The Russian army is sending draftees to the front lines in Ukraine with just a day or two of training—or none at all.

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In practice, the mobilization hasn’t been so orderly. Protests, some violent, broke out across Russia as tens of thousands of draft-eligible men fled Russia for neighboring countries. Men who should not be subject to the draft—students, sick older men—are finding themselves under armed guard on buses bound for army bases, where instructors advise them to pack tampons for plugging bullet wounds before shipping them off to the front.

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ISW noted a video from a draftee with the army’s 1st Tank Regiment, complaining he’s receiving no new training before being sent to Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine.