Tortured, beaten and raped: severe atrocities of Russians against Ukrainian prisoners of war

New information about Russian atrocities against Ukrainian prisoners of war appeared thanks to an interview with an officer who escaped from the Russian army. Konstantin Yefremov spoke in detail about torture, threats of execution, and rape, about how Ukrainian prisoners of war are starved and deprived of medical care. The Russian side is silent about the crimes and still does not allow the Red Cross Mission and other monitoring groups to see Ukrainian prisoners of war, Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said. More details - learn in our story.
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[@ilirllukaci5345]

Now THAT'S the Russia we all know and hate.

[@u.h.h4915]

💙💛👍🏻

[@ziggyustar3137]

it's individuals who are sicker than Putin/ most of the nation has been shut up for so long they don't now truth from a dog barking/ Alexander Novalya has been tortured too// living in isolation to try to drive him mad. I pray for Alexander please join me in prayer for solutions to help all peoples who are under dictatorships and running for their lives/ just like my Dad at age 9 1939

[@LisaNH934]

@@ziggyustar3137 🙏

[@BurntheKremlin966]

Exactly!

[@ziggyustar3137]

@@LisaNH934 thank You

[@natalieturko4808]

Russia is a sick society. Imagine doing such unspeakable things to other human beings. Meanwhile, Russian POWs are housed, fed, and receive medical attention. The world needs to know what Russia is doing, and it should appear on the front page of every newspaper and on ever TV channel.

[@H.J.U.49]

Russian military is so twisted and primitive in the treatment of their own soldiers that their reptilian brains do not understand how to behave in a human way!

[@JohnDoe-vy5hh]

I hate Russia.

[@kevinwilson455]

Make no mistake... their crimes have been noticed and are being investigated.... but it will be a hollow victory for the victims. Russians will be going through the Hague for the next 50-100 years, which means I will not be alive for most of them. Sorry for the bluntless, but you are making out the world does not care, when there are tens of thousands of cases being processed right now... and they will be heard.

[@downbymysinsofficial]

They never had it so good until they got caught!

[@johngacsi4360]

😆😆😆👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@irenec2863]

"Torture in general in russia is an ordinary process because the federation itself is a state which cannot exist without torture." russia in its present state needs to be dissolved. Stay strong, brave Ukrainians. Thank you for fighting this evil.💪 🇺🇦

[@KrustyKlown]

Cruelty is the goal

[@starmnsixty1209]

Very well put. Russia as it is today badly needs to be broken up, and we All should dedicate ourselves to ridding the world of the evil that is Russia.

[@irenec2863]

@@KrustyKlown True. As they have shown, the russian federation is a federation of cruelty and terrorism.

[@irenec2863]

@@starmnsixty1209 I agree with you 💯.

[@eh1702]

Russia is busy sacrificing its young men including those who usually are placed as de facto occupation forces to keep ethnic minorities and nations suppressed. Without them, Russia is going to dissolve itself. It doesn’t need help to do it.

[@nian60]

This is why we must give Ukraine maximum military support to defeat Mordor. Because if we don't, we are next.

[@Fabian-Wenzel]

You are absolutely right. The West is supplying Ukraine with weapons and ammunition as if they had put on the handbrake. Russia would feel strengthened by a victory over Ukraine in the intoxication of invincibility. Out of the feeling of false strength, NATO countries are then attacked from Russia and so begins the third world war caused by Russia. The West wants a negotiated solution, and they should have learned from history that appeasement of fascist dictators will not help. As with Hitler, it will only have the opposite effect. Consequently, there is only the solution that you suggested, that Ukraine obtains the weapons systems that guarantee a military victory for Ukraine. Russia must be severely defeated militarily. The sanctions against Russia will have to become much tougher to ensure that the Russian economy collapses for good and the ruble's exchange rate plummets.

[@amazingdany]

Who's _we?_

[@464nescio6]

We must give Ukraine maximum military support because that is the right thing to do. Sure there is some self interest in the background but that should not be the decisive matter. The goal here is to establish the rule of law applying to everyone and every institution.

