Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Russian milbloggers have spoken approvingly of the recently filmed mass execution by Russian forces of captured Ukrainian UAV operators, calling for them to be "shot like rabid dogs" who "should not live". However, some criticise it as "outright stupidity squared." ⬇️

2/ A recently published drone video shows a group of Ukrainian soldiers who had been captured in the Kursk region being stripped and executed by their Russian captors, in a blatant war crime. Russian milbloggers on Telegram don't deny it happened, and in many cases welcome it.

3/ 'Major Grom' comments:

"Firstly, this did not happen.

Secondly, you will not prove anything.

Thirdly, this will definitely happen again."

Rybar says that "such shootings on the front lines on both sides of the front are far from uncommon."

4/ They may happen if prisoners try to escape, or in the heat of battle, or if "prisoners become a burden: it is not always possible to even assign guards to them when you are conducting effective assault operations, and the success of your comrades depends on your advance."

5/ The channel calls for "all the humanitarian nonsense [to] be put aside" in the face of Ukrainian incursions into Russia and covert Ukrainian attacks on targets in Russia and the occupied parts of Ukraine.

6/ "Fighting from high offices and demanding humanity is good until you yourself find yourself on the front lines and find yourself in a 'you or them' situation. When there is an opportunity, prisoners are taken.

7/ "There is no point in justifying or blaming anyone in this case: there are people on the ground whose task is to clear Russian territory of invading forces. And as far as we can judge, this task has been activated again this week and successfully.

And calls for compliance...

8/ ... with the Geneva Convention from some Ukrainian ombudsmen look like some kind of schizophrenic cynicism: if earlier such characters declared that anything can be done with Russian troops, now they paint themselves white and try on fluffy quadrobatic clothes."

9/ 'Older than Edda' says that the mass execution is "good, but not enough. During the Great Patriotic War, there were entire units of the German army that were not taken prisoner (this also concerned the Hungarians who committed atrocities in Voronezh)."

10/ "In our case, the scumbags who entered the Kursk region and shot civilians got what they deserved. Pig drones attack civilians in the border area every day, ask the residents of Belgorod region how they would feel about such crews being captured and then exchanged."

11/ Dmitry Konanykhin is vitriolic towards "computer scientists", who he says are "one of the most politically stubborn, most unprincipled, most ruthless, most narcissistic parts of the population, who supported the Maidan, Ukrainian Nazism and the destruction of Russians."

12/ "In modern times, computer scientists are used to looking down on people, but here is an opportunity to kill people with impunity."

13/ He complains that they "felt like 'gods descended from heaven' and really enjoyed ... the feeling of omnipotence over human life and impunity... There is no drug stronger for the human brain than the unpunished disposal of another person's life."

14/ Konanykhin rejoices that the UAV operators "confident in their immortality, in their exclusivity, were shot like mad dogs. It turns out that the drones, who have gone wild with cannibalistic impunity, are being sought out, caught and not prepared for exchange."

15/ He adds that "By the way, according to all laws, terrorists can be shot."

'Rosgvardeets' writes that "even if they had not fought and surrendered, being UAV operators, I still think they should have been shot. ... UAV operators should not live."

16/ "My opinion and I do not urge anyone to support it.

First, of course, beat all the data out of them, and then dispose of them. These faggots should not live.

17/ "The war has changed here too. Previously, snipers and pilots were not taken prisoner, now UAV operators have been added."

18/ 'Callsign OSETIN' claims that "firstly, they shot themselves, secondly, when you went to the Kursk region, did you think you would be met here with bread and salt?) You are mistaken..."

19/ Dmitry Steshin condemns those who oppose the mass execution, characterising critics as "a person whose ass has never shrunk from the screech of an FPV drone. And who has never buried comrades with severed heads."

20/ "And he certainly has not weakened in the bushes or ruins, holding a drone detector in his hand.

In general, the further from the front line, the fatter and more sinless the moralizers [are] and patriots do not bend over like a penis after a pack of Viagra.

21/ As the late [Vladlen] Tatarsky used to say: 'Have you been to Donbass? Have you fought? No? Go to hell with your opinion'".

Oleg Tsarov criticises the mass execution as a mistake that will only convince the Ukrainians to fight to the death, rather than surrendering.

22/ "I am told from the front that this year there are an order of magnitude more prisoners than there were last year. Apparently, the current information campaign is aimed precisely at reducing the flow of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers willing to surrender.

23/ "If this continues, entire units will surrender and the front may collapse.

Yes, executions of prisoners definitely do not contribute to the enemy surrendering instead of fiercely fighting back to the last."

24/ 'Voenkor Astrakhan' criticises the willingness of Russian opinion leaders to justify the mass execution. "To the delight of the Ukrainian press, they are ready to justify and support everything that it has written."

25/ "No, really, if you see a person who wrote today that Ukrainian drone operators in captivity should be killed, and then hear from him the phrase "information warfare", then spit in his face."

26/ The author predicts that "in a few days, Ukraine will drag a story about mass executions of prisoners to the UN."

27/ "All the quotes from [Russian] opnion leaders, along with their quotes about their closeness to the authorities and the army, will be shown as evidence of the state approach. Then Ukraine will get some more weapons (again!).

28/ "Well, it's the kind of thing that today the same people are shouting that it's garbage, and tomorrow they will cry about it."

RAG&E Razvedos argues that the killings will (further) undermine Russia's international reputation.

29/ "I'll be brief:
▪️There is a huge difference between "take no prisoners" and "shoot prisoners".
▪️I don't want to offend anyone, but video recording of a war crime is blatant stupidity.

30/ "▪️The publication of materials that actually prove the fact of a war crime is downright stupidity squared.

Unfortunately, we are slowly but surely becoming the bearers of those ideas against which we have launched a special military operation.

31/ And this is not moralizing, but merely a statement of fact."

'Triplex' argues against the mass execution on the pragmatic grounds that Russia doesn't want its own POWs to be treated in the same way.

32/ "Just don't howl later, don't wring your hands, don't go into hysterics when the enemy shoots our surrendered boys, and mothers and fathers, wives and children won't wait for their sons, husbands and fathers.

33/ "And while you're now reveling in revenge and justification for the shooting, be so kindly prepared to look into the eyes of those whom you have deprived/will deprive of loved ones, indulging in the brutalization and brutalization of our soldiers.

34/ "And don't scream about how ours are being tortured in captivity. Just shut up. Admit that you are exactly the same scum as the enemy. And continue to spin the funnel of violence, generating violence, until it devours you itself, without even choking." /end

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