TBILISI, December 27 (AVN) - The quality of reinforcements that have arrived in he Russian troops group in the Trans-Caucasus in the past four months declined almost three times in comparison with those that arrived in spring this year, Lieutenant-Colonel Vladimir Kuparadze, senior officer of the group's educational work department, said on Wednesday.
The share of drug users among the recruits increased more than two times, the number of those earlier detained by police almost three times, and the number of those with criminal record over three times, Kuparadze told the Military News Agency. Besides, twice more recruits have bad health and need hospitalisation.
The number of mentally unstable recruits is especially high among the reinforcements from the Bashkortostan autonomous republic, Rostov region and Volgograd region.