RUSSIAN reservists in Ukraine are being ordered to fight hand-to-hand using shovels due to a shortage of ammunition.
An intelligence update from the Ministry of Defence revealed last month reservists were ordered to assault a Ukrainian position "armed with only firearms and shovels".
It said "the lethality of the standard-issue MPL-50" was "particularly mythologised in Russia" - and some soldiers are being sent to die with just the tool as an offensive weapon.
It did not detail where such battles were specifically taking place.
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