Tiamat
I've seen the future...
It’s notable whenever the Russians describe a battle or defense of an area “difficult” it tends to be faring poorly for them. Interpret that how you will.
This is Twitter, but Make of this what you will.
Looks like a fight is going on between Shoigu and the head of Wagner.
Yeah and even two to three months is not enough to train someone to be an effective soldier capable of operating as a part of a cohesive unit and performing combined arms warfare (and let's not even mention cooperation between different branches of military).
In Finnish military the first two months are just reserved for teaching the very basics of soldiering. After that there are two more training phases. The second one includes training each soldier to their dedicated task (like let's say infantry, combat engineer, artillery operator) and training each unit to work together. The third phase then trains different types of units like artillery, infantry, combat engineers, etc... to work together in combined arms warfare with the other branches of the military culminating in a two-week long ''final war'' - exercise where all the branches and units train in a combined arms warfare simulation exercise where some play the role of aggressor and some the role of defender.
And this takes at minimum half a year for crew, nine months for specialist and more demanding roles like combat medics, etc... and a year for NCOs and officers alike.
Speaking of cohesion…
Russia will not give in to terror. "Undamaged" portions of bridge will be reopened soon apparently.