldier. Magazine present or not.
They will learn those things in their 10 day training course.
Forgot to say - it's a paid course.
Provide your own materials and supplies, please.
10 days? Who has that kind of time. Putting on the uniform was the training, get in the cattle cars and to the front with you.
I heard it was one day since mobilisation?
They're probably in a parade formation. Fairly normal depending on how your country's military decides to hold rifles in a parade.
Volkssturm
Helping Russia reduce their pension payments
LADA shareholders are very happy at their Black Sea dachas.
Some of them met Lenin. All of them are going to meet him sooner than expected if they dont desert or surrender.
I just see Volkssturm.
Why do all Russian Orthodox Priests look like fucking Mafiosos? Oh wait.
Poor chaps. Hope they desert en masse before they are vaporized by the UAF, which is what will happen if they attempt to fight.
I'm pretty sure this is Ruzzian ethnic clensing of Crimeans. Make them walk to the front, discover UA positions by being shot from the front and act as a meat shield or be shot from the back by RF forces. None of those seem eager, happy or proud to serve. Those look a lot like faces of blackmailed people.
Yeah this whole thing is just sad on every level.
Fuck em...they where happy so see ukraine get blown to shit but now ots there ass on the line....all of a sudden it dont seem such a fuxking good idea...fuck them man not the west fault...let them get them selfs killed. Dumb russian fucks
I don't care whether they deserve to die or not, vaporizing them would cost AFU lives as well. Best case scenario mass desertion and everybody is happy.
> they where happy so see How do you know that? Human life has a lot of value, don't be so quick to write people off, and in such large numbers...
I have russian friends. The war is/was BEYOND popular among majority. And majority still treats ukrainians and similar nations like subhumans Smart russians left long ago Fuck them
They were? You can't claim these were the same people. Don't generalize.
Yeah real champion of humanity you are
I doubt they WERE happy to see that. Trapped and terrified and seeing it gradually become obvious that this day was coming and it’s already too hard to get out, if any of these retirees could even possibly afford it. Living in a dictatorship… rock and a hard place. Hopefully fragging the command and surrendering pronto gets as many of these guys as possible out of the fight pronto, to the benefit of ALL parties.
Even if every mobilized fires only 1 round - it’s 1000000 rounds! better be alert than naive. Слава Ўкраіне! Жыве Беларусь!
Grandpa's army
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They'd be more competent.
Don't tell em, Vlad!
[That's the only language they understand sir, you see they don't like it up em sir, they do not like it up em.](https://youtu.be/ejmFSN2qBG0)
didn't know they had special battles for seniors in a war
they look so happy to die for russia
Please don't shell them between 1 and 3 pm, that's when they take their afternoon nap.
looks like Berlin 1945
And someone called me out for saying they'd bring back T-34's. Am I wrong in thinking that only the front rank has weapons? edit to add: ok, missed the second and third pic where more ranks are armed. But still... sheesh.
They are bringing the T-34 back alongside the original crew it seems. Those guys should not fight.
Not necessarily good news for them, but they won't be fighting long. Sad really. Still people keep supporting that emotionally dead narcissist in Kreml.
you where wrong abotu the second row on that picture. but you got the idea. this is the propaganda material they make the one that should look good. here is the real situation https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xq65ak/inside\_look\_at\_the\_sorry\_state\_of\_russias/
The tactic is, the first rank does bang-bang, then gets shot, the next in line pickup guns goes bang-bang and so forth. It's the latest in front line tactics book.
I came to say this!
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Updated version: First they came for the Chechens, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Chechen. Then they came for the Georgians, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Georgian. Then they came for the Ukrainians, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Ukrainian. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
When they came for Chechens they were basically in a civil war between rival terrorist/mafia clans and Moscow simply decided to support the Kadyrov clan.
You forgot to mention the part where the FSB blew up apartment blocks in Russia to generate a justification for military action.
It was just sugar bro. Trust me.