[@464nescio6]

@@amazingdany Every decent person who is willing to be accountable to the rule of law.. Fyi

[@amazingdany]

@@464nescio6 🤣

[@DavidGetling]

At the start of WW II by father was caught crossing into Russian occupied Poland, from German occupied Poland, and sent to a Russian labour camp. There he saw a lot of fellow prisoners die. My mother told me that many years later he still used to wake up screaming from nightmares about this. We should also never forget the cold-blooded murder of 22,000 Polish offices at Katyn: and there were other such incidents. More than 70 years on the Russians are still the same rabid animals.

[@nedrain9044]

Of 91,000 German POWs captured by the Russians at Stalingrad, 6,000 made it home alive. The rest died in captivity. These murdering beasts haven't changed.

[@H.J.U.49]

The behavior of the Russians in Ukraine is worse than animalistic. Animals do not kill to be evil or particularly sadistic towards their prey. To compare Russian soldiers to animals is to insult animals!

[@emmajk7433]

I hope justice comes ASAP

[@linato1855]

Sounds like savages. Stay strong Ukraine! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@francoisschrijvers7237]

savages race

[@its_Today_]

Barbarism embedded in ruZZia’s sick society.. this is why pootin’s threat of jail is so effective sadly.. russians know the sadistic practices that go on there, rapes/mops/torture, simply evil vileness

[@Langhammar]

From Sweden, Gotland: I have read Konstantin Jefremov's story in the Swedish media. I'm not surprised, I think the story is genuine! Слава Україні!

[@martinzitnak8547]

Sweden must very soon join NATO, Russia is threat to our planet

[@johnschuring5726]

This is why the whole world is backing Ukraine in this war.

[@JonROlsen]

Maybe only 12 % of whole world is backing the US War in Ukraine.

[@carlhash6540]

China, Iran, North Korean, Pakistan = 2 billion people Whole world? 🤔

[@jonathanbelanger6574]

@@carlhash6540 shitholes who beat their people for speaking out

[@narutoionel8842]

@@carlhash6540 whole world not orcs

[@onerva0001]

I hate "liking" this video, but for the sake of the algorithm I must. Heroyam slava! 🇫🇮❤️🇺🇦

[@tka1528]

SLAVA UKRAINE! 💙💛

[@raimobrunning3657]

HEROYAM SLAVA 🇺🇦🇺🇦 ✊

[@imaginemetoo]

Yikes....What is wrong with orcs? Why torture, why r@pe?! SLAVA UKRAINI HEROES DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM 🇺🇦✌️

[@H.J.U.49]

Because that's the only thing their reptilian brains can figure out, that's how they're made in the Russian military!🦨🦨

[@justint361]

because Russians are gay

[@ziggyustar3137]

As if foot soldiers have the master plan? it's just fun for the losers to be less than human/ but war crimes are coming for these bastards

[@imaginemetoo]

@@ziggyustar3137 Over the years and now everything I've studied, watched and learned they are a horde of criminal psychopaths, deluded with grandeur and contempt ! No punishment is good enough ! 🇺🇦

[@laars0001]

When many citizens don't know what a toilet is all the viciousness seems like a normal every day thing to them.

[@barbaraduffell8179]

So sad. But very much believable. Prayers for these prisoners. 🙏💔

[@mrnobody3161]

Another consequence of torture is trauma. Trauma can sometimes be genetically inherited by future generations. I think ruZZians know this. They have experienced it themselves for over a thousand years of the ruZZian state traumatizing its citizens. Yet, ruZZians appear to embrace this collective trauma, almost taking pride in it. The Ukrainian people are entirely different. They seek healing from trauma, not a perpetuation of it. 💙Slava Ukraini!💛

[@starmnsixty1209]

Excellently stated. Wish more of the media would cover the atrocities Russia is responsible for.

[@LisaNH934]

Heroyam slava 💙💛

[@deecee1522]

putin to the hague!

