Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ The Russian government's sudden ban on the Discord app is being criticised as disastrous by Russian milbloggers, due to its impact on the Russian military's battlefield command and control. "Everyone [is] back to the level of March 2022," one says. ⬇️

https://x.com/RALee85/status/1816978111759790510

2/ Videos published by Russian military units, such as the one above, show them using the Discord instant messaging and VoIP platform to coordinate drone and artillery strikes. The abrupt decision by Russian regulator Roskomnadzor to ban Discord has blocked this for many units.

3/ Milblogger 'Troika' complains about the impact:

"At the control centres of dozens of compounds, broadcasts from drones operating through closed Discord rooms have dropped."

4/ "Thus setting everyone back to the level of March 2022.

Even the Ukrainians and America couldn't do that."

5/ 'ZHIVOV Z' says sarcastically that Ukraine should award Roskomnadzor "with a second star of the Hero of Ukraine. The first one was already awarded from Kyiv for deanonymising Russian bloggers. With such friends, we do not need enemies."

6/ 'Soldier of Fortune' asks: "What's your beef with Discord? What did they do? Do you know that the army actively uses Discord? Let's all fucking block it.

Lately I've been more pissed off with Roskomnadzor than with the Ministry of Defence."

7/ 'Varyag' complains that "😡 After Discord was blocked, all streams from birds to HQs dropped. Now instead of completing combat tasks, warriors will be figuring out how to get it all up.

To one degree or another this will affect the results."

8/ ‘Thank you’ to all those faggots who make the decisions to block."

'Dead Heads' writes: "It seems that our geniuses have seriously decided to block the operation of the service that the military uses to adjust artillery."

9/ "Well, now get ready for the time between detecting a target and hitting it to drop again, thanks to which fewer crested ones will die. And if the survivability of pigs increases, then more of ours will die."

10/ He wonders whether Roskomnadzor are "either degenerates or traitors. And it's not even clear which is worse."

11/ Lina Bulatnikova admits that "it is extremely stupid to transmit all frontline intelligence information live through Western Discord servers, which Western partners view in real time."

12/ "On the other hand, in three years of war we have not given birth to an alternative, so the failure of Discord now threatens great, to put it mildly, inconveniences."

13/ 'Bomber Harris DID NOTHING WRONG' angrily calls for "the bureaucratic creatures responsible for this decision [to] themselves go to the front lines to organise broadcast networks for UAVs, cameras and other 99+ things that are shoved through Discord onto PCs and PPUs."

14/ Roman Alekhine says "civilian officials damaged the front, which most likely increased the losses among our soldiers and equipment, everyone began to explain this to them, but then it's the end of the working day and it's time to go home, and no instructions were received."

15/ "And to hell with the front, to hell with the losses, with the fact that we don't have enough people at the front, as well as with the constant reminders from the President about the importance of victory for Russia.

16/ "The end of the working day, no one gave instructions, you can forget about it.

And again I remember the question of the officers, to which the answer again became unclear: do they really want to win there?

17/ "If they do, then the speed of reaction to requests concerning the front should be different during the war.

Perhaps tomorrow they will tell us that Discord is "leaky" and the enemy can view broadcasts from drones even in closed channels.

18/ "But even in this case, before killing this application, it was necessary to create a replacement and warn the commanders about the plans, ...

19/ ...so as not to simply break the work at the front in an instant, which will definitely increase the losses while they are looking for a replacement.

20/ "This is called seeing a little further than your nose or one step ahead, and the ability to do this, just shows whether the manager is competent or not. If this is not a planned action to weaken our fighters and help our enemy (I don't want to believe it)."

21/ 'Informant' says that "there are already reports of serious breakdowns in the work with UAVs in the SVO zone: there are no broadcasts from drones, chats do not work and there is no coordination.

22/ "Let us remind you that this application is actively used by our soldiers to exchange information in real time, now this is gone.

23/ "Roskomnadzor, thank you very much , without your initiatives life would be very boring, but now our military will have something to do – to bypass the consequences of another wise decision."

24/ 'Reverse Side of the Medal' looks on the bright side, however:

"Well, that's it, Discord - RIP...

It's becoming easier and easier to breathe without Western influence.

I ran across the meadows and hugged the birches." /end

Sources:
🔹 t.me/rustroyka1945/…
🔹 t.me/zhivoff/17331
🔹 t.me/Soldieroffortu…
🔹 t.me/varyag_online/…
🔹 t.me/Dead_heads/2366
🔹 t.me/reihatori/32410
🔹 t.me/bomber_harris_…
🔹 t.me/Alekhin_Telega…
🔹 t.me/infomil_live/1…
🔹 t.me/rsotmdivision/…