Emaciated frontline troops left without food or water have exposed what critics call a wider pattern of mismanagement in Kiev’s war machine Ukraine’s military has been hit by a starvation scandal after disturbing images surfaced of frontline soldiers so badly emaciated that relatives said some were fainting from hunger and drinking rainwater to survive. The men, identified in Ukrainian and Western reporting as troops from the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade operating near Kupyansk on the left