[@ziggyustar3137]

to the grave only way to stop him & his former chef/. let GOD deal with him and his crimes against the innocent/. Torturing him would make u no better than him joy should never come from the agony of others/ hurting Putin take his $$ away he is never gonna win this war/

[@paintballusa1658]

So disgusting and barbaric 😡👎 Prayers that the POW’s will recover mentally, physically and emotionally 🙏🏻💙💛🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@samanthav8728]

This is so horrible and evil. When I see video after video of the men fighting on the frontlines, in trenches and street to street - They are healthy weights! Some even look "very well fed", lol. When AFU men come back from captivity they are mere shells of men but the fire in their eyes is still alive and so intense! Stay strong Ukraine. However, I am beginning to think that "STRONG" is all you know! Amazing

[@bjkjoseph]

Victory for Ukraine, it is an absolute must. The west needs to move their asses, give Ukraine everything they need to win right now,not six months from now

[@tonyv8925]

Thank you for this video. I pray that the war criminals will be judged in the high court of the Lord.

[@luisgoncalves2121]

Europeans are quite do ua soldats died for us slava ua

[@sumiland6445]

💛💙💔💙💛 Can RussianZ be more preverted?? God, please bless and protect these dear Ukrainians! We will surround them with our love 🥺❤

[@FlashBack-nk4ju]

Please post war crimes trials when they begin 👍🇺🇦🇨🇦

[@Jyshrii]

They have established a court in the Hague which is amassing evidence for trials. I don't know if they will start while the war is in progress. It would be good to try individuals that are know to have murdered, tortured, raped, and mutilated Ukrainians. Those who gave the orders, including Putin, for this criminal war, will probably have to wait until after Ukraine has expelled Russia from its territory. Slava Ukraini!

[@ziggyustar3137]

I will be there for every hearing; every time they offer a life sentence for torture I will be a cheerleader for those who lost their lives as shit disturbers get sentenced / perhaps they can get Alexander Novaya cell as he will be freed soon pray with me for the release of Alexander 🙏 and quick correction for those who never valued life

[@bigdaddyrat7854]

The atrocities against civilians are inevitably going to have long term consequences for not only Russia's economic and geo-political future but also for the future of Russians in diaspora.

[@DANIELWAGNER-tr1vh]

אל דאגה אוקראינים יקרים -העניין בטיפול !!😎👌👌⚔🔯🕎🔯⚔⚡⚡⚡GLORY TO UKRAINE 💙💛💙💛👍✌✌💯

[@PatriciaSantos-qt9lw]

Endless ruSSian crimes against Humanity!

[@kniespel6243]

I hope soon to be a second Nuremberg trial! This time for russians who commited crimes and atrocities! After ww2 they moved fast ,in 2 years ! We will see now.

[@MasterAdam100]

Yes, these Fascist Russians will face the same fate as Fascist Germans did.

[@s.m.1354]

Dear friends, We in the Netherlands will reintroduce social service. This isn’t about joining the military, a person can also service the hospital, learning traits to use when a pandemic hits the fan. The goal is to create unity and more important: to battle the propaganda of Brokers. Not everybody can be rich, and it works extremely destabilizing on the long term. A person aged 17 will perform social service for 1 year, to contribute to society. Experiments have shown, that young adults will make better choices after this service. I encourage Ukraine, to do the same, especially with foster children, in order to boost unity and the Ukrainian identity. This is not child labor or slavery, this is the lesson called: life experience.

[@raimobrunning3657]

It's a good idea, but with people like putin and his gang, We still need military.

[@s.m.1354]

@@raimobrunning3657 you are right, that’s why the military is one of the options, a democratic adolescent is allowed to choose!!:)

[@KrustyKlown]

Such programs can be educational, and lead to a future adult job ... many Western countries could use such programs, and if voluntary, could be very popular.

[@s.m.1354]

@@KrustyKlown that’s why I share the info with my Ukrainian friends, on one of the most observed channels out there. We come further with cooperation and alignment. A social democratic world, where investors and sewage engineers bleed the same blood.

[@dennisyoung4631]

I wish I could have done that 45+ years ago. I was not able to get into the military due to being born deaf on my right side (Goldenhar Syndrome) and really nearsighted.

