HIV cases on a massive rise in russian army

[Kurokage]

https://www.dagens.com/war/hiv-cases-on-...-collapses

HIV cases on a massive rise in russian army as medical system collapse.This chilling detail came to light through pro-Kremlin commentator Anastasia Kashevarova, who sounded the alarm over a growing health crisis that could soon spill over into civilian life.
Behind the fog of war in Ukraine, a silent epidemic is spreading through the Russian military. Soldiers suffering from HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis, and even cancer are being grouped into separate units, reportedly marked with armbands indicating their condition.
 According to Kashevarova, the Russian army is copying tactics once used by the Wagner Group, Russia’s infamous mercenary force. Sick soldiers, many of whom falsified medical documents to enlist, are being placed in special units for those deemed “fit for limited duty.”
These troops are assigned mainly to defensive positions, and concerns are rising that the army may be creating breeding grounds for infection on a massive scale.
Russia’s military hospitals are in crisis. Essential medications are running out, sterile syringes are in short supply, and infection control is nearly nonexistent. Soldiers often hide their conditions to secure enlistment bonuses, while diseases spread unchecked through trenches and field hospitals.
Even when diagnoses are made, soldiers are rarely removed from duty, with only the gravely ill given a chance at demobilisation.

Desperation Over Patriotism.
Military doctor Yevgeny Rybakov says today’s Russian army looks very different from a professional fighting force. Many troops are ex-convicts, drug users, or men recruited from impoverished, war-torn areas like Donetsk and Luhansk.
Their enlistment is rarely about patriotism, most are trying to escape debt, jail time, or poverty. Public health in these regions has been broken for years, creating ideal conditions for disease to flourish.
 
Cramped bunkers, poor sanitation, and freezing winters have created what Rybakov calls an “epidemiological time bomb.” Tuberculosis is widespread, while hepatitis and HIV infections spread rapidly due to poor hygiene and reused medical equipment.
Drug use and alcoholism are rampant among soldiers, driven by trauma and lack of mental health support. Frontline conditions, he warns, are ripe for disaster.

The case of platoon commander Alexander Kuznetsov highlights just how far the military will go to keep sick soldiers on duty. Despite suffering from hepatitis C and a fractured eye socket, he was declared fully fit and returned to combat in Luhansk.

This doesn't sound to good does it??

Things must be getting desperate for the Russians on the front lines, and now with the onset of winter things can only get worse. 
 I imagine if this continues for another year (it's already into it's 3rd year), the situation for both armies on the front lines can only get more harsher, but the losses on the Russia side, as Putin continues to throw troops into this meat grinder, are going to have massive effects for Russia future.
With the possibility that Trump has finally realised Putin has been playing him all this time. Will we see him give his full support to the Ukrainian people, to bring this war to an end? He only said to Zelensky yesterday to take back all the land that Russia has stolen from Ukraine.

[FlyersFan]

I read the article.

Considering what a monster Putin is, I'm surprised that the sick soldiers are put in special units for defense positions.   I figured he'd use them as cannon fodder and put them out front as expendable in combat.

[FlyersFan]

With the possibility that Trump has finally realised Putin has been playing him all this time. Will we see him give his full support to the Ukrainian people, to bring this war to an end? 

Putin has been playing Trump for sure.
But if you want the war to come to an end, Europe has to stop buying Russian energy/oil.
It's really on Europe.
And it's not our part of the world.  
It's Europes backyard.
They need to take care of it.

[Kurokage]

Putin has been playing Trump for sure.
But if you want the war to come to an end, Europe has to stop buying Russian energy/oil.
It's really on Europe.
And it's not our part of the world.  
It's Europes backyard.
They need to take care of it.

I do agree, and the EU have been to slow to end it's reliance on Russian gas and oil, but showing a united front to tyrants and allowing Ukraine to buy American weapons to take back it's land, can only help matters.

[FlyersFan]

 allowing Ukraine to buy American weapons 

Ukraine should be able to buy any weapon they want,
except the A and H bombs of course, and use them as
deep into Russia as they deem necessary.

[andy06shake]

https://www.dagens.com/war/hiv-cases-on-...-collapses

This doesn't sound to good does it??

Things must be getting desperate for the Russians on the front lines, and now with the onset of winter things can only get worse. 
 I imagine if this continues for another year (it's already into it's 3rd year), the situation for both armies on the front lines can only get more harsher, but the losses on the Russia side, as Putin continues to throw troops into this meat grinder, are going to have massive effects for Russia future.
With the possibility that Trump has finally realised Putin has been playing him all this time. Will we see him give his full support to the Ukrainian people, to bring this war to an end? He only said to Zelensky yesterday to take back all the land that Russia has stolen from Ukraine.

That's all they bloody need, poor sods get sent to the front lines, get hurt, require medical assistance, and end up with AIDS down to contaminated blood or some other medical snafu???

Hell of a predicament, and then some.

[Kurokage]

That's all they bloody need, poor sods get sent to the front lines, get hurt, require medical assistance, and end up with AIDS down to contaminated blood or some other medical snafu???

Hell of a predicament, and then some.

Yeah, you get forced into conscription, are injured and end up with a horrid disease or infection, but because how few soldiers Putin has on the frontline now, they tell you "Your fine, get back out there!!"

If medical supplies are that low, then the infection rates from using contaminated equipment must be massive. Single use items like syringes must be riddled with infectious diseases. I bet they're all drinking the medical alcohol too!!

[Tecate]

When I was over there in the ‘90s there was no single use medical equipment, we had to bring our own. Everything was tossed in an Autoclave sterilizer, lancets, needles, syringes and surgical instruments. 

That wasn’t the problem, the issue was that the nurses would also use the same Autoclave to cook fish in the clinic… !!

They are a people who make do with what they have. Hard to believe they are/were a superpower….

Anyhoo, as usual, my 2 pesos…


Tecate

[MichSwampbuck]

I bet they vaccinated those troops really well, esp. for any novel virus that might have been developed in a Chinese bio-lab. That should have given them strong immunity to all those nasty pathogens, esp. HIV, just ask Fauci.

[Kurokage]

When I was over there in the ‘90s there was no single use medical equipment, we had to bring our own. Everything was tossed in an Autoclave sterilizer, lancets, needles, syringes and surgical instruments. 

That wasn’t the problem, the issue was that the nurses would also use the same Autoclave to cook fish in the clinic… !!

They are a people who make do with what they have. Hard to believe they are/were a superpower….

Anyhoo, as usual, my 2 pesos…


Tecate

That's a tad shocking, and possibly over cook the fish?!?!

I know they used old 'sister' type desktop autoclaves, as did many old style rural health clinics across the world back in the day, but in these circumstances, I imagine they're lucky if they get a alcohol wipe.