“Do you know how to use puttees?” Specifics of “national” mobilization

Has everyone already heard the joke by Valery Zaluzhny, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine – “We’ve done away with the Russian professional army, it’s time to do away with their amateur army”? Watching the footage of Russian “mobilliziaki” (contemptuous and ironic of mobilized soldiers), Ukrainians assume that the Russian command expects the Armed Forces of Ukraine to die of laughter.
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