Newly-mobilised Russian conscripts have begged for supplies to keep warm after catching double pneumonia and bronchitis amid freezing conditions.
In a mutinous video, the desperate soldiers complained they were stranded and had no diesel for their military vehicles.
‘Give us some diesel,’ the men beg, reportedly from a training base in Siberia.
The conscripts are due to be sent to the war in Ukraine where Vladimir Putin has been accused of turning 300,000 reservist recruits into cannon fodder.
Russian defence minister Sergi Shoigu announced on Friday that the partial mobilisation of troops to fight in Ukraine was ‘complete’ and that the requisite number of recruits had been reached.