[@henriettemcpartlin8640]

pray peace all around

[@admilsonoo7]

Вы, критики Зеленского, впервые поставьте себя на его место... Что, если ваша страна подверглась нападению и вторжению? Что бы ты сделал?... Убежал?, все отдал? Или будешь драться? Я буду защищать свою страну, но никогда не вторгаюсь в чужую.

[@H.J.U.49]

Хорошо сказано!💛💙

[@its_Today_]

Who on this earth has been critical of Prez Zelenskiy?? Only paid ruski trollies far as I’ve ever heard.. 😒 Truly the Whole Free world is in awe, exactly the fella to lead Ukraine in this heinous time..he’s been extraordinarily remarkable 🥳 💙💛💙🇺🇦

[@H.J.U.49]

@@its_Today_ As true as it is said!🙂

[@nivek5031]

The time will come when these criminals face tribunals and are sentenced to long, hard-labour prison sentences or possibly executions. 😑

[@luisgoncalves2121]

Slava ukranian

[@u.h.h4915]

💙💙💙💙✊🏻✊🏻💛💛💛💛

[@uribensh]

Glory to Ukraine

[@kdexter2690]

Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 from Greece 🇬🇷

[@choppering]

Thanks for sharing it, even if it’s terrible. Slava Ukraini.

[@bernadettedunn6129]

Brave Ukrainians. Slava Ukraine!

[@nelotharen8599]

We need to give Ukraine everything we can spare.

[@ilirllukaci5345]

My father was a political prisoner in Belgrade at the beginning of the Cold War. Just before a scheduled inspection from the Red Cross, the guards would remove prisoners from their cells, stand them up, and beat them. The prisoner, taken by surprise, would fall to the floor and cry out in pain. The guards would stand him up again and ask him why he screamed. The prisoner would answer "because you hit me". The guard would shout "liar" and hit him again. The prisoner would fall and yell and the guard would ask "did I hit you?". The prisoner would say yes and he would be hit again. The guard would ask again "did I hit you?". The prisoner said no and was put back in his cell. One time though a prisoner was dragged up the stone steps by his feet. You knew this because on the stones there was a trail of human brains that came out of the prisoner's cracked skull. My father was 20 years old when he saw this.

[@carolekjellander8917]

What a horrible story. Unbelievable cruelty as a way of life.

[@ilirllukaci5345]

@@carolekjellander8917 Just always remember that Milosevic was the original post cold war prototype for Putin. Milosevic went counterclockwise starting with Croatia then Bosnia then Kosovo and threatened Macedonia. Putin went clockwise starting with Chechnya and Georgia and Syria and going to Ukraine. Both hopefully end at the Hague.

[@carolekjellander8917]

@@ilirllukaci5345 Hi, Ilir, good information, thank you. My husband's family on one side are if Swedish descent.

[@ilirllukaci5345]

@@carolekjellander8917 My father had a very rich life story, but I will give you a condensed version of how that episode ended. From that political prison he went to a concentration camp in Slovenia, then with the help of the UN and a CIA backed anti communist organization to a refugee camp in Trieste, then swam across the river Isonzo into Italy, took a train to Rome, got a scholarship for electrical engineering at the University of Rome, got his PhD, was brought to New York by the US government, started his career at the beginning of the transistor boom, bought a brand new blue mustang, got married and started a family. He never saw his Albanian homeland again until he was 60 years old with the fall of the Iron Curtain.

[@carolekjellander8917]

@@ilirllukaci5345 Wow, Ilir, what a lot of unjust suffering your dad went through, and what a transition to a fuller and more meaningful life! Amazing. My ancestors (both paternal grandparents) fled Poland and Hungary areas where they were at risk of the Haulocaust (they came from Orthodox Jewish families, and Russia had pograms). My whole existence, and that of my own wonderful child, were contingent upon my family escaping Russia and Germany during WWII.

