Mind boggling thread. See below for translation. Even more shocking is that Russian soldiers are using unencrypted civilian radios to communicate (Chinese Baofeng walkie-talkies captured). Did some oligarch get the contract and swapped cheap radios to pocket the difference?
Good thread on how scandalously easy it is to eavesdrop on Russian forces. It’s becoming clearer why US intelligence officials were so confident in their “predictions” about Russian intentions. Even amateurs can listen-in & troll or jam the invaders. I’m positively slack jawed!😱
It was a wannabe oligarch. Slap a Russian label on Chinese equipment and pocket the difference!🧵👇
Did it not occur to anyone to replace the equipment before going to war? I mean inside Russia — western & Chinese intelligence agencies obviously knew they hit the jackpot.
The world should be delivering similar radios to Ukrainian defenders. Russian corruption has made this almost too easy.
This is some next-level trolling. 🐽
Hard to imagine how a govt that engages in so much hacking & internet subversion can be so INCREDIBLY BAD at securing its own military communications, but if any Russian speakers want to listen-in, perhaps you can find some useful intelligence. Their incompetence is breathtaking!
Putin confiscated cell phones before his troops crossed the border.
Russian corruption means they also substituted cheap radios to pocket the difference instead of equipping troops with encrypted comms.
Using local SIM cards makes it ridiculously easy to listen in on everything.
They’re being tracked by a drone, they’re using cheap unencrypted radios to communicate, and still they do this.
Fourth Russian General Killed in Ukraine thedailybeast.com/russia-loses-f… Maj. Gen. Oleg Mitayev was former deputy commander in Syria. Killed storming Mariupol. Of the 20 Russian generals thought to be leading the invasion, they’ve lost 1/5. Cheap radios mean leading from the front.🎯 💀
We he also using an unsecured phone? 🙄
They are still having difficulties in integrating air/ground ops, a significant portion of their precision-guided weapons are failing to launch or are not exploding on impact and they are often using unclassified communications equipment that is "not as strong as it should be."🙄
When this war is over, Russian survivors are going to want to hunt down the corrupt officials who bought cheap unencrypted civilian radios instead of military grade communications equipment and pocketed the money. This corruption is responsible for a staggering number of deaths.
U.S. assesses up to 60% failure rate for some Russian missiles, officials say reuters.com/business/aeros… Still more successful than their communications equipment. At least these missile failures aren’t getting their own generals killed.😬
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