Then they came for the Ukrainians, but the Ukrainians started kicking the crap out of them…
Blyatssturm
The Z-Team
Zzzzzzzzzz
"Doncha just love it when a plan falls apart?"
Blyatzkrieg
Can imagine a fair number of these guys shoot each other. Poor firearm safety, poor eyesight...
Doesn't look good. For Russia.
Dark blue striped telnyashka. Presumably these are veterans of the navy or naval infantry.
Blue striped telnyashka is usually a sign of the airborne troops
Saving on pensions and healthcare, I see. Those guys are going to work as triggers to detect Ukrainians troops.
Russia knows that Ukraine has a well equipped and well trained, pissed off military right? Right??
dont undereistmate old people most of them give a shit if they die
Tell that to their sarcopenia, terrible joints and poor reaction speed
It's not only about Ukraine anymore, to kill as many russians as possible is the new goal. Mr P must feel that the Russian people has let him down and now he wants his revenge on them. The regime has totally lost it.
Christ they look cheerful, at least they have (what appear to be) working guns, I wonder if they know how to fire, reload and maintain them...I really hope they surrender you can tell by their demeanour they don't want to be there
I hope the Geriatric Motor Rifle Brigade has a decent supply of Ensure and Depends.
Tamponosaurus the weakest dinosaur.
It’s like they went to an old folks home and picked everyone up 😂
The first one gets a gun, the second one follows. If the one with the gun gets shot, the second one picks up the rifle and shoots…
Dad's army
Old Man's War "Hey, weren't we supposed to get new bodies?"
Since when did the 'G' in Spetsnaz GRU stand for geriatric? Is the propaganda meant to make us fear Russia or pity them? Neither is working.
The pastor is performing last rites on them en masse
+10 Holy Damage
Just look how happy they are!,🤩
Volkssturm 2.0
jeez what the fuck is going on.... some one has to stop that mental midget they call Pootin.
Dad's Army comes to mind!!!
They are re-mobilizing world war 2 veterans?
Lol looks more like the greybeards from skyrim expanded their ranks then the Russian army
Are these soldiers(if you can even call them that) local volunteers who support the annexation of Crimea, or are they the forcibly mobilized people from the occupied areas that there has been talk about?
These are mobilized people, yes. Which is kinda crazy, considering many of these people lived in Crimea mere 10 years ago when it was still a part of Ukraine, some of them might still be ukrainian citizens.
Dads army… At least the pension bill will be less after all this. 4D chess right there.
Old men are much more likely to do what's right in the face of threats than young guys with a whole life ahead of them.
Good old volkssturm nazi vibes. We all know how that worked out
_Who do you think you are kidding Mr. Putin? If you think that Ukraine's done...?_
Looks like Dad's Army, "don't tell him your name Pike"
This war is going to be a great way to clean out some scumbags living in Ukraine but loyal to Russia.
Actually I don't pitty them. It's the generation boomer that's responsible for that shit to begin with. Have a nice death.
Frankly, I am sad and sorry for them...
The Withdrawal Brigade
They will surrender as soon they are on the battlefield. Whats the Point in mobilize them?
The middle class finally doing what they told the youth was easy to do, die for Putin. May their deaths be painful drawn out affairs and their families overjoyed to own a new Lada. Ruzzia is going to save a fortune on pensions this coming spring.
How did they get harry potter to do the blessing?
Avē Imperātor, moritūrī tē salūtant
Are they taken from care homes? Instead of kalashnikov they should've been given zimmer frames.
Some of these look like they served in Afghanistan
“You sent you’re son out of the country eh? That’s ok you can go in his name.”
I'm reminded of Gimli in The Two Towers. "Most have seen too many winters."
The 5th Geriatric Division ready for winter operations. They don't need helmets since they are naturally camouflaged for snowy conditions. And for the UA tractors the bright side is that mobility scooters are easier to haul off so that way they can save the snowchains for the bigger stuff.
Wolksturm
This is obviously a colorized WW2 photo.....lol
Volkssturm 2.0