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Russian Soldier Says Ukraine Almost Wiped Out His Entire Unit in Kharkiv (www.thedefensepost.com)

submitted 2 months ago by runiq@feddit.de to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz

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Coulda stayed home.

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[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 33 points 2 months ago

I suspect that “let’s walk around / drive our tanks around / etc, in the open, without having taken measures to make sure the drones can’t get us” will soon start to look like those “let’s everyone run at the machine guns at once, they can’t shoot us all” tactics from World War I that in retrospect makes the commanders look like idiots because they did them for years instead of abandoning them on week 1 when it became clear they were bad ideas

[-] Aidinthel@reddthat.com 19 points 2 months ago

Both have the same ultimate cause, as well: politicians safe at home demanding immediate results no matter what it costs.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 months ago

Coulda stayed home.

That's not really how conscription works, and especially not how it works in Russia. But on a larger scale, absolutely!

[-] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago

The Russian conscripts that shot their conscription officer upon being handed their papers would argue otherwise.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 months ago

Those are the true Russian heroes.

[-] cmder@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

I can tell you that if you give me a gun to fight in my neighbor country where I have nothing to gain and high probability of dying I will just shoot every ranked officier i see. It is exactly what said a russian lawyer that defend russian dissidents. They never call him to go to war thanks to that.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I can tell you that if you give me a gun to fight in my neighbor country where I have nothing to gain and high probability of dying I will just shoot every ranked officier i see

I'm betting you're not alone, which is why you likely won't get a gun until you are quite far away from any officers with barrier troops between you and the officers. The lesson seems like its: kill all visible Russian officers before you get a gun.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Haven't we seen Russian men refusing to serve have 2 year prison sentences? That seems like a much better choice than 4 days of training before being killed in a meatwave 7 days after being deployed.