Baladi News – (Shahhoud Jaddou’)
Assad’s regime allied media pages revealed the bad practices of the Russian officers in charge of leading the Fifth Corps against Assad’s regime volunteers and officers at the corps.
One of the corps officers made a plea to the regime’s head, Bashar al-Assad, claiming that the corps is the worst combat formation in Syria.
The officers highlighted the Russian officers’ bad treatment and unjustifiable humiliation of Assad’s soldiers and officers.
“There is no ammunition, except machine guns, and when soldiers discover the truth about the corps, they escape immediately,” said the speaker, adding “they brought us to death.”
The speaker wondered about the purpose of establishing such an odd corps that attrits the officers and soldiers of the army on the cheap.
The post received a lot of comments by those affiliated with the corps. They said that what the officer mentioned is just the tip of the iceberg. In addition to the disregard of soldiers’ lives, bad services, daily humiliation, and not taking care of the wounded, the sadist Russian officers treat the volunteers as cheap mercenaries. One of the commenters, who speaks Russian, said that a part of a conversation between two Russian officers was, “these mercenaries are the cheapest on earth.”
It is noteworthy that Russia sponsored the establishment of the Fifth Corps and dedicated USD 200-300 as a monthly salary for each volunteer. When the corps entered battles on the ground, it sustained heavy losses in Palmyra and Hama, where nearly 1000 soldiers were killed and dozens of vehicles were destroyed.