cannon fodder

These units are often sent in to battle as the “first wave” and a number of Russian deserters have told the BBC that “troublemakers” who object to the war have been used as “cannon fodder”.

However, he says, they should not be presumed to be cannon fodder - adding such a characterisation is “Ukrainian bravado”.

“I’m kind of used to my identity being cannon fodder,” Bennet says in a recent Zoom interview.

The Go8 has called the proposed laws "draconian", while others accused the government of "wilfully weakening" the economy and of using international students as "cannon fodder in a poll-driven battle over migration".

And the Rohingyas fear that is the reason they are being targeted again - to be cannon fodder in a war the junta seems to be losing.