TopCat
Putin fanboy
The quite a bit of evidence, I’m not disputing this but would like to read about it if you can point me to what informs your view.I think there is quite a bit of evidence to suggest that corruption within the Russian armed forces is through the roof. From brigades having vastly over inflated numbers so that the CO's can pocket the wages, to troops being sent into Ukraine with rations that had a use by date back in the soviet era (if they were lucky enough to even receive a ration pack).
It's hard to quanitfy the levels of corruption in each country, but I'd be willing to accept that over the last couple of years Ukraine has made some attempts to clean their act up (It will be a pretty big sticking point of them successfully getting into the EU), whilst in Russia it seems like its hard-wired into the state, to the point of it severely impacting on their ability to conduct what should have been a roll-over of Ukraine for the worlds second largest army .