Posted on 12/21/2022 4:44:55 AM PST by Timber Rattler
Out on the frontline, near the eastern Ukrainian city of Lyman, on 8 November at 15.10, a Russian serviceman called Andrey decided to ignore the orders of his superiors and call his mother with an unauthorised mobile phone.
“No one feeds us anything, mum,” he complained. “Our supply is s**t, to be honest. We draw water from puddles, then we strain it and drink it.”
Russian forces had been on the back foot in the Donetsk oblast for weeks. Lyman, taken by the Russians in May, was liberated by Ukrainian forces in October.
Two days before Andrey made his afternoon call back home, the Russian forces had “finally” started firing at Ukrainian positions with phosphorus bombs, he told his mother, but the promises of munitions that could turn the battle had come to nothing.
“Where are the missiles that Putin boasted about?” he asked. “There is a high-rise building right in front of us. Our soldiers can’t hit it. We need one Caliber cruise missile and that’s it.”
Andrey reassured his mother, who lives in Kostroma, a city 310 miles north-east of Moscow, that he would be OK. “I always say prayers Mum,” he said. “Every morning.”
It is not known whether those prayers were met. When approached by the Guardian his mother said her son was not with her, before breaking down in tears and putting the phone down.
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Do you hate your country, Comrade Travis? Because it sure seems like you do.
They don’t put that in the brochure.
No they don’t. The Russian contract soldiers, conscripts, and mobiki are all lied to, through and through.
Do you love corruption Herr Rattler? It seems you do.
Wow… a new wrinkle. Instead of producing the hoax “intercept” and then directly releasing it on YouTube, Ukrainian Intelligence produces the hoax and gives it to The Guardian to disseminate.
Suggestion for Ukrainian Intelligence and their CIA advisors: make the intercept just a bit less “over the top”. It would be more believable.
Are you Ray Epps?
Right, because after 10 months of invasion nothing says success, as Russia losing half the territory it conquered in Ukraine and continually 'strategically withdrawing'. Idiocy
Right, so the idiotic argument is that this somehow justifies foreign invasion, genocide, and annexation by a more corrupt neighbor? Moronic
You deserve this, you're government is corrupt!
Could have fooled me, Comrade Travis, since you post a lot of anti-American diatribes and memes.
I was referring to the American corruption of knowing spreading lies on social media through alias propaganda. I could care less about the Ukranian war as long as we stay out. It’s none of our business and we have have no national interests. We are waging a proxy war against Russia solely to protect our best asset in money laundering.
Right, lets just ignore 'peaceful' Putin's nuclear threat's against NATO countries and demands NATO withdraw from Poland and the Baltic countries.
It seems that both of you have missed the primary point.
That point is that the cell phones of the Russian troops are continuously monitored and are now published for all to hear. Although not all are published, those that are relate situations where the Russian women at home complain to the soldiers to come home rather than die on a battlefield where they have no real chance of survival.
The soldiers relate that they are cold, often hungry, lack support weapons, are drunk, fear the constant surveillance of grenade dropping drones and are increasingly wet. The wives and mothers are aware of specific regimental units and relate gossip among the women at home.
Of course, the point may have been actually taken and the Pentagon post was made in a feeble effort to change the subject. The phone call intercept subject was known to be correct and was contrary to the war crime supporting efforts
Being against the globalist fiasco in Ukraine is very pro-American. We need to reclaim America from these ghouls. These creeps don’t get to decide what a true American supports.
You can’t differentiate between expense and investment. The world supports Ukraine and is making anti Russian investments that will pay future yields
interesting, we know for sure that describes the Ukies condition on the front. Looks like they use the same technique the Dems to here. Accuse the opposite side of the same thing they are doing. How curious it isn’t.
Your archaic notions of corruption are passe.
History will record that Ukraine defeated the Russian war criminals on the battlefield where they early on shot their wad. Russia has been shown not to be a super power but rather home to a failed military that is just plain incompetent on the battlefield.
Wow....... you got to say Globalist!
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