[@1405annie]

All these Russians who surrendered to ukraine should join ukraine..to fight the Kremlin..god BLESS Ukraine 🙏🇺🇦💓🙏🇺🇦

[@tomf4087]

What will make an army fight even more ferociously is the fear of being tortured as a prisoner. But also the thought of your friends, brothers, fellow fighters being tortured. So well done Russia for making Ukraine better fighters.

[@samorayee420]

Ukraine didn't torture any Russian military . of course war captives first time maybe kick slap but not torture if so this is war crime ukraine treat them in the right way food shelter freedom can call their family . but sometimes a person like him I feel like if capture once again it's gone becharge his life time

[@steviegibson5847]

They are animals. Karma will prevail.

[@thaddeusdoyle5086]

I pray and invite all true Christians to join me in praying for all war criminals to be brought to justice. In Jesus's name. Without this, there can be no just and permanent end to this war.

[@emmajk7433]

Amen 🙏

[@mapuche888]

Amen

[@lukav577]

🙏🏻

[@barbaraduffell8179]

Amen! 🙏

[@henriettemcpartlin8640]

saw that interview

[@laars0001]

Russia: Why people no like us, we have oil??

[@ziggyustar3137]

mislead misguided completely beguiled society who thinks we are against the people/ No just Putin & his chef/ the rest of society live & let live

[@raveboymtc2448]

Wow I didn't know russian soldiers are gay

[@ZhovtoBlakytniy]

Yep

[@karinjohansson7262]

It is not about being gay! It is about control!

[@raveboymtc2448]

@@karinjohansson7262 still gay tho

[@H.J.U.49]

It's about humiliating the opponent, exposing him to something they themselves fear .. namely being raped by a man!

[@Jyshrii]

He said "Bring a broom" and photographed the Russians inserting the broomstick into the Ukrainian's anus. This is about power, humiliation, and rejecting the humanity of the victim. Actual rape is no different. It is about obliterating the victim. No one rapes anyone, man or woman, who respects that man or woman. Rape is always about extreme disrespect and power.

[@kristensorensen2219]

#677👍😝Disgusting!

[@joseolivarra7791]

I thought about this alot they won't exchange the tortured POWs those are getting executed SEND MORE WEAPONS SLAVA UKRAINE 🇺🇦

[@brianfreeman8290]

Animals !

[@BurntheKremlin966]

Barbares will have a barbaric fate!!

[@emiliasegador9772]

What if the situation is on them

[@jennasy2010]

Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦 Stop putin

[@realsinisterminister]

Oh noooooooooo captured and bumed!!!!!!

[@Laughing_Lord]

nice proof)

[@minecraftacc1709]

There are several footage of ukrainian troops killing russian pows or injured soldier...in this war both side is evil...you cant just say that ukrain is the real hero.

[@phillee2814]

This man will make an excellent witness for the prosecution of the sub-human inhumanity if there are any left to prosecute when the Kremlin has finished sending them for extermination on the front lines. Their surrender for trial MUST be part of the terms of surrender by whoever is left in change after the collapse of the Russian empire. For their own sake, it might be better if hey do not survive the war. For humanity's sake, too - they could not be held with ordinary, decent criminals, who they may contaminate or risk lengthening the sentence of when those ordinary decent criminals conduct a much-needed cleaning of the gene pool. I would suggest a token amount for doing the world that favour and saving the cost of keeping them in jail for what would have to be a whole-life sentence. Besides, it would be hard to argue against a defence that the crime of murder requires a human victim, rather than a pest control operation. And then they have the cheek to complain of russophobia in the civilised world? I've scraped higher life forms off my shoe after not looking where I was treading.

[@annamariaesposito2724]

Orrible

[@tiglatus]

iam sure that both, russia and ukraine handle their pows without white gloves!!!

[@sammanns]

Bring Russia to their knees. This says a lot about how Russian society is. Violence is the norm for this country. They embrace and accept it. I’m not just basing this on this narrative but numerous media reports, interviews of Russian citizens, recorded phone calls between soldiers and their parent’s, wives,girlfriends and friends. This countries history is oppression and violence.. I wasn’t a hateful person before Russian terrorists attacked Ukraine but I’m becoming one now.

