what they re doing, what their capabilities are at this point. looks to me like they ve been very effective, putin s forces in pulling them apart, and there are allegedly 6 to 9,000, a fraction of their former number. they lost all of their heavy fighting equipment, tanks, armored personnel carriers, antiaircraft missiles. it s clear putin successfully pulled them out of combat and replaced them with regular russian units. and just to reiterate what staff twitty just said, we have been fascinated with the movie the dirty dozen and the notion that hardened criminals are great soldiers. nothing could be farther than the truth. what we want are 20-year-old high school graduates, nice boys, used to playing organized sports, boys and girls, excuse me, young, disciplined