the Kremlin can sign its own verdict by creating “national battalions” for the war in Ukraine/”Novinarnya”
The preparation of “meat” for the war continues
In Bashkiria, Tatarstan , Yakutia, the Urals, the North Caucasus and a number of other regions, “volunteer battalions” (450-500 people on average) are being formed and trained for further departure to “fight the Nazis” in Ukraine.
The most interesting thing is that they plan to use them exclusively as assault infantry. That is, it is a priori assumed that the losses among these “volunteers” will be significant.
All these “passionaries” are being intensively pulled and are already beginning to be thrown into the combat zone. Personally, I don't even have a shadow of a doubt that the Kremlin is trying to kill two birds with one stone in this way. And to close the “holes” with the recruitment at the front (it will obviously not hurt to get 7-8 armored personnel carriers of motivated infantry), and at the same time get rid of “too restless activists” from the “national regions”, which in the future could become the core or catalyst of armed resistance to the Kremlin.
Unenviable prospects
At first glance, such a decision by the Kremlin seems far-sighted, but only at first glance. After all, after getting acquainted with the Ukrainian artillery and infantry as advanced assault groups of these “national volunteers”, the ardor and motivation to “look for the Nazis” in Ukraine will clearly decrease. On the other hand, the desire to return home will obviously increase, preferably safe and sound.
And in such a situation, the problem of “refuseniks”, for example, from a battalion staffed by some Tambov or Saratov “vans”, will seem clearly insignificant compared to the problems of battalions that refuse to go into battle and obey orders, staffed mainly by Tuvans, Adyghes or Tatars. Dagestanis.
For the Russian military command, given its attitude to the use of “human resources”, all this may finally end rather badly.
