BBC BS: Russian Reservists Fighting With Shovels

Firsty, the shovel has been part of Russian reservist military kit for decades, and it said "could" be fought with firearms and shovels.

The reality is that frontline Russian troops are running out of ammo. I'm sorry if you have a problem with this.

Sadly the Ukrainians are being slaughtered by Russian drone directed artillery fire. It is devastating and the Ukrainian forces have no where to hide. Latest estimates have the Ukrainian loses at over 600,000 dead, injured, missing, captured. It is brutal with Ukraine losing 500 to 600 troops a day. That isn't a war. That is a slaughterhouse. The war has to stop and stop today. US and Europe leave immediately and let Ukraine and Russia negotiate a peace treaty. Should the US and Europe continue to engage in war Ukraine will cease to exist as a country.

Well, I have seen documentaries about the russian army, and they are taught to use their personal shovel as a "last resort" hand-to-hand weapon, but I'm sure that this is an exaggeration that they are being sent into combat like that. If they aren't issued guns, they are most likely rear echelon troops.

how do you get close enough to engage in "hand to hand combat with a shovel"? Don't you simply get shot as you're approaching? Wouldn't you just raise your hands and surrender on the spot if you were "armed" with gardening implements?

Dont all combat soldiers carry a shovel? 😑

I wonder how many people believed that one ? What about the latest one, Putin kidnapping children from the Donbass, when in fact he evacuated them from a war zone to stop them from being killed, I wonder how many actually believed that one too ?

Well they used pitchforks (against tanks) in WWII

In the Battle of Stalingrad the Soviet Forces used sharpened entrenching tool aka shovels for close combat fighting in the wreckage of the city. By all accounts the Germans were terrified by them. It would not surprise me if the Russians were to do the same in the present conflict☹️

True

The shovels are stamped U.S.

Collective madness

And they destroyed AZOV with them