[@HAPninKEN]

so funny. Putin throws a gernade, Ukraine pulls the pin and throws it back.... good bye to Russia.. and VICTORY FOR UKRAINE

[@Wagner_Enjoyer]

Slava rossii

[@SundraTanakoh]

Time to make Russian civilians and prisoners pay....

[@mattyvishez]

u cant beat hate with hate, u only get more hate.

[@isla25]

No, we are better than these russian animals and cannot stoop to their vile level.

[@Jyshrii]

The Russian people need to learn the truth about this war and about the crimes against both foreigners and Russians, whom they poison and wrongfully imprison. That will cause suffering because they will be ashamed of their country, but the important thing is that they realize they have a history of imperialism and it needs to stop. It is shameful of Russia and makes it a pariah. It leaves Russia isolated from countries based on the rule of international and internal law and also disconnects Russia's economy from those countries. Russians have a history of subservience to a central power, first the Czars, then the Soviets, and now Putin. "I am not political" is their motto, and this war and others such as against Georgia are the result. The passivity of the Russian citizens and willingness to hate without reason, that is, to become fascists, enables Russia's atrocities. They can't avoid responsibility by being passive. Sins of omission are sins as much as are sins of commission. Ukrainians have a history of independence, starting with the Cossacks. They show it with the Orange Revolution and the Euromaidan, and they are showing it now. Slava Ukraini!

[@nian60]

I wouldn't mind.

[@hicsunt1589]

@@mattyvishez And?

[@ramrai5783]

😀

[@b0w3rick43]

Freedom of Russia Legion 🩶💙🩶

[@joelgaas858]

By these form of terror they must be punish!

[@user-gq8ep8ry2v]

Awww, what did war terrorists expect ? A warm blanket and a cop of tea? Dear Ukrainians stop oppressing Russian civilians and Donbas ?

[@rogerout8875]

😂 3 month old account

[@user-gq8ep8ry2v]

@@rogerout8875 I mean in that short period of time, I managed to edit my profile picture, how about you ? 10 month and still hasn’t manage to edit your profile picture, do you need help?

[@kastah]

still old news

[@hicsunt1589]

Still the brutality of the orcs

[@RobertMorpheal]

