Russia's Potemkin Army?

StrategyPage posits that Russian troop numbers have been inflated, to both cover up corruption and to please Putin. They're also stating that naval officers and sailors have been sent to the front with no significant training (where they die like flies).

I'd be happy with a little indications as to sources.

Anyway, it's not like sending sailors and naval officers into a ground war hasn't been done, here.