Originally Posted by plumbum
Originally Posted by Northman
570 new conscripts dropped of, with 3 shovels told to dig trenches.
29 men left alive after first night, while officers fled during shelling.

I put little past Putin or his peers, but there is no way 600 men were equipped with only 3 shovels. Shovels are just not that hard to find, or even make.

That very story is carried in The Guardian today.

Supposedly 129 survived but with many wounded. The piece talks about the shortage of shovels and having to wait to dig their trenches. The Russian conscripts got hammered badly.

I believe there’s similar on BBC.