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cannon fodder
noun
soldiers, especially infantrymen, who run the greatest risk of being wounded or killed in warfare.
cannon fodder
noun
men regarded as expendable because they are part of a huge army
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of cannon fodder1
Example Sentences
To this day, an official cult of Stalin endures, deployed today to motivate Russians to serve as cannon fodder in Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine war.
The Storm-V units have been used by Russia as cannon fodder, sent to stage assaults on the worst parts of the frontline.
Then, just like the Confederate slave conscripts, just like the Russian cannon fodder in Bakhmut, they’ll be discarded — forgotten, broken and left to rot in the very ruins they helped create.
The bad guys are cannon fodder, though I did like the way one mobster sadly sighs at a grenade before he explodes.
The illegal invasion has led to an estimated 100,000 Ukranian deaths and even more Russian deaths, as Putin treats his soldiers like cannon fodder.
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