Russian forces in Ukraine are reportedly dying of hypothermia because the gear and clothing they are outfitted with is insufficient for the cooling weather in Ukraine.
Fox News correspondent Jeff Paul gives the latest update on how civilians in Ukraine are coping with winter amid war on ‘Special Report.’, with reports surfacing that inadequate gear and clothing has led some troops to die from hypothermia.
"For the Russian troops, there is now quite significant evidence of ill-equipped, particularly recruits getting...even in the training camps, dying of hypothermia," security expert Robert Fox said during an interview over the weekend, according to The UK's Daily Express newspaper."That is really quite something. Inadequate sleeping bags, inadequate clothing and suffering from the cold. They find it difficult fighting in the cold but the fighting is going on.
"Russian soldiers dying from hyperthermia in winter is nothing new," Koffler said."Unlike the Soviet Army uniforms that were designed for severe Russian winters, modern Russian military uniform is not optimized for freezing temperatures." The winter conditions could also be hindering Russia's ability to use drones the country's military recently purchasedwith The Express reporting Monday that Russia has stopped deploying the Iranian-built Shahed-136 drone in Ukraine because the parts are inadequate to function in the winter temperatures.
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