1/ A Russian soldier fighting in Ukraine's Donbas region provides a gloomy picture of life on the front lines. A constant flow of doomed stormtroopers go on one-way trips, drones make logistics a game of Russian roulette, and thirsty men drink from muddy, corpse-filled holes. ⬇️
2/ 'BCh 3' writes on Telegram:
"It’s been said before—war gives rise to many different truths."
3/ "The enemy has one truth—that’s understandable; the bureaucrats have another; the mothers of the killed and missing have yet another; and the soldiers whose dugouts flooded yesterday—with no supplies arriving—have their own truth as they drink the water pooled at their feet,…
4/ …where the bodies of the fallen lie. And their comrades further back in the rear are losing drones trying to drop water filters for them. Many truths. Everyone is right. Everyone is working, inventing, implementing.
5/ "A thousand institutes, Rusnano, the military-industrial complex, Roscosmos, a bunch of other Ross companies, artificial intelligence programs, trillions of money, [the adventurer Fyodor] Konyukhov is flying around the world in a hot air balloon, but we can't deliver…
6/ …ten 1.5-litre bottles of water and ammunition to our positions. That truth, the truth of the trenches: closed and sealed, people almost never return from there. And everyone is lulled to sleep by television, which has its own deceitful truth.
7/ "Companies of stormtroopers marched past our position, and for a year, not a single one has returned.
8/ "There are no logistics—deliveries are carried out only by drones, with only occasional interruptions by vehicles, where every trip is Russian roulette with a revolver with four live rounds in the cylinder.
9/ "And in the eyes of the soldiers there is melancholy; the road from the trenches to home is forgotten, as they sing in one song, and only their own, those a little closer to the rear, remember them, and they rack their brains over how to provide for them, so that the boys…
10/ …can hold on. But there are no solutions, and they ride out to meet them, and they perish, fading into the sunset.
And on their feats thousands do their PR, with white tablecloths and raised shot glasses, and for Russia — two hearty cheers and one short one — “Ura!”
11/ "We can win. We must win. But for that, we must start telling the truth.
12/ "And there's no need to buy off the war with money, it's enough to breathe in the lost faith, remove all the Katyushas from TV, cancel out contracts without a term and shout on TV, "They're beating our people," like they did in 1914.
13/ "And people will go to the military registration and enlistment offices themselves. And get rid of the butchers who don't know how and don't want to learn modern warfare, but just want to curry favor. They have their own truth, too." /end
Source:
t.me/bch3by/3289
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