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@UrbanMysticDee  
A Lot of the left got really mad at this.

Russians take April Fools pranks too far
 

 
A country that totally isn’t at war and which’s economy is based entirely around producing gas and oil is now rationing fuel
 

 
Why are they not proud of their president?

@Anonymous #B82E  
I can believe it. I mean, they have to export it to get hard currency and I imagine there is encomic panic, though that may subside

According to the NY Times the siege of Kyiv has ended. Russia has pulled out of the north and is redeploying all their forces in the south.

@UrbanMysticDee  
Russia has said they were decreasing operations there Considering Russia’s bullish attitude going in, I absolutely believe they got a bit of a bloody nose. Too much footage of more advanced Russian vehicles that aren’t Ukrainian service (like certain brand new SAM systems, etc) for them to have had it easy or this Though I am skeptical of some Western narratives. In particular, I don’t buy Russian logistics being a complete mess but rather a lack of mass; not enough forces pledged to too many fronts. Russian army has always been a little clumsy and operationally stupid but also has a higher tolerance for conditions that a Western army would call a unacceptable failure and they can just continue limping along.

Russian soldiers tied up and straight up executed civilians, according to images coming out of liberated cities.
 
Still living in the 1940s, eh Russia?

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FIRE HEATS THE BRICKS - THE RUSSIAN SCUM SHALL BE BURNED IN THE STOVE.

@Anonymous #A374  
dude you dont look any better than the ru military right now

@TheBridge  
Not only were they spread too thin I the assertion that they were sending poorly trained conscripts to fight is also true. They seem sloppy and unmotivated.

@UrbanMysticDee  
they also discovered soldiers with field bandages dating all the way back to the cold war

@TeamBlueplant  
There are WW2 surplus weapons being used in the war

@UrbanMysticDee  

 

@Dex Stewart  
Soldiers fighting for a paycheck are not going to give their all compared to soldiers fighting for their home, and weekend warriors are going to put even less effort into fighting than career soldiers.

@UrbanMysticDee  
Yup. I don’t know why Russia didn’t expect that.

@UrbanMysticDee
 
sure, mosins and stens can be found in active use even today
 
but field bandages are a different matter

From twitter
 
 

 

@UrbanMysticDee  
The official death toll was only accounted months after the events, impossible to account for early on. It will be months until the official death toll for the war in Ukraine can be begun to be composed, as it’s still an active war zone and tens of thousands are displaced or missing; all we see now are records of recovered corpses.

@TeamBlueplant  
If they haven’t been keeping those things in a sterile environment (it’s the Russian military; they haven’t) then they’re going to be filthy with mold & bacteria. Not to mention they’ve probably physically degraded to the point of uselessness. The wounded might be better off tearing strips from their own uniforms.

@Anonymous #E22F  
My goodness. Though I keep in mind the fog of war and fake propaganda from both ends of this, Some of this imagery is rather harrowing, to say the least. Though I am not sure I can reach for terms like genocide, it certainly seems like some bad stuff went down. This shouldn’t be surprising on some scale. I mean, if Russia openly on their own state media was talking about volunteers from Syria than no doubt they were having problems and probably throwing various auxiliaries for cannon fonder. I am surprised to see evidence of lots of purposeful civilian deaths around Kiev/Kyiv as that place I expected the Russians to be more careful and disciplined–they had been. They weren’t bombing the city like Kharkiv or outright leveling it like Mariupol. My thoughts were that there would be relatively few intentional killing of civilians in most areas outside of the Donbass, where Russia had send in the Chechens and the Ukrainians have the majority of their further right and less disciplined irregulars. These rows of bodies on the streets, people tied up apparently shot dead, and possible war rapes. Make me really worried about what some of the other fronts in this war most be like…
 
@UrbanMysticDee  
Agreed.
 
 
@UrbanMysticDee  
Agreed x10. World War III is not worth whatever imagery we are being assailed with on social media even if it is true, or partly true.
 
 
@Dex Stewart  
I think the Russians didn’t expect the fight they got. I am uncertain on them thinking they would just win without a fight but I can totally believe the Russians didn’t expect to fight a fully mobilized adversary. If you look at Ukraine’s past performance large parts of their army were totally inept, gave up, and often had a lot of sympathizers within their ranks (if I recall, a good chuck of Ukraine’s Marines just outright defected to Russia in 2014). Even if the Ukrainians had clearly improved, I think the Russians were still counting on large chunks of the Ukrainian Army to give up or become paralyzed and disorganized when command and control was knocked out, which never happened.

Azov bombed the theater.  
If you can believe that Putin is slaughtering his own people for no reason just like Assad gassed his own people for no reason then I should be allowed to believe that Putin rides bears as a hobby.

@IvanSatoru  
You might find that Putin is killing Ukrainians, which contrary to your nazionalist beliefs are their own people and not property of Russia or Putin.
 
And speaking of Russians massacring civilians in theatres, it’s not like there isn’t ample history of considering civilian lives expendable over losing face.
 
Next up in Russian Zombie news, Azov legion somehow teleported themselves from Mariupol (where they’re busy bombing their own people) to set up mass graves and kill hundreds of civilians in the outskirts of Kyiv, all in under 24 hours. You’d think with how talented they were at appearing at every convenient location and killing hundreds at a time the war would already be over!

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