Posted on 03/24/2022 8:36:16 AM PDT by jaydubya2
British volunteers have been blamed for a missile strike that killed 35 people at a Ukrainian training facility because their phone signals gave away the base’s location.
Whoops.
“Between 12 to 14 British phone numbers starting with the +44 national dialling code were visible to surveillance equipment a short time before the Russian missile strike on the Yavoriv training facility in western Ukraine on the 13th of March,” reports Breitbart.
“Mercenaries who were contracted by the Wagner Group, a military company linked to Moscow, may have been operating nearby at the time of the strike, according to reports, and specialists fear they would have been able to pick up, locate, and target a concentrated group of British mobile phone signals and pass the information to Russian forces.”
The story once again highlights the danger of badly trained foreign volunteers traveling to the front lines of a hot war.
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War is not a video-game, especially when you are dealing with Russia.
First, at least 180 were killed, then everybody knew where this base was.
So you admit the Russian government intentionally targeted a Ukrainian military base during an illegal and unjustifiable attack on a sovereign country.
I hope the Ukrainians kill every last Russian soldier in Ukraine. They’re all uncivilized savages.
Nekulturny savages.
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I knew it. Cell phones are the devil.
LOL, dream on,
The Brits were channeling a Monty Python sketch on what not to do.
This story is pretty dumb. The secret location they were keeping troops was a military base that had existed for years and the entire world knew about.
The only question is why weeks into the war Russia has so far failed to do the most basic projects like bombing known military facilities.
Russia obliterated a Ukrainian division with artillery near Crimea in 2015 based off of cell phone ping data.
An article like this just WARMS THE HEART.
Uh, military bases are fair game in a war no matter who is fighting it.
Frankly, I’d rather the Ukrainians be holding military assets on military bases rather than in the hospitals and apartment complexes that they appear to have been using so far.
Not exactly top-notch performance by a military that lots of folks have been comparing to Hitler's Wehrmacht. Doesn't look like the folks in Dunkirk (or even Warsaw ;>) need to worry about Russian tanks rumbling through their streets...
;>)
Isn’t this more than just a little nonsensical to blame it on British cell phones when the base is well known and the missiles are russian?
I would have thought they would have been told to hand over their cell phones upon crossing the border. And have it explained to them why it was necessary. I bet they are doing that now.
Another troop ship got blown to hell, hopefully with all hands.
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“...just a little nonsensical to blame it on British cell phones...”
In 2014, the U.S. European Command worked with the Ukrainian ministry of defense to propose bilateral cooperation and defense reform. Canada and the U.K. later joined in support of the effort. This served as the basis for one of the most profound forms of support to Ukraine—the JMTG-U. Training Ukrainian soldiers began at Yavoriv Training Center—the Ukrainian combat training center—in spring 2015. The training center receives oversight from the highest levels of the U.S. government, with the National Security Council serving as the approving authority for the JMTG-U framework and scope of training.
So they’ve been training there using military teams from the US to include the 7th Army Training to work with U.S. Army units (active and National Guard) among them, and they have been doing this for 8 years and the Russians don’t know about it? Summit News needs to do an anal/cranial desertion for reporting it and the heads of the Ukraine government need to stop lying and pointing fingers that are already busy in other body locations. And people in the US want to play in this game.
wy69
Hopefully, the 12 to 14 British phone numbers have been disconnected permanently.
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