15,000 dead after longest Russian drill weekend ever

Thought it was only one weekend a month.

Mar 30, 2022

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By Cat Astronaut

As Russia’s annual readiness exercise along its border with Ukraine enters its sixth week, reports indicate that as many as 15,000 Russian troops have been killed in the country’s longest and deadliest drill weekend on record.

“Worst drill weekend ever,” said Russian army reservist Sgt. Evgeniy Volotov. “I have no idea where we even are, …

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