I've got way too much time right now so I've been following this stuff very closely. Those are just tiny snippets of an incredibly big horrible picture. Horrible for the Russian army because it is a paper tiger. It was a given that base commanders are selling 30% of their supplies on the black market but still filling out the paperwork saying everything was just fine.

And the first guy was a professional soldier. He was all gung ho for a while. Everyone coming now is a conscript.

On the dreaded other hand, he still has nukes.