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Report: Russian troops 'defy orders, self-sabotage and shoot own planes down'
LBC ^ | March 31 | By Will Taylor

Posted on 03/30/2022 11:36:55 PM PDT by RandFan

Russian soldiers in Ukraine are refusing to follow orders, sabotaging their equipment and accidentally shooting down their own aircraft, one of Britain's top spies will claim.

The shocking revelations paint a picture of a shambolic invasion which has seen Vladimir Putin's forces get bogged down by staunch resistance.

Sir Jeremy Fleming, the head of the signals intelligence agency GCHQ, said Putin has "massively misjudged" the situation in Ukraine and his cyber warriors could now look to attack countries who oppose Russia.

In a rare address, taking place in Australia, Sir Jeremy said: "We've seen Russian soldiers - short of weapons and morale - refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their own equipment and even accidentally shooting down their own aircraft.

"And even though we believe Putin's advisers are afraid to tell him the truth, what's going on and the extent of these misjudgements must be crystal clear to the regime.

(Excerpt) Read more at lbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: chechens; chechnya; fakenews; falseflag; goodriddance; jeremyfleming; mi6agitprop; propaganda; putinsbuttboys; putinworshippers; russia; russianaggression; shambolic; shambolicinvasion; strategicfailure; tacticalfailure; theukisajoke; ukraine; willtaylor; zottherussiantrolls
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1 posted on 03/30/2022 11:36:55 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

The Germans are eating their dead!


2 posted on 03/30/2022 11:55:39 PM PDT by NorseViking
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To: RandFan
Sir Jeremy Fleming

Ian’s nephew?

3 posted on 03/31/2022 12:01:08 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: RandFan

Was that before or after Ukrainian Troops Fired a Tochka-U Missile on Lugansk - after the peace negotiations?


4 posted on 03/31/2022 12:17:52 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: RandFan

Wasn’t Christopher Steele another “top British spy?” 🤣


5 posted on 03/31/2022 12:40:09 AM PDT by Prince of Space ( Let’s go, Brandon! )
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To: Lockbox

Ian wrote better fiction.


6 posted on 03/31/2022 12:52:42 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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Russian military never breaks...unless used.

Russian military is a model for failure.


7 posted on 03/31/2022 1:08:46 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (Defeating China is impossible without understanding that Russia is our enemy)
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To: RandFan

Wtf. Not sure if I can believe any of this. It all sounds like war propaganda. When the war is over, we will know more what happened.


8 posted on 03/31/2022 1:20:57 AM PDT by xxqqzz
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Everything is going as planned, comrades.

This is just a military training exercise.

All is well.


9 posted on 03/31/2022 1:28:08 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (Defeating China is impossible without understanding that Russia is our enemy)
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To: RandFan

Don’t believe it.


10 posted on 03/31/2022 1:36:31 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Prince of Space

I doubt it. But from 1956 to 1965, the head of MI5 was a Russian spy.


11 posted on 03/31/2022 1:39:40 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: RandFan

Sounds like a script for a poorly dubbed combat satire movie.


12 posted on 03/31/2022 2:04:41 AM PDT by lee martell
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Western war propaganda has been childishly over the top.


13 posted on 03/31/2022 2:39:20 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: RandFan

LOL! Does anybody actually believe any of this crap?


14 posted on 03/31/2022 2:56:53 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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Well it does seem something is going on seeing the RF had not encircled key cities and is giving up various towns in some areas.

So I would not be LOL as you are.


15 posted on 03/31/2022 2:59:25 AM PDT by hawkaw
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To: RandFan

This could be true, or it could all be BS propaganda.

The only thing I can see for certain is that in 5 weeks a country the size of Russia has still not managed to completely overrun a country the size of Ukraine. And Russia has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world!

Something ain’t right about that.


16 posted on 03/31/2022 3:17:29 AM PDT by servo1969
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I don’t believe Putin was ever trying to take all of Ukraine or had any plan to do so. IMO, the drive on Kiev was not a feint but it was designed to suck in all of Ukraine’s reserves so that the bulk of their professional army which is massed along the Donbas and which was set to launch an attack on Luhansk and Donetsk in a couple months could not be reinforced. That army is in the process of being cut off by the Russians. If it is destroyed, the entire eastern half of Ukraine will be wide open and Putin may demand a lot more than he would demand if they cut a deal now.


17 posted on 03/31/2022 3:25:29 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: RandFan
one of Britain's top spies will claim.

We know a little about Britain's top spies don't we.

18 posted on 03/31/2022 3:29:11 AM PDT by McGruff (Biden - There's going to be a new world order out there and we've got to lead it)
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To: nickcarraway

Along that time England had a multitude of Soviet spies in the Intelligence services.
In addition to Director Hollis there was the Cambridge Five; Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, Donald Maclean and John Cairncross.


19 posted on 03/31/2022 3:30:11 AM PDT by oldvirginian (When I was a kid I wanted to be older…this is not what I expected)
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To: RandFan

I have been seeing the same thing, now seeing Russian solders switching side and defending Ukraine.


20 posted on 03/31/2022 3:59:11 AM PDT by dila813
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