Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Russia is fighting a PR campaign rather than a war, a Russian warblogger complains. He says that Russia commanders are falsifying localised victories and painting an unduly rosy picture of success, while Ukrainian drones continue to dominate the battlefield. ⬇️

2/ Anatoly Radov (blogging as 'motopatriot78') writes:

"Unfortunately, predictably, everything has long since descended into a situation where the main thing is not to win, but to declare victory.

3/ "It doesn't matter what the situation is really like on the front line, the main thing is that everything is presented as a quick and easy victory.

4/ "Therefore, even when people from the front say that the Ukrainians have a global advantage in terms of FPV and the lower sky, hordes of coach potato armchair critics always rush in to prove the opposite.

5/ "At the same time, of course, they additionally prove that all this hype is being stirred up by warbloggers and military correspondents for the sake of urgent collections [of donations].

6/ "Apparently, these same warbloggers are forcing the fighters to say that they need UAVs, FPV [drones], repeaters, electronic warfare equipment, and so on and so forth.

7/ "And, accordingly, there are people at the top, for example, in the Duma, who think along the same lines and are trying with all their might to block all these funds. The same goes for banks, which can do nothing about card blocking.

8/ "All the Ukrainians have to do is call some call centre and claim that the card has been lost or is fraudulent.

9/ "Next, there are all these bans on Discord, through which our UAV operators broadcast, the ban on Starlink in the Donetsk People's Republic, and in the near future, I think, there will be a complete ban on donations.

10/ "In other words, everything is being done to ensure that the enemy retains its advantage in UAVs. And the enemy is fine with that. Unlike us, they support all these fees and assistance from people, continuing to defeat us in the lower sky.

11/ "But it seems to me that even the most ardent supporters are beginning to have one unpleasant thought nagging at them...

12/ "With this approach, we are gradually moving away from victory towards a situation where, sooner or later, we will be forced to accept the terms of the West and Ukraine, i.e. to freeze the conflict in the Luhansk People's Republic.

13/ "If anyone thinks this is complete nonsense, remember how long we have been taking Kupiansk, Pokrovsk... I won't even mention Konstantinivka, which has been put on hold for now.

14/ "And each time, it is becoming more and more difficult to advance. More precisely, in most cases, the advance looks like this. Two soldiers went ahead, the Ukrainians covered them, and based on this video, the OSINTers sketched the territory behind us – everyone is happy.

15/ "And no one cares that these two fighters simply died under the bombs, and in fact there is no advance. Instead, there are huge grey kill zones into which fighters are thrown again and again, because they are ‘ours’ and they have already been ‘marked on the maps’.

16/ "So, to sum up. For the armchair critics. If the West manages to break us and defeat us, then you armchair critics will also be destroyed, and your cries that everything is actually fine and we have won will not help you." /end

Source:
t.me/motopatriot78/…