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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,757 posts)
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 03:51 PM Mar 2022

Zelenskyy warns Russian soldiers to not believe their commanders 'when they tell you that you still

have a chance in Ukraine'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reiterated his message to Russian soldiers that they should not believe their commanding officers.

"Do not believe your commanders when they tell you that you still have a chance in Ukraine," he said in a Wednesday address. "Nothing is waiting for you here. Except for captivity, except for death."

"You take our lives and give yours," his address continued. "And we know — we have communications interception — that your commanders already understand everything."

Zelenskyy's stern warning comes just days after a scathing New York Times report that said Russian soldiers on the front lines in Ukraine were not told they would be going into war.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/zelenskyy-warns-russian-soldiers-not-144523817.html

Ukranian psy-ops.
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Zelenskyy warns Russian soldiers to not believe their commanders 'when they tell you that you still (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2022 OP
So many young Russian men will never have a full life... Omnipresent Mar 2022 #1
Offer them citizenship and passports underpants Mar 2022 #2
! JudyM Mar 2022 #3
the year is 2022 onethatcares Mar 2022 #4
Yeah musclecar6 Mar 2022 #5
"we have communications interception" explains a lot. L. Coyote Mar 2022 #6
Zelenskyy knows his media... Wounded Bear Mar 2022 #7
They thought Ukrainian forces would see those multiple lines of tanks and run away Warpy Mar 2022 #8
If he keeps sending his commanders to the front Phoenix61 Mar 2022 #9

onethatcares

(16,162 posts)
4. the year is 2022
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 04:40 PM
Mar 2022

and they're dying for some dickwaving guy with a lot of houses and a big ass boat.

they must have been taught in the DeVos school of learning.

Warpy

(111,163 posts)
8. They thought Ukrainian forces would see those multiple lines of tanks and run away
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 06:54 PM
Mar 2022

It was a massive miscalculation. Now they have 2 choices: totally destroy the country and take temporary possession that will be marked by a strong resistance bleeding them dry until they leave; or negotiate a neutral Ukraine, declare victory, and leave.

The former option would involve pulling all the massed troops away from the Baltic states and Finnish border (where he's also been doing a lot of weenie waving over the last 4 years or so) and using them to flatten Ukraine while crushing his hopes of grabbing all those Baltic sea ports again. He might be just wigged out enough to do this but one wonders if his commanders would follow the orders.

If he takes the second option, he will be eating crow but he'll come out of this as a great Russian leader.

And no one inside his military out outside his country will ever believe a word he says.

Phoenix61

(16,993 posts)
9. If he keeps sending his commanders to the front
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 08:00 PM
Mar 2022

lines he won’t have any left. They don’t seem to be fairing very well there.

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