Re:Russian airlines ordered to stop selling tickets to Russi...
by sam_lowry_ on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @03:23PM
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> combat experience
The only real war Russian army fougt ended 22 years ago, and it was a civil war against poorly equipped guerilla.
You have to roll back 20 more years to find a full-fleged invasion of a neighbouring country by the Soviet Union.
Just as a caveat, note that the provisions of the current partial mobilization explicitly exclude students and conscripts and is for 300K “reservists who have previously served in the Russian army and have combat experience or specialised military skills”. So, I don’t think the mental image of fresh recruits who have no idea what they are doing is necessarily accurate.