Russian recruits expected to survive for just ’30 minutes’ on frontline

Russian conscripts can expect to die within half an hour of arriving on the battlefield, according to reports (Picture: Reuters)

Half a million casualties, fuel shortages and key infrastructure destroyed; Putin’s war machine continues to take its toll in Russia.

It has now been more than 50 months since the Russian president launched his ‘special military operation’ – a war which has now outlasted the First World War and dragged on longer than Russia’s conflict against Nazi Germany.

Now, new reports suggest that Russian soldi...