"And as the scale of what happened comes into sharper focus, the disaster appears to be breaking through the Kremlin’s tightly controlled information bubble."
#Russia
#Ukraine
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"Russian battlefield failure is resonating w/ a stable of pro-Russian war bloggers...
“The commentary by these widely read milbloggers may fuel burgeoning doubts in Russia about Russia’s prospects in this war & the competence of Russia’s military leaders”
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"Russian command reportedly sent about 550 troops... to cross the Donets River at Bilohorivka...
Satellite images reveal that Ukrainian artillery destroyed several Russian pontoon bridges and laid waste to a tight concentration of Russian troops and equipment around the river."
"As the news of the [Russian] losses at the river crossing in Bilohorivka started to spread, some Russian bloggers did not appear to hold back in their criticism of what they said was incompetent leadership."
#Russia #Ukraine
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“The last straw that overwhelmed my patience was the events around Bilohorivka, where due to stupidity — I emphasize, because of the stupidity of the Russian command — at least one battalion tactical group was burned, possibly two.”
#Россия #РоссияСмотри
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"Another popular [pro-Russian] blogger, who goes by Starshe Eddy on Telegram, wrote that the fact that commanders left so much of their force exposed amounted to “not idiocy, but direct sabotage.”"
#Russia
#Россия #РоссияСмотри
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And a third pro-Russian military blogger, Vladlen Tatarski, posted:
“Until we get the last name of the military genius who laid down a B.T.G. by the river and he answers for it publicly, we won’t have had any military reforms”
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"Western military analysts ... say the attempted crossing demonstrated a stunning lack of tactical sense [by Russian generals]...
Kremlin has largely kept up an official silence... part of a larger campaign to suppress bad news."
#Россия #РоссияСмотри
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