Posted on 08/31/2022 10:38:01 AM PDT by lump in the melting pot
When Viktor Zolotov, director of the Russian National Guard, briefed his boss, President Vladimir Putin, on Tuesday on the status of military operations in Ukraine, one remark in particular stood out.
“I especially want to emphasize that we feel the support of the population in the liberated territories,” Zolotov told a stone-faced Putin.
In reality, Russia has been struggling to rally the support of its own troops, according to internal government documents obtained exclusively by Yahoo News that detail drunken acts of insubordination six months into Putin’s invasion.
The documents include an incident and homicide report by the Russian Investigative Committee’s Military Investigations Department for the Black Sea Fleet regarding a June 19 incident in which three Russian soldiers were shot and killed and two others wounded in a gun battle with officers of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor agency to the KGB, at a bar in Kherson City, on the banks of the Dnieper River.
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Dragging hearsay from four months ago ?!?!
“”Fragging” officers is hardly an unheard-of event among disgruntled conscripts in an unpopular war.
But it has names, places and dates. All the elements in a good news article.
Could be Uke propaganda but could be true too.
Mi6 overemphasized their own propaganda. Now everyone knows that I am not pro Putin or pro Russian, but some of these stories are over the top. The British tabloids publish it, then Yahoo picks it up.
Your behind they now have the Gilbert Islands (Tarawa) - next stop Hawaii.
Dr. Himars reminds you, smoking kills...
Far Eastern troops are the most plentiful on front - they are descendants of the Mongols who were called Orcs when they invaded in the 13th century. Orcs then, Orcs now.
Drunk Russians?
About as common as a drug addicted hippy eh?
The Truth at last—Russian “Orcs” drunken barbarians! No wonder they are losing the war. These are not Stalin’s Russians. They have no heart in the fighting and that’s why they are falling back each day. Nothing can stop the final Ukraine Victory! It will be over in six weeks! No Russians in Ukraine by Christmas! Watch as The Black Sea Fleet will suffer a “Pearl Harbor” and be sent to the bottom! December will see Putin dead and Russia a real Democracy like Ukraine! 2023 will be a great new year for Ukraine and Russia!
Hope nobody had their lungs blown out.
Wait. That's only 9mm bullets. Never mind.
Sorry. If you don't eat up the Uke propaganda you will be labelled a Putinista.
Vodka is a staple food in Russia!
Wow- you should slow up on that drinking habit of yours !
Right in your face, troll!
More likely a static war like WWI where neither side can take advantage of the other. Neither have that kind of force.
Sucks for both of them and for the world at large. Just keep Us outta of it.
projection. Thank you for naming yourself. You should really give up drinking.
I was under the impression FSB was the interior ministry and only handled domestic law enforcement inside Russia, like FBI. In Ukraine SVR and GRU would be the operative agencies.
A little disappointing our side can’t even get the agencies right when faking documents.
Not just Chicago, all the Prog Leftist Democrat Big Cities and Blue States.
The question is what did YOU learn from this similarity, if anything?
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