• @tal
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    11 months ago

    This is from a year back:

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/22/europe/russians-crowdfund-soldiers-ukraine-cmd-intl/index.html

    Russians buy boots and body armor for the troops, as the Kremlin tries to fix the campaign’s problems

    One Telegram channel detailed last month how a soldier with the call-sign Kaluga in the DPR’s 6th Motorized Rifles had appealed for help for his company of 74 men.

    “When we were already collecting orders and preparing for departure, people came to our warehouse in a row, carrying boxes and packages with the words: ‘This is for Kaluga from the 6th motorized rifle!’ Medicines, clothes, boots and even two wheelchairs, which the guys took to the local hospital.”

    You’ll notice the boots being mentioned there. If you assume that some soldiers needed (I assume stolen by someone in logistics) boots and didn’t get ones sent them from home…