Ukraine invasion

[Zardnaar]

This is bloody brilliant!

A lot of the Russian forces are conscripts. So, Ukraine is making an offer:

Translation of the below tweet
"Russian soldier! You were brought to our land to kill and die. Do not follow criminal orders. We guarantee you a full amnesty and 5 million rubles if you lay down your arms. For those who continue to behave like an occupier, there will be no mercy."


Why fight them, when you can just pay them not to fight?

Edit: added documentation of tweet from the Ukraine Minister of Defense

There's lots of variants on that on Reddit via Twitter.

9 billion iirc to give every soldier 100k.

15-16 years pay for the average Russian.

1 million on Putin's head.

BUT their families are in Russia so they'll never really get to spend it even if they actually got paid out.

 

[Umbran]

Source?

Sorry - clicked on post before pasting in the link. I've added the source (a tweet from the Ukrainian Minister of Defense) above.

 

[Umbran]

Well…with the recent precipitous devaluation of the ruble, it’s not as big a reward as it USED to be.

I suspect the number is picked to be nice, round, and understandable to a Russian soldier. And the ruble will bounce back after a bit.

OTOH, I’ve seen some reports that they’re asking Russian mothers to pick up their POW sons at the Ukrainian border. The optics on that could be VERY intriguing.

Yep.

Ukraine is asking Russian mothers to come pick up their sons captured in Putin's invasion

"Mama! Your POW son is waiting for you!" Ukraine's defense ministry wrote on a flyer posted to Facebook.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Eltab]

The strange connections in the world ...
A Facebook group that mostly rebroadcasts Lutheran church services and sermons is now full of material from Ukraine-based churches.
I thought Ukraine was traditionally Eastern Orthodox.

 

[Zardnaar]

Those stories have also been doing the rounds for several days.

Outright lies

Pretty much everything Russian
Ghost of Kyiv
Snake Island final stand

Take with a grain of salt.

Number of casualties inflicted (just in general)

Mad Putin narrative (anyone spoken to him recently?)

Number of Russians protesting (old footage from day 1&2)

Out of date Russian rations from 2015 (they were Russian no evidence where they came from)

Regime change in Russia (the elite are tied to Putin and he's known a few since the 1980's)

 

[Thunderfoot]

Everything on the internet is true. - Abraham Lincoln. 351 BCE.

If only my ancient predecessors knew how easy it would be to drop propaganda/misinformation/psychological warfare information in the future, they would be tickled pink. Used to, it took a ton of resources, just to make a small dent, now it's as easy as creating a website with a few pics and some dialog. Someone, somewhere is gonna bite, like fishing with dynamite in a bathtub. lol Heck you don't even have to have a reason or an agenda to be able to do it.

(This isn't a commentary on any piece of information submitted, just the processes involved.)

 

[billd91]

The strange connections in the world ...
A Facebook group that mostly rebroadcasts Lutheran church services and sermons is now full of material from Ukraine-based churches.
I thought Ukraine was traditionally Eastern Orthodox.

Is there a reason they shouldn't reach out?

 

[Zardnaar]

Justice, irony, something else?

 

[Aeson]

Well…with the recent precipitous devaluation of the ruble, it’s not as big a reward as it USED to be.

OTOH, I’ve seen some reports that they’re asking Russian mothers to pick up their POW sons at the Ukrainian border. The optics on that could be VERY intriguing.

Yeah, this is the principal at your son's school. We're gonna need you to come pick him up. It seems he's been waging war against his classmates.

 

[wicked cool]

footage today looks really bad. less than weeks and this is over in a bad way