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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Seems pretty chaotic, like they don't know what the heck is going on still.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago

Their system of misinformation has consequences

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

That's what happens when the top brass steals all the funding earmarked for communication.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Neither do the Russians.. LoL.. but in their defence they also don't know what they themselves are doing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Not only that, the Russians don't either.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

If they don't know what they're doing, their enemies will be equally confused as they are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

as if they do on every other day

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The state of "everything outside the wire is the enemy" is a lot easier than maneuver warfare.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Lmao imagine having blue/blue issues on literally your own territory

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

they already had blue on blue ambush. some telegram channel listed equipment captured by ukrainians, but that equipment that was ambushed was not, in fact, captured

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So telegram trolling caused Russians to kill each other? That's next level...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

we don't know if it was intentional, and with how reliable is the only source of information (ukrainians maintain very tight opsec) that is russian telegram channels, it might be that it perhaps didn't happen at all. at any rate they may be trying to do it again because i've seen another, shorter list after that incident

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

on first or maybe second day, when russians were suddenly cut off from all their wireless communications due to jamming, some of fleeing russians were targeted by artillery because spotters confused them for advancing ukrainians

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Lmao imagine having blue/blue issues on literally your own territory

I'd guess that it's probably easier there, if anything. Like, hopefully if you're invading another country, whoever is commanding the thing has some kind of unified command and has got a reasonable handle on your forces. I don't expect that random Russian forces are doing a lot of crossing the border on their own initiative.

But if your own country is invaded, then the area is going to be more-accessible to your own people. You've got all kinds of people running around, including potentially people who are just in the picture because they were just in the area. Various types of militia. Maybe local law enforcement. I'd bet that the Kremlin is probably under more political pressure to halt advances in Russia than Ukraine, so throwing even not-terribly-well-coordinated soldiers in the path of an advance. You've probably got some local forces in the path of the thing who are making calls that may-or-may-not be terribly well-coordinated. Russia has internal military stuff like Rosgvardia.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

The fire was directed exclusively at peaceful houses

I'm glad the violent (Russian) occupying force is being dealt with by the Russians!