Yes — there's no such thing as an armoured vehicle that can't be knocked out, but there is such thing as one that can be knocked out without its crew burning alive.
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Sounds about right. The internal narrative is to actually tell people what to think, the external just the "firehose of falsehood" to divide and distract.
True. I'd say this disinfo angle is targeted towards apathetic/low info RU public (which is most of them frankly) and western sympathisers in denial about how ruthless the regime really is.
They're just going to blame it on the Ukrainians, and/or "the collective west" to muddy the waters
Speculation runs that Dimi has been told by the Tsar that if he acts like the tough guy he isn't with enough bravado, he'll be allowed to sit in the big boys' chair and pretend to be president again.
More recent updates from RU state media report 4 damaged, so a nominal pricetag of $200m USD in hardware — though it may be less to repair, depending on the degree of damage. A great success, in any event.
Yes, and the watermark on the video is "total Ulan-Ude", which is a town in Buryatia, so it fits.
Here's a post with more details - yes, seems like the post I quoted is just people making a joke out of the original Latin phrasing of the payroll, which for some years was written "to the custodians and the cat" rather than the presumably intended "to the custodians for the cat".
True haha. Here's a post with more info - I take it the original wording from the Mastodon post I quoted was just being cheeky about the cat technically being on the payroll. One supposes that the cat's human aide took the money on behalf of their illustrious master ;)
@ChrisO_wiki@mastodon.social is a researcher who posts a lot of interesting stories sourced from RU news & social media relating to the home front — corruption, treatment of troops and casualties, protests by soldiers and their relatives, etc.
Also known as stalkerware or spouseware, these kinds of phone monitoring apps are often planted by someone — such as spouses or domestic partners — with physical access to a person’s phone, without their consent or knowledge.
Man. The fact that stalkerware is used so often on people's domestic partners that they call it "spouseware" is pretty fuckin' bleak.
It seems implausible in the short term, but if statements like these are in any way reflective of long term strategic goals, or even official rhetoric, it's still ominous. Of course, given the fact it's state TV, it could be the General purely reciting the party line to give the public the impression that the war is going vastly better than it really is. But it also reminds me of what were purported to be strategic planning documents leaked by FSB sources early in the war, from when Russia still believed they'd take Kyiv in three days. It described a plan to conquer the country in weeks, then present their army on the Polish border as a fait accompli and declare a no-fly zone over the Baltics as an ultimatum to NATO.
Whether that's true or not, subsequent events showed that the ZSRF was incapable of even that plan, as you say. But the very level of disparity between nominal and actual capabilities that led Moscow to believe such a thing was possible to begin with certainly doesn't speak to their ability to make accurate estimations of what their forces are capable of.