You could well be right at that. Certainly not the usual Russian military way of executing their own.
He has always had to have an enemy that the Russian people need to be protected from, or to be seen to be righting historical wrongs against them. Always the Hero / victim, never the instigator.
More incompetence from the 2nd army!
Russia would be foolish to imagine that there are not western trained Ukrainian commandos and technical saboteurs operating in the border provinces.
Maybe they aren't naive about it at all, maybe things are so bad in their security services as a whole now, that they can do little about it.
I would imagine this soldier came across a Ukrainian special forces insertion of some sort and they killed him.
Just one more to add to the 98,000+ Russian boys Putin has sent to their deaths, these 10 months.
A landgrab for sure, agree with you there, but….could all of this been a sign of something more?
This my own gut feeling, based on nothing, but part of me wonders if Putin felt that unless he at least tried for a military take-over of Kyiv, then his days were already kind of numbered. Belarus might only be a few years from thier own version of a Euromaidan, and if that happens, what would that mean for Putin’s Moscow?
My guess is that he wanted a war, first to grab Ukraine proper, and second to give himself the appearance of a military strong-man. Then he’d be safe in post for as long as he liked.
Alas for him….that’s not how it turned out.
Another reminder. If you are incapable of interacting in a civil manner then do not post at all. Otherwise you will face a threadban and further sanction
The substance of the picture is true and that is all that matters.
We all know Saratov now as the base of Russia's long range bombers that was very recently attacked by a Ukrainian drone. Now there's reports that a soldier was killed by strangulation in Saratov. His body has been returned to his relatives.
That's the danger of any peace agreement with Russia. They will just use their time to build up their military to invade again and learning from their mistakes.
Rashists join Ukraine in celebrating Christmas on the 25th December. 200 soldiers have absconded and gone on the p1ss.
General Mark Hertling was saying the other day that 'negotiations' with the Russians on virtually anything are pointless - and he's basing this on personal dealings with them over many years. He says they demand everything, lie through their teeth and then renege on most things even before the ink is even dry on the paper.
Absolute scoundrels, the lot of them.
Its actually RKG- 3 old soviet era tank grenades developed ww2 and after.
That's pretty substantial impacts. Some comments there suggesting it's an RPG warhead mounted on the drones. Definitely more effective than the previous gravity bombs dropped on stationary targets although single use.
No way Zelensky or Ukraine will accept those demands,and Russia is far from a good position to make any demands at the moment.
Big deal. Here's something slightly more important and relevant to your twisted sense of outrage.
And that's just by August, i have seen multiple references to children being killed in Kherson recently, in particular.
The figures for children injured are far higher; but what does injured mean? Well I thought it was just any category of injury, but I read an interview with that woman medic from Mariupol who was captured and tortured by the Orcs and then swapped for Putin's buddy. She talked about the trauma of working on children in the 'wounded' category, and intimated it usually meant limbs had to be amputated.
So personally, I couldn't care less whether some Ukrainian has used a photo inappropriately, the underlying issue is real and far, far worse than anything she was referencing.
Russia wants to keep the 4 illegally occupied area's as part of any future peace talks with Ukraine,
As we all knew this was nothing but a chap landgrab by putin
Maybe you could ask Putin for a few pictures of the kids he kidnapped,what do you reckon?
New Ukr kamikaze drone doing significant damage (warning on the video in the Tweet)
Do you support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
Pull the other one.
When a poster expends more outrage on the photo used than the actual fact of Russian attacks on children...
I think the moral bankruptcy of your position is plain for all to see.
This is just faux outrage in the service of a greater lie, to obscure the real truth of how Russia is conducting this war.
Hmmm.
It's a war, there's propaganda. Of which, Russia produces a vast amount daily, and they are the invaders, the instigators of the war itself.
Yet you zone in on this one tweet by a Ukrainian (which could have been a genuine mistake).
Some individuals don't like the fact the Putin is widely reviled for his actions and the Ukrainians are widely respected, that people see Putin as generally "bad" and Ukraine as generally "good". It triggers them. So they post stuff like this but don't think people will see through it.
@greenspurs With all due respect, I think you're the one who is being unreasonable, as you seem to be suggesting that that thing was done to be devious and conniving, when surely you see that it's a case of a fiction revealing a greater truth. Are you annoyed by say NSPCC adverts, which feature children acting, rather than children who have been neglected and abused ?
And to be honest with you, your point, coupled with the your signiture text about hate speech suggests you're a person who's looking for attention...
If you can see that its about a Ukrainian basically lying that the boy was injured in a russian bombing - when its a total lie/mistake , whatever.
Its still a lie put out by a lawyer .
That was my point. Not bad Ukraine/good Ukraine - Bad Russia /Good russia .... I never mentioned that. It was about her using a fake photo .
Fairly simple...
But some still feel the need to attack the poster ... nice 🙄
Russia has been trying to demilitarise Ukraine for nearly a year now. 🤣
Has there been much 'fake news' at all from the Ukrainian side? They are usually very cautious about what they publish and what they say. Also, why would they need to invent anything when they are being bombarded daily by the neighbouring fascist state? There's hardly the remotest need for any false flag events, not after 10 months of war and invasion.
Still don't know what point greenspurs was trying to make. Was it supposed to be some sort of a gotcha moment? Evidence of endemic Ukrainian falsehoods and/or russian innocence? Seems like a waste of bandwidth to me
Yes, there is propaganda in war. Many people believe anything posted on Twitter too, but should they?
And now putinbots are telling the world some of the Ukrainian propaganda isn't true, while the regime they support murders children every day. Of course they don't talk about the latter.
Those on russian telegram will be doing the same regardless, if all news posted was real (and it's not, accidental mistakes will happen, deliberate "mistakes" will happen) they would still be doing the same trying to discredit it.
"Both sides"'ing these arguments is being a bit of a sh*t, those who tune out because of it are dumbasses who can't think critically themselves.
Sure. Why not?
If you go onto google images there are countless photos of real Ukrainian children impacted by the 10 month war. Why would she go to the effort of lifting a photo from something unrelated when it's literally quicker to get one from the vast number of real photos online? Exactly, it doesn't make sense. The most likely explanation is that someone sent this to her, she didn't fact-check it, and posted it on social media.
A 17 year old schoolgirl was fined 30 thousand rubles by a court yesterday in Russia for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.
She used the <...> which is illegal to use against the Russian Forces on posters she stuck up.
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