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You can't make this up, if true: RU soldiers ask Ukraine police for fuel ! (Original Post)
steve2470
Feb 2022
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Pachamama
(16,887 posts)1. Did they say "Da" and give them Diesel mixed with Coolant?
GreatShakes66
(79 posts)2. Similar to the story we saw about Georgian officials....
...telling Russian ship to fuck off. Which makes me wonder. Hopefully it is true.
Deuxcents
(16,353 posts)3. These two have been terribly misinformed
About Ukraine. Maybe they thought they would be welcomed as liberators. Other stories of captured soldiers say they thought it was a military exercise and did not even know where they were
steve2470
(37,457 posts)4. I have read that some of the troops were told they were going to the Donbas region, not Kiev nt
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)5. Exactly, they are brainwashed putzes.
mn9driver
(4,428 posts)6. It's possible that they believed they would be welcomed.
Putin paints a picture of a Ukraine run by drug addicted Nazis. It could be that some of these young conscripts actually believe what they are being fed.
cbabe
(3,551 posts)7. Propaganda works whatever the source or country. Challenge is un-brainwashing.