Ryssland mobiliserar 300 000 man, kan mobilisera upp till 25 miljoner om det behövs.

“'You’re all just cannon fodder. You’re the third group of people to form this battalion. Do you know where the first two groups died? And you’ll die here.'
Then he told my commander, 'Send in the meat.' [Us.]"
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/09/28/honestly-they-re-all-going-to-die-there

A thread on morale in the Russian forces, and the impact on the forces of a culture of dedovshchina, which is an extreme form of hazing that new conscripts in the Russian forces are subjected to.
Conscripts are raped, beaten, suffer sleep deprivation, are forced to lick floors and toilets, to eat excrement and torture others.

Out of all Russians - living in both rural AND urban areas, including chic Moscow, St. Petersburg etc., 40,9% of families who have 3 or more kids, had no running water in their house in Russia in 2019. This is the official statistics of Russian government.
https://novayagazeta.ru/news/2019/04/02/150519-rosstat-okolo-22-6-naseleniya-rossii-zhivet-bez-dostupa-k-kanalizatsii

… a key source of support for the Russian military was the notion – hammered home daily on state television and held by many in the country – that Russia is engaged in a broader war with Nato and the United States.

Interviews and polls show that some Russians have also accepted the Kremlin’s unfounded claim that Russia is under siege from the west and had no choice but to invade Ukraine.

“My husband is fighting not only against Ukraine but also Nato. We don’t have many allies,” said Lyudmila, whose husband, Sergei, was mobilised this week.

Since the start of the mobilisation, Telegram groups have sprung up in which women share tips on how to stay in touch with their partners or sons. Lyudmila, who runs one of the groups, said: “I am proud of my husband. Russia is pinned against the wall and we have to fight back.”

Some newly mobilised Russian reservists have been ordered to source their own first aid supplies and advised that female sanitary products are a cost-effective solution, according to the latest briefing by the UK Ministry of Defence.
Medical provision for Russian combat troops in Ukraine is likely growing worse, it says, adding that “medical training and first-aid awareness is likely poor”
Some Russia troops have obtained their own modern, western-style combat torniquets but have stowed them on their equipment using cable-ties, rather than with the Velcro provided – probably because such equipment is scarce and liable to be pilfered.

This is almost certain to hamper or render impossible the timely application of torniquet care in the case of catastrophic bleeding on the battlefield.

Russian troops’ lack of confidence in sufficient medical provision is almost certainly contributing to a declining state of morale and a lack of willingness to undertake offensive operations in many units in Ukraine.