Their actual army is fighting and gets killed by thousands, there is no another ‘actual’ army that waits somewhere in the shadows. Protection is done by other branches of the military and non-military.
Iirc, a bunch of security units like OMON and SOBR got sent to Ukraine at beginning of the invasion and predictably got mauled when they met people who could fight back.
Their actual army is fighting and gets killed by thousands, there is no another ‘actual’ army that waits somewhere in the shadows. Protection is done by other branches of the military and non-military.
Iirc, a bunch of security units like OMON and SOBR got sent to Ukraine at beginning of the invasion and predictably got mauled when they met people who could fight back.