If it’s a reasonably convincing decoy I’m not sure it matters a lot. Other decoys are hilariously shitty like the Russian SAM launchers that sway in the wind like of of those inflatable tube figures at a car dealership.
I really don't understand why shit like this gets posted. Decoys become less effective when the whole world knows they exist and what they look like.
https://www.ft.com/content/d9cdc51f-5fe3-4f4a-b0e8-054ef21a2a6eRussia’s budget surplus for 2022 has almost evaporated after a sharp drop in energy exports during August led to a monthly deficit of as much as Rbs360bn ($5.9bn).
SourceRussian business daily Vedomosti reported Wednesday, citing sources close to the government, that the finance ministry had told government agencies they would need to cut spending by 10% in 2023. Defense spending, however, was set to rise, Vedomosti quoted one source close to the defense ministry as saying.
Hi.Well according to @whyitso that was all the Ukrainian's fault. How dare they defend their country.
Funny how Ukraine’s military is so capable at staging fake war crimes in every place they liberate.Hi.
First, figure out how many civilians are there and how many are military. There have been publications long before about the many bodies of dead Ukrainian soldiers in that area, which the Ukrainian authorities did not want to take away. RF forces buried them, put crosses on graves, and wrote "AFU" on the crosses. Look at the pictures carefully. Victims of war crimes are not buried in neatly decorated graves with crosses.
You are ready to accept any lie of the Kiev regime that demonizes Russia.
Hi.
First, figure out how many civilians are there and how many are military. There have been publications long before about the many bodies of dead Ukrainian soldiers in that area, which the Ukrainian authorities did not want to take away. RF forces buried them, put crosses on graves, and wrote "AFU" on the crosses. Look at the pictures carefully. Victims of war crimes are not buried in neatly decorated graves with crosses.
You are ready to accept any lie of the Kiev regime that demonizes Russia.
sigh, why
Today, the artillerymen of the AFU (and, indeed, any soldiers and, especially, officers of this mercenary-aboriginal US army) can be proud - it has been a long time since they managed to hit the civilians of Donetsk so successfully. If on Sunday they managed to kill 9 civilians of the DPR and wounded 13 more with several successful hits, today - with a single 155-mm shell (kindly supplied by NATO) they "killed" 13 people (and seriously wounded many more) at once!
The hit was directed exactly to the strategic military object - a store "Jam" on the square "26 Bakinskikh Komissarov". Blood streams on the asphalt, pieces of bodies - scattered for dozens of meters. What else could be more pleasant for the "defenders of Ukraine" than the mass murder of Russian residents of Donetsk? I congratulate them (and their American masters) on this outstanding military success! And, of course, I also congratulate them on the fact that this is never a "red line" - for 8 and a half years it has been empirically established that it does not run in Donbass (and recently it turned out that even Belgorod is far from it).
What evidence would it take for you to admit Russia is engaging in systematic war crimes in Ukraine?You like to quote Strelkov aka Girkin's pessimistic posts here. Read this post of his as well:
How it was covered by Ukrainian popular news feed:
"Thirteen people were killed after the shelling of Donetsk by the Rashists.
The occupants shelled Baku Commissars Square in the Kuibyshevsky district of the city. The Rashists themselves blame the Ukrainian Armed Forces."
In all such cases, the laughing smiley used to have the advantage, but now it has been removed from the reaction options.
Who do you think the people of Donetsk blame for the shelling? This is one of the shelling that has been going on for over eight years. What do they think of the Ukrainian government when they see the Ukrainian version of events and these smiley faces?
Hi.
First, figure out how many civilians are there and how many are military. There have been publications long before about the many bodies of dead Ukrainian soldiers in that area, which the Ukrainian authorities did not want to take away. RF forces buried them, put crosses on graves, and wrote "AFU" on the crosses. Look at the pictures carefully. Victims of war crimes are not buried in neatly decorated graves with crosses.
You are ready to accept any lie of the Kiev regime that demonizes Russia.
*puts on Russian propagandist hat*Comrade! Looks like you're not supporting your leader on the ground in the war you support, why it so?