The Russians are far more capable of manufacturing military equipment, and have been manufacturing on an ongoing basis. That was discerned from a broadcast of some discussion among Russian officials where very expedited deliveries were being demanded by the Putin regime. Of course they can still get everything they need, or can make it if they cannot get it. Russia is not quite as backward a nation, nor is it as isolated and cut off from foreign supply as some in the media suggest. They are simply wrong in their mislead. Not sure if Russian propaganda has been successful in that regard, or whether it is simply prejudice and ignorance in relation to the facts. While Russia has continually lacked the ability to manufacture some civilian sector products its military industrial complex was typically more self sufficient than the West tends to give it credit for. Russia, similar to its prior incarnation as the USSR, does not like to have the facts about its military industrial complex come out into public. Russian media are not permitted to expose those sorts of details. We can assume that Russia has everything it needs in terms of its vast wealth of raw materials, and as to its capability of manufacturing specialized military items, across the full spectrum of componentry and parts. Even though there are things that Russia is not good at, or not considered able, to produce in large commercial quantities, we should not assume that they cannot produce what they need for military production in specialized workshops. That does not in anyway go against Russia's preference to obtain some dual purpose, civilian and military use, components from China and India where it can do so. That offloads the work that specialized workshops would have to do. Look on that as a bonus. There is reason to believe that Russia can continue military production of anything it produces even if it were totally isolated and did not have allies such as India and China to draw from. Not knowing the capacity of the specialized workshops, and not knowing how much of the Soviet military infrastructure was preserved and in fact upgraded since the political collapse of the USSR, is a concern. Even the CIA does not seem to have much of a solid grip on that nowadays. We know they exist, but we cannot quantify the qualitative assessment that is involved. Keeping in mind that the Russians learned the hard way, during the Soviet era, about constrained supply and ongoing "sanctions". Putin and Patrushev are both old KGB men who know that side of the problem quite well, coming from the previous era and it is entirely unthinkable that the Russian regime, under their direction, failed to maintain and upgrade the specialized workshops under their control. So you do not have large factories, as you do in China, cranking out toys for civvies in massive quantities, while pushing military hardware out the back door hush hush. That is a very Chinese thing, and Russia is very different. In Russia you have a secret, well hidden, state owned and state run, military workshop producing what the military production line needs and nothing for the civvies who are told there is nothing for them and nothing to see there. They have to buy their toys from China or wherever else, same as North Americans tend to have to do. We have to assume, unless very solid and significant evidence comes forward from Western intel agency sources, that Russia is entirely capable of manufacturing anything military that it knows how to make and will continue to be able to do so, within its unique and very secretive military industrial model. A model definitely derived from the Cold War era and capable of thwarting Cold War constraints in respect to its specific capabilities. Though keep in mind that Russia has advanced technically, by a huge leap. That does not imply that Russia would choose to build its newer designs rather than reverting to older designs, for production. Older designs can be produced much faster, and are less strain on the specialized workshops which are certain to be capable of the new designs as well. Even Russians do not design and prototype something that they have no ability to build. That is another bit o media bullshit that is playing into the Russian game and it is mostly likely exactly that, merely bullshit that makes the Russians look much weaker than they are. Something the Russians prefer to appear to be for obvious reasons. If that belief as to Russian military complex incapacity and weakness is perpetuated and believed then Ukraine allies will prove much more reluctant to act and will not act quickly enough as to providence, and that definitely serves the Russian purpose. Remember that the Russians are masters at media manipulation and a lot of what we see that appears in the media is a product of that manipulation, devised to serve Russian purpose. The Russians as inept, incapable, near to being destroyed, is far from the most probable truth, but it does serve Russian interests to make Russia appear to be something far less than it is. Make a Siberian tiger look like a mouse, and then the tiger takes the prey is a very real part of the game.

[@bjornh4664]

Nice wall of text. tl;dr

[@irenec2863]

That was an interesting read. But, if russia is so self-sufficint, why does russia obtain weaponry from other like-minded countries?

[@natalieturko4808]

Spoken like a true Russian propagandist. The fact remains that Russia has invaded a sovereign, peaceful country that does NOT belong to Russia, and is engaged in a brutal, illegal, and immoral war of aggression. This is nothing to be proud of. It is barbarous and shameful.

[@phillee2814]

@@irenec2863 Because the "production" they commit to paper takes the same form as the demands - paper. Then the maker blames the shipper and the shipper blames the receiver for not getting them all to where they are needed. They are very good at that game - what do you think paid for all those superyachts and foreign villas? On paper, they were supposed to be the second-strongest army in the world. Right now, a declaration of war by Andorra or San Marino would tip them over the edge. Sark, Guernsey or the Isle of Man joining in would create mass hysteria. The old Russian saying comes to mind "As long as they pretend to pay me, I will pretend to work". The Russians lead the world in one thing - telling the boss what he wants to hear, irrespective of the true facts. They even have more than one word for it - "враньё (Latinised to vranyo)" and "туфты́ (no Latin equivalent, but meaning to cheat on a quota of bureaucratic requirements)". That and barbarity, of course.

[@irenec2863]

@@phillee2814 Thank you for explaining that. From what the world has seen from russia, makes perfect sense.

[@jimmychoo8907]

Lol russian gay

[@isla25]

No, just filthy scum orcs.

[@jimmychoo8907]

@@isla25 I understand but they are also gay petarass

[@Brandonhayhew]

Both sides in this war committed war crimes

[@hicsunt1589]

This full scale invasion has been started by russia. They simply shoud have remained at home. Welcome to Ukraine!

[@joelgaas858]

These series of terrorussians atrocities must be aired in UNSC

[@StudSnob]

Sad thing is Ukraine is the same. War is hell. May Both sides start respecting the geneva convention

[@waynesworld227]

More lies by the elves