Captured Russian soldiers tell of low morale, disarray and horrors of trench warfare | CNN

LTC Eugene Chu
"For three days, shells and mortars were “flying and whistling overhead, exploding around us,” Anton, a Russian soldier positioned south of Bakhmut, tells CNN. “We were jumping like rabbits under mortar rounds and bombs.”

When it got quieter, he and fellow soldier Slava fell asleep. The sound of a roaring engine and shooting soon woke them up, and shelling eventually blew out the logs covering the foxhole they were hiding in.

“There was a crater right at the entrance. And then it went silent. It was dead silent. And my friend told me, let’s run,” recalls Slava, now in the custody of Ukrainian soldiers."...

I'm not surprised at all. The majority of videos I've seen coming from the conflict shows Russian POWs looking under fed, pale, low morale, and more then willing to talk to their comrades about surrendering.

Is anyone shocked that Russian soldiers are viewed as expendable? They are from a country that threw millions of men at the Germans and they're still uprooting their bones all over their battlefields.