Watch: Alleged Ukrainian Soldier Reviews Russian Military Rations, Finds Multiple Sugar Packets

Purported footage of a Ukrainian soldier finding several packets of sugar while inspecting Russian rations has appeared online.

The video was posted on the Ukraine subsection of Reddit with the caption: "Ukrainian soldier reviews Russian military rations."

It showed the alleged Ukrainian soldier pulling out six packets of sugar along with a chocolate bar and cleaning rag from what he claimed was a Russian ration kit.

"More sugar. Somebody will have diabetes mellitus. More sugar," the Ukrainian soldier was quoted as saying.

"Why do we need Snickers? We have sugar. Soviet Russian sugar," he remarked.

Other items were also present on the table the soldier used in the video, but it was unclear if they were part of the alleged Russian rations.

It was also unclear if there were more items inside the Russian kit.

Later in the video, the Ukrainian soldier said that Russian "babushkas" — a term for old women or grandmothers in Russia and Poland — should "assault military offices" and not supermarkets should they run out of sugar as it can be found in the MREs (meal, ready-to-eat) of Russian soldiers.

Products such as sugar have seen an increase in price and demand in Russia after the country was hit with international sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine, which started on Feb. 24.

Many Reddit users found the video humorous, while others attempted to lay out the implications if the footage was real.

"We should ask ourselves why a soldier would stash that much sugar and how do their rations look like. If the rations contain a lot of canned food, the cans weigh quite a lot, and remember, you carry that s--t on your back. So you want to get the max amount of calories while carrying the least amount of food. You need sugar and salt not to dehydrate yourself," one commenter wrote.

Another claimed that Russian rations do not meet the nutritional needs of soldiers for more than a couple of days and that the country sends mobile field kitchens with its troops to feed them.

"But if they start breaking down or are being hit by raids, the Russian troops can't sustain themselves on their own," a Reddit user said.

Among the types of food rations given to troops of the Russian Armed Forces were different versions of 24-hour kits called Individualnovo Ratsiona Pitanee (IRP) or individual ration packets.

These IRPs, which contained entrees, sugar and salt, among other things, provided upwards of 4,000 calories per ration.

The Ukrainian military previously claimed that the rations given to Russian soldiers in the ongoing conflict between the two countries were expired.

Russia has requested MREs from China, CNN reported, citing unnamed sources.