Incidents

Rodents attack trenches: Russian soldiers began to get sick through the invasion of mice and rats on the front line

Pests, in addition to damaging army ammunition and eating soldering, are also carriers of dangerous infections. In the armor and trenches, an abnormally large number of field rodents - rats and mice - appeared on the line of combat collision this year. In some areas of the front among Russian soldiers, outbreaks of morbidity have been recorded because rodents tolerate all kinds of infection. On December 23, British intelligence reported in the next report.

According to the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom, the cause of rodent invasion was a soft autumn and the absence of predators, which usually hunt for mice. "With the onset of cold animals, the animals are likely to seek in vehicles and in defensive positions. Rodents will exert additional pressure on the moral spirit of the fighters on the front line," the intelligence writes.

The fact is that rodents mercilessly destroy edible reserves, gnaw ammunition, wires of various equipment and equipment, bite communication cables. Russian soldiers complain that there are many rodents this year. They live in armor, at night they take up in the sleeping bags, bite limbs. "Here I have bitten fingers. You wake up, and the mouse hangs on your fingers and wants to eat it," one of the occupiers complains.

Russian tankers mentioned the case when the mouse was bitten by one of the wires in the tank, which was why the commander tower stopped returning. However, in addition to the harm to the equipment and personal belongings of servicemen, there was another attack - infection. The British write that the trenches of the invaders of rodents brought characteristic diseases. "According to untested data, cases of diseases that military personnel are associated with the problem of pests," the report said.