Irony is alive and well—and horrifically so—in Russia’s wider war on Ukraine.
Ukrainian forces struck a Russian GPS-jammer … with a GPS-guided bomb. Ukraine sold upgraded BMP fighting vehicles to Georgia, where Russia captured them—then sent them back to Ukraine to get blown up.
And then, at the Russian Artillery Festival, Russian troops were shelled, you guessed it, with artillery. These are believed to be the Ukrainian military’s high-mobility artillery rocket systems.
The Russian artillery holiday falls on Nov. 19. To celebrate it, Russian troops attended a performance by Russian actress Polina Menshikh at a dance hall in Kumachove, a village in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast.
A video from the performance depicts the Russians reacting to the sound of incoming rockets. Photos purport to show some of the reported 25 victims of the strike. Multiple media outlets have confirmed Menshikh’s death.
Russian resources claim that the dam comes from a Ukrainian HIMARS. Ukrainian resources hinted that this was in retaliation for a Russian attack on Ukrainian troops on Ukrainian Artillery Day on November 3.
Troops from the Ukrainian army’s 128th Mountain Brigade had gathered for a rite near the front line in Zaporizhzhia Oblast when a Russian missile hit and killed 19 of them.
The Zaporizhzhia incident triggered an investigation by Ukrainian authorities into the officer who convened the ceremony. The Donetsk incident likewise triggered an investigation by Russian authorities.