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The most recent text messages from a Russian soldier killed in Ukraine reveal the big difference between the truth on the ground and how the clash sold troops in Moscow, the besieged nation’s ambassador to the UN said.
The anonymous soldier told his mother that Russian troops were “shooting at everyone, adding civilians” and that he was looking to “hang himself,” according to Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya. Yesterday, at a UN special consultation on the unprovoked invasion of Moscow, Kyslytsya read the messages in which the mother asked her son “why didn’t you answer so long, are you sure to train?”
“Mom, I’m in Ukraine,” the soldier replied. There is a genuine war here. “In a message he allegedly sent moments before his death, he wrote: “We were told that the Ukrainians would receive us peacefully, yet they threw themselves under our machines, not letting us pass. They call us fascists, Mom.
Other Russian families expressed “shock” upon learning of “the involvement of their loved ones in the invasion of Ukraine” videos and photographs posted online, The Guardian reported.
Ukraine’s Interior Ministry has created a channel on the messaging app Telegram that contains footage and footage that would show captured Russian soldiers. their opposition” to the invasion.
The sister of a wounded soldier captured from a Russian sniper unit told the newspaper: “I am absolutely shocked. I had no idea I was fighting there. “
“No one wants this, neither Ukraine nor Russia. I that we can reach an agreement by non-violent means so that our children, brothers and husbands do not die.
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry also created a hotline called “Return Alive from Ukraine” that “received a lot of calls from relatives of the Russian army for their relatives,” the Kyiv Independent tweeted.
According to the ministry’s most recent figures, 5,700 Russian infantrymen had already been killed when the fighting entered its sixth day today. By contrast, the U. S. Department of Defense.
The number of victims in Ukraine is “unverified” and has been described through the Kremlin as “inaccurate,” Vox reported. But they “still contrast with Russia’s initial expectations” of a “swift and painless invasion. “
“In recent years, there has been a lot of communication about the progression of hybrid warfare in Russia,” the news continued. But “on the data front, Russia turns out to be wasting the war. Ukraine’s sheer volume of real-time videos and data, as well as a young president familiar with social media and broad and transparent intelligence sharing, proved to be a harsh antidote to the Kremlin’s lack of data.
Putin has “launched the predictable two-front propaganda campaign,” said Professor Mark Galeotti, a specialist in Russian security affairs and senior research associate at the London-based Royal Institute for United Services.
In an article for The Spectator, Galeotti wrote that the Kremlin has deployed “a barrage of absurd rationalizations of Russia’s invasion and legal and technological measures to control fair reporting. “But the Russian president’s “media machine” must also fight to turn this unprovoked war.
On Sunday, a deleted article in Russian state news service Tass claimed that “reliable resources in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation” had said putin was “personally incredibly disappointed with the progress of the army’s operation. “
“Was this clumsy montage?” A Ukrainian trick that added the butcher’s damning bill to a risk-free report?An act of sabotage planned through a Tass journalist?»
The answer remains unclear, but it turns out that “Putin’s propaganda device is crumbling,” Galeotti explained.
According to the latest data from OVD-Info, a Moscow-based organization that tracks politically motivated arrests, the Russian government on Tuesday arrested more than 6400 people for participating in anti-war protests since the invasion began on Feb. 24.
British and Ukrainian defense resources told the Times that “Putin believes he can capture Kiev and up to 4 other cities within 48 hours of launching his invasion. “
Experts reportedly said that in Putin’s vision, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would “cede his country to Russia at the historic Pechersk Lavra Monastery,” which the Russian leader visited in 2004.
But their war “didn’t go as planned,” said newspaper editor Larisa Brown. Instead, the invasion failed, with “Russian troops facing fierce Ukrainian resistance and analysts pointing to fundamental military tactics and lack of morale. “
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