Russians have contempt for foreign soldiers and mercenaries and just throw them into the frontline, London Evening Standard Defense Correspondent Robert Fox says.
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00:00But just sticking with North Korea for a little bit longer, I just want to ask you why it is,
00:04you think, that some military analysts are saying that Russia is treating these
00:08North Korean soldiers like cannon fodder. What's the reason for that line of thinking?
00:14I think it's quite irrational. I think there's absolutely no doubt about it in the way that the
00:18Russians have contempt for foreign soldiers and foreign mercenaries, though being of a very mixed
00:24nature themselves. The home-grown, home-generated army, with its Chechens, with its Asian forces,
00:33and so on. And I think that they've just thrown them into the front line
00:40faux-demure, because they didn't want to do anything else. Because the problem with Russia,
00:46Russia seems to be relying on numbers. But this is the paradox. Putin will not rely on the number of
00:52a mass mobilization.