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Russian paratrooper reveals how he had NO idea he was invading Ukraine until the shelling started and tells how his comrades were slaughtered while using rusty machine guns
MAILONLINE ^ | 13 August 2022 | ADAM SOLOMONS

Posted on 08/13/2022 5:40:08 AM PDT by dennisw

Russian paratrooper reveals how he had NO idea he was invading Ukraine until the shelling started and tells how his comrades were slaughtered while using rusty machine guns and 'the tactics of our grandfathers'

Pavel Filatiev, 33, highlights Russian army's shortcomings in explosive new book Paratrooper Pavel was part of invading force, but quit on medical grounds He now opposes war and said: 'We had no moral right to attack another country'

Soldiers under Putin are 'dissatisfied' and under-supplied amid 'terrible war'

Mr Filatiev, 33, dressed in his army uniform, was part of Russia's invading forces on February 24. But now he opposes the 'terrible war' Russia had 'no moral right' to begin

Putin's soldiers had no idea they were invading Ukraine until they took return fire from Kyiv forces, an ex-paratrooper in the Russian army has revealed in an explosive new memoir.

Pavel Filatiev, 33, says his elite unit was moved to the border with Ukraine after he had seen talk of a planned invasion in the world's media, but that they were sent in with no warning that they'd be facing enemy forces.

His memoir also tells how he was given a rusty machine gun and an ill-fitting uniform, and that his comrades were wiped out because they were using 'our grandfathers' tactics'.

He said he woke up to the sound of gunfire in the back of an army truck crossing the border at 2am on February 24, the day the invasion began.

Filatiev asked: 'Are we firing at advancing Ukrainians?

'Where we were going and why wasn't clear. It was clear that a real war had begun. I found out [we had] orders to go to Kherson.'

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adamsolomons; boring; boringpropaganda; russia; thedailysmell; war; zeroukiecasualties
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1 posted on 08/13/2022 5:40:08 AM PDT by dennisw
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As shelling started and Ukrainian soldiers began firing at Russian vehicles, Filatiev said he realised he had invaded the neighbouring country.

He added: ‘It became clear that we had attacked Ukraine.’

In an explosive new book, Filatiev has highlighted appalling shortcomings from ill-fitting uniforms to army medics without syringes or painkillers.


2 posted on 08/13/2022 5:40:28 AM PDT by dennisw
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LOL! you fools will buy anything, it’s hilarious.


3 posted on 08/13/2022 5:43:36 AM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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No one likes Russians. Russians don’t like Russians, when you see how these Russian boys were sent BLIND into Ukraine with non- functioning weapons.

No one who lives in nations that were in the old USSR likes Russians. They know the Russian boot on their necks. Such nations as: — Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia — NONE want the stupid, barbaric Roooskies lording over them again.


4 posted on 08/13/2022 5:46:13 AM PDT by dennisw
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5 posted on 08/13/2022 5:49:37 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: JoSixChip
His book in Russian is entitled 'ZOV' after the symbols painted on Putin's military vehicles.

He wrote a book that will prove you the denialist tool and fool. I can't wait until it comes out in English.

6 posted on 08/13/2022 5:50:07 AM PDT by dennisw
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BS


7 posted on 08/13/2022 5:53:19 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump WON!!! The Gestapo closes ranks.)
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It would take a retarded child to believe this level of propaganda.


8 posted on 08/13/2022 5:53:24 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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... and whose fault was it that their machine guns were rusty???


9 posted on 08/13/2022 5:54:40 AM PDT by farmguy
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With all due respect, most Russian firearms work just fine when rusty. Perhaps better.

CC


10 posted on 08/13/2022 5:59:57 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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I got better...


11 posted on 08/13/2022 6:02:23 AM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: dennisw

UK Daily Fake News


12 posted on 08/13/2022 6:05:03 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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“whose fault was it that their machine guns were rusty???”

The armorer for storing them in wet conditions and the officers for not conducting periodic inspections, then neglecting to remediate the issues before the weapons were issued to the troops for combat operations!!

Total FKN Shit Show of leadership!

Stabbed in the back!

Good luck winning anything when the troops have ZERO confidence in an obviously corrupt and incompetent leadership.

This is similar to Russian army conditions of 1917. This will end in revolution.


13 posted on 08/13/2022 6:09:21 AM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: Celtic Conservative

There’s some truth there, my Army familiarization fire of Russian rifles and machine guns started with instructors digging them out of the dirt, hosing them off, shaking off the water and opening fire.


14 posted on 08/13/2022 6:10:01 AM PDT by skepsel ("A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime", Mark Twain.)
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So Russia equipped their paratroopers with rusty weapons?

And these paratroopers never considered cleaning their weapons?

Sounds like some VERY WEAK story telling.


15 posted on 08/13/2022 6:13:47 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! R)
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The Russian revolution against the Czar and Nobility was stolen by the Bolsheviks.

The Russian Serfs still have no idea how to function as a government


16 posted on 08/13/2022 6:16:43 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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I have an easier time believing they were issued weapons that still bled cosmoline when they got warm.


17 posted on 08/13/2022 6:20:28 AM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: dennisw

Reminds me of the Soviet soldiers sent to Hungary to put down the 1956 revolution who were told that they were fighting near the Suez Canal.


18 posted on 08/13/2022 6:21:01 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: farmguy

And soldiers are generally smart enough that they could swap out uniforms until most had a reasonable fit.


19 posted on 08/13/2022 6:22:45 AM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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I can get you some land in Texas at 10 cents an acre, no kidding...


20 posted on 08/13/2022 6:25:52 AM PDT by waterhill (Resist)
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