Videos show reluctant conscripts at recruitment offices and staging points hitting the bottle as military commanders try to coral them into order before boarding buses and planes.
Russians drafted into the army and beginning their journey to the frontlines of Ukraine have been filmed drinking and brawling, in scenes that could soon be repeated on the battlefields of Donbas.
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