Russia demonizes itself with it's own ACTIONS, you accept (and promote) any lie that legitimizes and excuses their crimes.
Feel free to address that clip I posted about the child kidnapping, sending Ukrainian children to more than a dozen different regions of Russia - described by the Russians doing it.
mobilization from the grassroots is already underway. The authorities and the general staff do not explain what they are doing and how they are correcting mistakes, so more and more of society is getting involved in helping the front. There is a growing understanding that this is a war of the United States and its allies to destroy Russia. And the elites are acting as if they still hope to negotiate over their seized capitals and return everything to the way it was. Or negotiate and buy Ukrainian elites. Or to buy Western politicians. Or buy more troops. In general, to defeat evil with money. And people are better off fighting for ideas and they are in severe dissonance from what is going on.Russia could be stoking up the scare factor. Will a frighten public support full mobilisation?
Hi.
First, figure out how many civilians are there and how many are military. There have been publications long before about the many bodies of dead Ukrainian soldiers in that area, which the Ukrainian authorities did not want to take away. RF forces buried them, put crosses on graves, and wrote "AFU" on the crosses. Look at the pictures carefully. Victims of war crimes are not buried in neatly decorated graves with crosses.
You are ready to accept any lie of the Kiev regime that demonizes Russia.
You are being lied to. Russian forces can leave whenever they like, and this will end.There is a growing understanding that this is a war of the United States and its allies to destroy Russia.
Hi.
First, figure out how many civilians are there and how many are military. There have been publications long before about the many bodies of dead Ukrainian soldiers in that area, which the Ukrainian authorities did not want to take away. RF forces buried them, put crosses on graves, and wrote "AFU" on the crosses.
I don't like Putin, voted for the opposition and funded it. But now I despise those people in opposition who wish for the defeat of our country and the death of motherland soldiers. And most of people the same.Putin is an autocrat who is known to rig elections and have political opponents assassinated. Why would you trust him or his leadership after that?
is an old schemer, long ago turned into a producer pushing her protégés onto the stage. She has no reputation and never had any moral authority, which doesn't make her pop songs any worse.For that matter, even Russian music legends like Alla Pugacheva have condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a waste of life for "illusory aims." If one of your country's most iconic figures can see the truth, surely that should give you something to think about.
mobilization from the grassroots is already underway. The authorities and the general staff do not explain what they are doing and how they are correcting mistakes, so more and more of society is getting involved in helping the front. There is a growing understanding that this is a war of the United States and its allies to destroy Russia. And the elites are acting as if they still hope to negotiate over their seized capitals and return everything to the way it was. Or negotiate and buy Ukrainian elites. Or to buy Western politicians. Or buy more troops. In general, to defeat evil with money. And people are better off fighting for ideas and they are in severe dissonance from what is going on.
And there are more and more demands to respond with cruelty for cruelty, to destroy all power plants in Ukraine, as Ukraine does with Donetsk and Russian territories.
Haha. Abandon Donetsk, Lugansk and Crimea? It is Zelensky peace conditions. And Ukrainians would be pleased imminently and will not require astronomical reparations and terrorist groups wouldn't attack Russia every day after the peace declaration?You are being lied to. Russian forces can leave whenever they like, and this will end.
Do you really believe in stealing washing machines? Contract soldiers with a salary of 3300 USD will steal used washing machines (150 USD price of new one) with a delivery price of 300 USD?Great! So did you pack enough strops to help carry back some coveted washing machines during your inevitable retreat?
Abandoning those places is also known as 'stopping the invasion of Ukraine'.Haha. Abandon Donetsk, Lugansk and Crimea? It is Zelensky peace conditions. And Ukrainians would be pleased imminently and will not require astronomical reparations and terrorist groups wouldn't attack Russia every day after the peace declaration?
Do you really believe in stealing washing machines? Contract soldiers with a salary of 3300 USD will steal used washing machines (150 USD price of new one) with a delivery price of 300 USD?
I think you're a smart man and you're just trolling me.