The stated purpose is to treat a gunshot wound by sticking it inside. Apparently it's what they learnt to do in Chechnya.
Just to steel-man the position, I have heard of US soldiers I know who did the same thing in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Of course, the difference there being that the US soldiers who did it were doing it as an entirely homebrew solution, and not on the official orders of the military.
One has to ask where all that money they got from India, China, Iran and other countries has gone to. If they can't even afford to give their soldier the very basics.
I even read that they are now having to pay for these things, including armor out of their own pockets.
Unless the officers or the grandfathers just steal all their stuff and private gear that they've brought along, or even just their money and phones.
In one unit the mobiks didn't allow themselves robbed and just beat up the deds, who barricaded themselves in one building of the base until the military and civilian police rescued them. https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1577571653101535233
I know about that. Elsewhere they're being told to bring their own women pads or to ask their gf to give them some.
The stated purpose is to treat a gunshot wound by sticking it inside. Apparently it's what they learnt to do in Chechnya.
Just to steel-man the position, I have heard of US soldiers I know who did the same thing in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Of course, the difference there being that the US soldiers who did it were doing it as an entirely homebrew solution, and not on the official orders of the military.
One has to ask where all that money they got from India, China, Iran and other countries has gone to. If they can't even afford to give their soldier the very basics.
I even read that they are now having to pay for these things, including armor out of their own pockets.
Unless the officers or the grandfathers just steal all their stuff and private gear that they've brought along, or even just their money and phones.
In one unit the mobiks didn't allow themselves robbed and just beat up the deds, who barricaded themselves in one building of the base until the military and civilian police rescued them. https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1577571653101535233
No wonder their morale is low, and any chance they have, they prefer to surrender.