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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUkrainian soldier who said "Russian warship, go fuck yourself!" -- has survived Russian captivity
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Ukrainian soldier Roman Hrybov who famously told a Russian warship, Russian warship, go fuck yourself! has survived Russian captivity and been given award For services to Cherkasy region upon returning home.
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7:41 AM · Mar 29, 2022
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Ukrainian soldier Roman Hrybov who famously told a Russian warship, Russian warship, go fuck yourself! has survived Russian captivity and been given award For services to Cherkasy region upon returning home.
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7:41 AM · Mar 29, 2022
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Ukrainian soldier who said "Russian warship, go fuck yourself!" -- has survived Russian captivity (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 2022
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Why in the world would the Russians have released him as long as the war was going on?
Chainfire
Mar 2022
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Chainfire
(17,308 posts)1. Why in the world would the Russians have released him as long as the war was going on?
Talk about shooting yourself in your propaganda foot.
Nevilledog
(50,687 posts)2. Right?
drray23
(7,587 posts)3. because him and his colleagues were exchanged for Russian pows.nt.
Chainfire
(17,308 posts)4. Had I been the Russian in charge, you could have found this man, 40 years from now, known only by
number, still chained to his shovel in a coal mine in Siberia. There is no way that I would have ever let the Ukrainians have the chance to make hay from his notoriety . Perhaps the Russians are really just stupid...
Quakerfriend
(5,417 posts)5. Perhaps, the Russians never knew who among those captured said it. n/t
TomSlick
(11,035 posts)6. Putin is a damned fool for taking on such people.
Slava Ukraini!