The Russian Duma proposed to create punishment battalions and recalled Lenin

Lieutenant-General Viktor Sobolev, a deputy of the Russian State Duma, proposed to return penalty battalions to the troops during a meeting of the Defence Committee. The corresponding video was published by the Russian media.

The Russian State Duma passed a law on "disciplinary punishment" of military commanders by commanders without trial.

In addition to this law, it is necessary to go further. Create and penalty companies, as it was in the Great Patriotic War, and penalty battalions for those who seriously violate military discipline, - said the deputy.

The law adopted in the Russian Federation allows commanders to punish soldiers for using the phone or communicating with journalists.

There can be no victory without strict military discipline. Vladimir Lenin said about it: whoever does not support any discipline and order in the Red Army, is a traitor and a traitor. And he should be exterminated mercilessly. Tough, but the war was going on, and now the war is going on," said MP Sobolev

He added that those who show cowardice should be sent to the penal battalions.

Earlier, Socialportal reported that the Moscow authorities had offered to pay a huge bonus to recruits willing to join the war in Ukraine, the latest sign of growing pressure to find sufficient replacements for those killed and wounded on the battlefield.